Having had Barber’s setting of this for voice and piano recently, here is a choral setting of James Agee’s text by the American composer Morten Lauridsen.
The work forms part of his 2005 choral work Nocturnes, written for the American Choral Directors Association’s Brock Commission. It is the third of four movements.
Byron Adams wrote (for the work’s first recording in 2007 by Polyphony under Stephen Layton):
With the Nocturnes (2005) Lauridsen undertook a particularly difficult formal challenge: to compose an integrated choral cycle that was simultaneously a triptych while allowing each of the panels to be performed separately.
The final panel of this triptych is a heartrendingly lovely interpretation of James Agee’s famous poem Sure on this shining night. In this evocation of the quiet consummation of a summer night – for both the opening and closing movements of the Nocturnes express differing degrees of aestival* exultation – the luminous sonorities of the piano surround the intertwining voices with a halo of mellow resonance.
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67580-B.pdf
* aestival means ‘of the summer’
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