MUSIC AT EASTER
S music for Easter Week, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is both inevitable and right. It was heard from 1YC on the Wednesday, and in view of the distance of time, it was to be hoped that we might have had the BBC recording of the St. John Passion later in the week. (But, on referring to The Listener, I see that 2YC had the good fortune to programme this for Good Friday.) Also predictable, and less essential, was the Good Friday music from Parsifal-twice. The Friday evening brought Stainer’s Crucifixion (from 1YC), which, for all its evident sincerity, is monumentally dull music. How evident this was in contrast with Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, which (in the admirable Griller recording) immediately followed! This "sumptuous and sombre music is of the very essence of Holy Week, an echo from the great, darkened, baroque cathedral of Cadiz, for. which it was originally designed, On the Saturday, as a kind of tailpiece, BBC Newsreel brought us the Benedictines chanting Tenebrae in Rome, the great bell of Cologne booming through a fog of distance, and a reminder of the Easter Fair in Paris.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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194MUSIC AT EASTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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