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Posted on September 11, 2018

Joseph Haydn’s “Horseman” string quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3

[ youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8rdK0XpJoA&w=560&h=315%5D According to Misha Donat’s notes for the Saloman Quarter release of this quartet: The most famous among Haydn’s six quartets of 1793 is the last, in G…

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Posted on July 8, 2018

Chicken Words and Chicken Music : BBC Radio 3’s “Hey, Little Hen” – featuring Christina Rosetti, Edward Lear, Gary Whitehead, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Vaughan

I used to quite enjoy BBC Radio 3’s “Words and Music” programme on a Sunday evening. Driving through Northern Ireland allowed me to listen to it again after a bit…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018

#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,…

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Posted on March 30, 2018

“I thirst”

From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE FIFTH WORD I thirst. Our Lord continues to reveal His own condition, since He, after all, is the key to all…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

“Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother”

From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE THIRD WORD Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother. Our Divine Lord now turns, from the soul who at one bound…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”

https://youtu.be/kMbGWPaXX8Y From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s reflections on the Seven Last Words: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. In previous considerations we have studied the Life…

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Posted on March 30, 2018March 29, 2018

Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross: Introduction to reflections by R H Benson

For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…

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