“WHEN SIMPLICITY BECOMES BEAUTY”
The Sardinian composer’s work Mariano Garau It fully meets the needs of a choir wishing to make a fine impression without venturing into awkward or abstruse difficulties. The pieces are characterised by an often homorhythmic approach, based on a harmonic structure that is simple yet not trite, melodious yet not pedantic, accessible yet not predictable.
The attention paid to the words is very careful and meticulous, and so his music seems to spring directly from the Word and its intrinsic rhythm, achieving a harmonic completeness that perfectly complements the text.
The melodic lines are very singable, and not just those for the sopranos. This characteristic runs through all of Garau’s music, and is probably the key to his worldwide success!
Walter Marzilli
Holder of the Chair in Choral Conducting at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, and lecturer in conducting at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
