Crucifixion
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Last Sunday our principal reading in church was from John 3. For that reason the subject of this week’s post has been echoing round my head for the last few days: the setting of John 3.16-17 which forms the 9th movement of Stainer’s Crucifixion. Often dismissed as among the less fortunate outputs of a Victorian… Read more
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Hildegard von Bingen has featured on this blog before, and is not the first composer to have more than one piece considered. A single vocal line, and possibly an unfinished or incomplete idea, O cruor sanguinis is a short antiphon associated with the crucifixion. The short text reads: O cruor sanguinis qui in alto sonuisti,… Read more
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It is slightly cheeky of me to entitle my post this week with a movement title used in Petr Eben’s Job, discussed last week, while this week we are considering a different work entirely. Giant of contemporary classical music, and if anything even more so of music that might validly be considered theological, the Scottish… Read more
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