Suite of Unity - Henk van Lijnschooten

This suite in three parts has been commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Defense on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of NATO. The first part is a festive fanfare in which you can briefly recognize a fragment of Marc Antoine Charpentier's 'Te Deum', better known as the 'Eurovision Tune'. The second part is a solemn chorale using several short excerpts of folksongs. The third part uses motives from the different National Anthems of the sixteen NATO member states and ends with the hymn 'Dona Nobis Pacem', give us Peace.

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