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Pangamus Nerio

Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595), Apostle of Rome and Founder of the Oratorian Congregation, was profoundly convinced that “there is in music a mysterious and might power to stir the heart with high noble emotion and an especial fitness to raise it above sense to the love of heavenly things”. He desired his followers to “rouse themselves to the contemplation of heavenly things by means of musical harmony”. The Pangamus Nerio is the Vesper Hymn of Saint Philip. The music was composed for the Tercentenary of the Feast in 1895. It was included in a 1979 recording in Rome of the Birmingham Oratory Choir for a number of reasons. First, it was most fitting for it to be sung in the Chiesa Nuova, Saint Philip’s own church in Rome. Second, it was thought to be opportune to perform it for the Italian audience with the added flavour of its being sung by the Birmingham Oratory Choir for whom it had been composed in 1895 by William Sewell, their organist at that time. Third, it is most charming: a piece of Victorian baroque. It is what Sir Thomas Beecham would have called “a lollipop” - and it is loved by us all. Francis V. Hayward Director of Music at the Time Candlemas 1980