THE PASSION SONG

For Holy Week here is a duetto written by St. Alphonsus Liguori. This famous "Song of Jesus Passion" was composed by St. Alphonsus in 1760 on the occasion of his preaching the spiritual exercises in Trinity Church in Naples. The music was rediscovered in 1860 by a descendant of the Saint in the British Museum in London.

The composition is in two parts with a wonderful symmetry between the content and the meter of the music. The content is a souls encounter with Jesus on his journey to Calvary.

At first, from afar, the soul imagines the bloody drama of the divine Passion, and addresses the unjust judge Pilate reproving him bitterly. The soul then draws itself into the action, speaking lovingly with Jesus. What follows is a simple dialogue, a contest of love between creature and Creator, alternating the proof of one another love.

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