Searching for Paradise
The Listening Service joins the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Civilisations season to sound the divine in music.
The Listening Service investigates music's divine journeys as part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Civilisations season.
Humanity has used music to commune with the sacred for as long as we have been human: from the caves of Chauvet, tens of thousands of years ago, to the churches, temples, and synagogues of today, we have sung and hymned and played our connection with our God(s).
Something else has happened in modern Western society: as organised religion has waned, a cult of music has developed, in which we don't just use music to worship, but worship music and musicians as carriers of a divine spark. With the help of Keith Howard, Emeritus Professor of Music at SOAS and The Reverend Lucy Winkett, Tom explores how music has sounded the sacred and itself become sacred.
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Chant Chamanique
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Jewish Liturgical Music
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Gustav Holst
I Vow to thee My Country
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass (BWV.232) in B minor: Part 4 - Sanctus
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists.- ARCHIV.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor K.626 - Lacrimosa dies illa; Domine Jesu
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms: Part I
Performer: Toronto Festival Singers. Performer: CBC Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Igor Stravinsky.- CBS.
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Judith Weir
Nunc Dimittis
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Ale Ile (for Egungun)
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Raag Bhatiyar
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Afternoon Prayers
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Antifona from Officum sancti Severi
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Paravi lucernam Christo meo
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Offertorio from Feria VI stacio ad sanctum Vitalem
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Mi Shesoso nisim
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Psalmodie bouddhique, pompΒe
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Hicaz Ayini III. Selam
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Maulah Ali Maulah Ali (Traditional Sufi Qawwali)
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Tenores su cuntrattu de Seneghe: Gosos
Performer: Unidentified.- ARC.
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Pachyu Nghachhya
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV80: opening
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass (BWV 232)in B minor, Part 4; Sanctus
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Viderunt Omnes
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