Secondly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kzF2sgZpg wow.
I adore this. It really moves through, with the gorgeous "o bleib bei uns" part towards the end, with a good little chamber choir is completely and utterly stunning, there is almost a sort of hurt behind it, which I think is a vital component of all the best choral music, take "o for the wings" by mendelssohn, which easily reduces many people to tears, or allegri's miserere.
Rheinberger's Abendlied is stunning, something that you can almost hear whilst walking around an empty cathedral, but sounds equally wonderful ringing round a small victorian parish church with shocking acoustics, provided you have a choir with at least one good person for each part, and it will never fail to sound utterly stunning.
The version linked to are the cambridge singers, who are under the directorship of John Rutter, of whom I am not a fan, but this is a good version, I hope you find it as powerful as I do.
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