Great post. While Romantic-era sacred music isn't great, the works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Steinberg, and Gretchaninov are incredible and can compare favorably with sacred choral music from any era. Steinberg's Holy Week masterpiece is especially interesting because it was dormant for 90 years:
Great post. While Romantic-era sacred music isn't great, the works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Steinberg, and Gretchaninov are incredible and can compare favorably with sacred choral music from any era. Steinberg's Holy Week masterpiece is especially interesting because it was dormant for 90 years:
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573665
I agree that the East has kept Beauty in higher honor than the west. I'll definitely be checking out these composers!
Studying Bach is similar to studying scripture.
Every run through, you grasp a deeper layer of meaning.
All great art is. And it connects to other great art (it is not art in a vacuum)
Each year, I grow more and more fond of Gregorian chant...
Exactly, it has depth. It is like a ladder which is unending.