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| From 'Ode to Joy' a series of woodcuts by Ernst Barlach, 1927 |
A Daily Devotion written for St Stephen’s Rochester Row, where I have been on a placement this term.
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Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Christ on the Mount of Olives - Beethoven's only oratorio
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| Christ on the Mount of Olives by Giovanni |
In this, his 250th Anniversary year, please listen to Beethoven’s only oratorio – Christ on the Mount of Olives. Criticised by some for emphasizing Jesus’s humanity, for others it is precisely the vivid portrayal of Christ’s agony in the garden that connects the listener to the divine.
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