Pender Music: Ave Maria

October 14, 2023

For Pender's offertory on August 6 2023 Brian Stevenson, Director of Music Ministries, played Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod version) on his harp. He was accompanied by Heidi Jacobs on the piano.

"Ave Maria" is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria, originally published in 1853 as "Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach".

The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of his The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1722. 

Watch the whole service at https://youtu.be/s_KMbck4o2c

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