Before Abraham was, I AM

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view all sheet music, August 2006, THE I AM SAYINGS OF JESUS

the first in a series of 8 motets for one to eight voices by Antony Pitts, commissioned by the Edington Music Festival Association - duration: c.4'00

For a one-off fee, a score of each motet - or of the whole series - is available with a unique licence to print unlimited copies for local/personal use (i.e. for your church, your choir, your college/school, your home). Following payment by credit card, a personalized pdf will be created and emailed to you.

more information on the complete motet cycle The "I AM..." Sayings of Jesus

recorded by TONUS PEREGRINUS on Hyperion CDA67668;
first performed at The Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy and broadcast on Choral Evensong, BBC Radio 3 on 23 August 2006, conducted by Jeremy Summerly


	THE GRAMOPHONE "His is a compositional voice of real personality and imagination (no surprise to those of us who have admired Pitts's work as a truly original producer at BBC Radio 3)....new music that has immediate appeal without ever relaxing into the 'easy' or the saccharine" THE INDEPENDENT "a composer with a special love for all manner of dizzying textural pile-ups and naughty harmonic contradictions..." INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW "it is enormously encouraging that every bar of his music is eminently singable....he is, undoubtedly, a serious and committed composer" THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "remarkable ways with music"

1. Before Abraham was, I AM
I AM that I AM.
I AM; be not afraid. (Alleluia)
Even [the same] that I said unto you from the beginning.
I AM one that bear witness of Myself, and the Father that sent Me beareth witness of Me.
...if ye believe not that I AM, ye shall die in your sins.
When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I AM, and I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father hath taught Me, I speak these things.
If ye continue in My word, [then] are ye My disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free..
Amen, amen, I say unto you, If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day: and he saw [it], and was glad.
Amen, amen, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.
(Exodus 3:14; John 6:20; 8:25b,18,24b,28,31-32,51,56,58)

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