Sunday 8 May 2011

Libera nos I & II : John Sheppard



John Sheppard's  sublime, luminous settings of 'Libera nos.'

Sheppard (who died a few weeks before Elizabeth I's coronation)  is here writing in the older polyphonic, pre-reformation style, before musical and visual beauty in the service of faith became highly suspect for (at least) a couple of generations of our national life.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Anonymous comments will not be published