“British Polyphony” • The Best 55 Seconds In Music!
The paradigmatic English sonority can only be described as “haunting.” There’s nothing else quite like it.
“A much greater source of anxiety to Us is the style of action of those who maintain that liturgical worship should shed its sacred character, who foolishly say we should substitute for sacred items & furnishings ordinary common things in daily use.” —Pope Saint Paul VI (14 Oct 1968)