The works in ‘Between Heaven and Earth’ use tunes of plain origins, religious and popular, to reflect an intimate harmony between ‘art’ and ‘common’ experience.

The ancient Welsh tunes in ‘Household Music’ were appropriated by hymn composers specifically to join familiar experience with religious expression.

Similarly, Ives uses hymn tunes, ubiquitous in his childhood, to express an exuberant union of divine and mundane.

Mexican composer Villa-Lobos shows the emotional immediacy of folk melodies to inspire transcendent moments in everyday life.

Finally, Respighi transforms ancient chant, once so ordinary, into a dazzling journey of striving for spiritual communion while bound to this world.