Easter Music
E of the staples of Easter music has for many years been Stainer’s Cruci-. fixion. I’m afraid that this is a work whose music, as well as the composer’s use of words with a very strong bearing on the merely physical aspects of the Easter story, has never appealed to me. I was therefore very interested to hear Martin Shaw’s cantata The Redeemer broadcast on the Sunday before Easter by the Wesley Church choir. This is a work of which I had read much praise in the English press, and I found it on hearing all that it had been described. It is a refreshing composition, more straightforward than most modern choral works and its presentation by the choir, which I believe introduced the work to New Zealand, was wholly satisfying. The broadcasting of choral music from a church seems to present some difficulties to the microphone engineers, but. this performance came. over the air exceptionally well, the balance between choir and organ (under H.. Temple White) being particularly good, ™ is a work I want to hear again,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 11
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180Easter Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 11
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