Ola Gjeilo: Unicornis Captivatur / SPCC SMVC @ World Choir Games Auckland 2024

SPCC SMVC 2324 WORLD CHOIR GAMES 🩵🦋
Our choristers participated in the World Choir Games 2024 and achieved remarkable results. We were named the Champion in Category C3 - Secondary School Choirs with a score of 93.13 points. We also attained Second Place with a Gold Medal in Category C19 - Contemporary Music - Mixed Voices, garnering 94.75 points.
Congratulations, SMVCers!


About the piece … 🎵💭
Unicornis Captivatur is an energetic, early music-inspired piece with a lyrical middle section, written in 2001. The colorful text is part of a compilation of medieval chants called the Engelberg Codex, discovered at the Swiss Engelberg monastery in the 1980s. For the English translation of the text, please visit https://olagjeilo.com/sheet-music/cho....

Unicornis Captivatur

Unicornis captivatur,
Aule regum presentatur
Venatorum laqueo,
Palo serpens est levatus,
Medicatur sauciatus
Veneno vipereo.

Alleluia canite,
Agno morienti,
Alleluia pangite,
Alleluia promite
Leoni vincenti.

Pellicano vulnerato
Vita redit pro peccato
Nece stratis misera,
Phos fenicis est exusta,
Concremanturque vetusta
Macrocosmi scelera.

Alleluia canite…
Idrus intrat crocodillum,
Extis privat, necat illum,
Vivus inde rediens;
Tris diebus dormitavit
Leo, quem resuscitavit
Basileus rugiens.
Alleluia canite…


More about our WCG journey! 🇳🇿🪽
C3 - Secondary School Choirs:
Nils Lindberg - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day:    • Nils Lindberg: Shall I Compare Thee to a S...  
譚天樂 - 沒有沒有傷口的宇宙 (Alex Tam - No Woundless World):    • 譚天樂：沒有沒有傷口的宇宙 (Alex Tam - No Woundless Wor...  
Ola Gjeilo - Unicornis Captivatur:    • Ola Gjeilo: Unicornis Captivatur / SPCC SM...  
Ko Matsushita - Karimatanu Kuicha (狩俣ぬくいちゃ):    • Ko Matsushita: Karimatanu Kuicha (狩俣ぬくいちゃ)...  

C19 - Contemporary Music - Mixed Voices:
Warren Lee - No Place in Our World:    • Warren Lee: No Place In Our World / SPCC S...  
廖梓丞 - 信 (Jason Liu - I believe):    • 廖梓丞: 信 (Jason Liu - I believe) / SPCC SMVC...  
Ivo Antognini - Gloria in Excelsis:    • Ivo Antognini: Gloria in Excelsis / SPCC S...  
Ko Matsushita - Japanese Game (ことばあそびうた):    • Ko Matsushita: Japanese Game (ことばあそびうた) / ...  

Performed by SPCC SMVC 2324
Conducted by Apollo Wong

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