Duration: 4:00
Completed: 2011
Instrumentation: Baritone and Piano
These Anthems are composed on poems of the English poet Richard Crashaw.
Crashaw emerged from a time of great unrest between factions of
Christianity in England, and unlike contemporaries such as John Milton,
reflected the world that he saw in his work (thus, he is sometimes
called the only English Baroque poet). Crashaw's poems did not make
him well loved, though, and most contain a farrago of elements that
include at least one or two that would make them unwelcome in almost
any venue. Thus, how could I help but be fascinated by them?
II - Luke 11 "Blessed be the Paps which Thou hast sucked"
Suppose He had been tabled at thy teats,
Thy hunger feels not what He eats:
He'll have His teat ere long, a bloody one,-
The mother then must suck the Son.