Here is pure joy. Everything in it exults in the beauty of creation and the goodness of God. Its composer signed all his manuscripts “Soli Deo Gloria,” that is, “To God alone be the glory,” and this piece testifies to that.
Only over four minutes long, it opens a door to infinity. Performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Temple University Choirs, this is “Cum Sancto Spiritu,” Bach’s setting of the closing words of the Gloria from the Mass in B minor.
