Video on demand: Purcell's Funeral Sentences

Name: On demand, Grieg Hall (Grieghallen): Purcell's Funeral Sentences
Director: Edward Gardner

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Mark Pullinger, 5th October

How does this work by Vaughan Williams, an agnostic who composed hymns and was inspired by church music, cast its spell over audiences?

chords which are achingly suspended even by the standards of Mahler’s Adagietto