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Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen: St John Passion
It was a lover and his lass (Finzi)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
The constant challenge of this thread is to try to get it back on to sacred/religious choral works. And just as you come up with something, someone else nips in first .... (I'll shelve 'A God and yet a Man' for another time )
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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