Tag: Christian music
For Christmas: Riu, Riu, Chiu with the King’s Singers, the Monkees and Massimo Marchese
Riu, Riu, Chiu is a rare example of a Christmas carol whose lyrics feature a rabid wolf: It was also performed by well known Early Music exponents The Monkees:
Piano minimalism from 1880 – Liszt’s “Via Crucis”, Reinbert de Leeuw
Liszt’s piano setting of his late work Via Crucis (originally for choir, soloists and organ) has many passages that sound extraordinarily like Satie or other much later exponents of minimalism. Wikipedia…
#GoodFriday – reflections on the #SevenLastWords by Robert Hugh Benson
I have posted Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, along with Haydn’s Seven Last Words Here is the Introduction “Father, forgive them,…
Séamus Sweeney 