Well, you may be right of course, but I would be surprised, the timing and the words used makes me understand that they don't had a full song recorded during the original studio session.
Mark McKenzie composed his music later than the movie was finished, as Mark McKenzie was the second musician to create the soundtrack for this film.
So he perfectly knew while creating it how long this song was intended to be sung for the movie, and I don't think he would have composed the music, lyrics, the orchestration, and made it recorded at double length than needed.
In addition, McKenzie wrote in April :
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Happy to announce that "Benedictus Deus" from "The Greatest Miracle" (El Gran Milgro) score is being expanded from 1:37 to 3:20 for a future release by the famed London Boys Choir LIBERA".
"Being expanded" means to me that there was work on it to make it longer, at moment of the message, April 2012.
The original recording was made in Winter 2010-2011, more than one year earlier. If a full song was recorded then, what would had been the need to "expand" it on April 2012 ?
I'm quite sure they don't had more than the original 1'39'' recording and some studio rushes, so the expanded song might be an interesting mixing of couplets repeated, music added a several parts, and so
If we continue in the hypothesis of Benedictus Deus being used on one of the coming CDs, being religiously oriented, wouldn't this song fits perfectly as the announced Bonus track for the "Ave Maria" new CD, more than on the "Song of life" ?
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