Talk:Sancta Civitas

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I created this page more to have a place to talk about the piece than to cover the piece in great detail. I just put down the bare bones that came to mind readily.

I know this was RVW's favorite among his choral works, but I for one find it maddeningly inconsistent. The beginning and the ending are terrific, no doubt about it, but the whole "Babylon-the-Great-is-fallen" business just goes on and on, in my view. There is also one passage (the last big climax of the work) where there are about a dozen measures as I recall that got re-written between the p-v score publication and the recordings, but I can't find any information on why the score hasn't been re-engraved, let alone published in an orchestral format. Wspencer11 14:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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