The Transcendency of Music

Imagine for a moment the number of notes, of variations in pitch and tempo of every combination possible and then on a blank music sheet appears a composition, originally handwritten with no mistakes, for orchestral instruments, choir and solo glorifying God with words from Psalm 117 and a prayer, quoted in Latin and in English below:

"Laudate Dominum omnes gentes;
Laudate eum, omnes populi.
Quoniam confirmata est
Super nos misericordia ejus.
Et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper.
Et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

"Praise the Lord, all nations;
Praise Him, all people.
For He has bestowed
His mercy upon us,
And the truth of the Lord endures forever.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever,
and for generations of generations.  Amen." [1]

The score can be seen here:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/5291/laudate-Dominum-Mozart-vepres-solennelles-KV339.  There a number or renditions.  The one I listen to is a recording conducted by Sir Colin Davis featuring Kiri te Kanawa as the soloist.  None of the uploads on Youtube to date is any good but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8BCGJ3mSrc is by far the relative best and the comment by a gym-buffed drewqq is noteworthy.  He is right,  Addidobelpassato's upload does sound a bit off at the beginning.

For those of you who are in a rush - and God knows your reasons and excuses - you can listen to Kathleen Battle hurry through it nicely to get it over with quickly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY_zGwyH54s even as Mozart's score called for "Andante [6/8] ma un poco sostenuto" [2] which to me means slow but not so slow that the listener would fall asleep in the middle of it nor so fast like Chopin's ["Minute"] Waltz, Opus 64, No.1 rendered perfectly by the unparalleled Evgeny Kissin at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJIdh0acWyw

Back on topic, I find the Laudate Dominum from Mozart's Vesperae solenne de confessore, KV 339 recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, conductor, to be among my top favorite classical pieces of all time and on par with the violin solo in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D major, Opus 123 recorded by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, conductor.  Both are in my humble opinion divinely inspired, for I cannot imagine any human is capable of rising unassisted so far above the mundanity of earthly existence to the upper reaches of spiritual clarity and going so far down to the absolute depth of honesty to seek reconciliation with the Truth.

[1] http://operalady.blogspot.com/2009/09/lucia-popp-laudate-dominum-mozart.html
[2] http://www.scribd.com/doc/5291/laudate-Dominum-Mozart-vepres-solennelles-KV339