Tenor (Hope): I do not fear the grave’s darkness Alto (Fear): I fear indeed the grave’s darkness Tenor (Hope): and hoped that my savior should not be torn away. Alto (Fear): and mourned that my savior should be torn away. Both: Now my heart is full of comfort, and if an enemy is infuriated, IContinue reading “Conquer in God”
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Only a Slumber
Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulcher: and saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place. Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the sepulcher: and he sawContinue reading “Only a Slumber”
Alleluia!
During Eastertide, the Church’s Marian hymn of choice is the Regina Caeli: Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia; Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia, Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia: Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. (Queen of heaven, rejoice, alleluia; the Son you merited to bear, alleluia, has risen as he said, alleluia. Pray to God for us, alleluia.) JustContinue reading “Alleluia!”
Barbarity Vanquished
In this marvelous cantata, Barbara, dira, effera, Jan Dismas Zelenka explores the roots of Easter joy in the horror of our Lord’s Passion: Though the sound here is a bit muffled, the power of this performance by Delphine Galou and Collegium 1704 cannot be impeded. That befits the message conveyed: that the barbarity of man,Continue reading “Barbarity Vanquished”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 