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Happy St Patrick’s Day to all readers. A while back I blogged about the hymn known as St Patrick’s Breastplate or The Deer’s Cry . For the day, here is Arvo…
Having blogged lately about UCD Choral Scholars and their album of Irish and Scottish choral works, I have great pleasure to find they have a new album just out – Perpetual…
On this day in 1915 Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil was first performed. Back in 2013, I conceived of a grandiose plan that performances of this piece could be held contemporaneously…
The multi-denominational Christian Community of Taizé has had a deep influence on ecumenical approaches in Christianity, and also in accessible yet spiritually meaningful worship. The founder of Taizé, Brother Roger,…
I first encountered this piece of music in Terence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line”, in early scenes portraying the initially pacific encounter between US military scouts and the inhabitants of…
Is Sergei Prokofiev’s score to Alexander Nevsky, the Eistenstein tale of a heroic Russian unifier defeating a Teutonic foe which was naturally enough suitable propaganda for Stalin, the greatest soundtrack…
Holding the title of having recorded the best-selling Gregorian Chant album of all time, the Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos have been described as : The ensemble is not…
