Sacred Heart (Ubi Caritas III) is a setting of the second stanza from the three-stanza Ubi Caritas text. I set the first in 1999 (Ubi Caritas) and the third in 2012 (Ubi Caritas II: Through Infinite Ages).

While Ubi Caritas II: Through Infinite Ages partly played around with some of the material from my first Ubi Caritas, Sacred Heart (Ubi Caritas III) is completely independent from the other two, content-wise, and also deploys a string quartet. (Ubi Caritas and Ubi Caritas II: Through Infinite Ages were written for a cappella choir.)

With all three works now published, the set is complete. And while each one of them is an independent work, they were also written with the potential in mind of being performed in succession or spread across a concert programme/recording.

Ola Gjeilo