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3: Hymns as Poetry: Edmund Spenser’s Faire is the heaven

3: Hymns as Poetry: Edmund Spenser’s Faire is the heaven

Update: 2024-11-10
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Hear staff from Westminster Abbey as they reflect on the context and the meaning of popular Christian hymns and anthems that came from poetry.  



In this episode, sub-organist of Westminster Abbey Matthew Jorysz talks through how poetic lines about heaven and angels were turned into a double-choir anthem in Faire is the heaven.  




Listen to the full track, and the rest of the album recorded by the Choir of Westminster Abbey.  
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3: Hymns as Poetry: Edmund Spenser’s Faire is the heaven

3: Hymns as Poetry: Edmund Spenser’s Faire is the heaven

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