Aeternum
Emma Kirkby & Anthony Rooley & Christopher Hogwood – Purcell: Evening Hymn, Z.193
«I cannot differentiate between tears and music»
«Man cannot live without support in space. But music annihilates space completely. The only art capable of bringing comfort yet it opens up more wounds than all the other music is the soundtrack of askesis. Could one make love after Bach? Not even after Handel, whose un- earthliness does not have a heavenly perfume. Music is a tomb of delights, beatitude which buries us.»
Aeternum
O! Emerald of the valley, art thou now my doom decreed.
Or dost thou burn, a mournful star, consuming me in fire?