Essential Classics

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With Sarah Walker. Including Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony (excerpt).

The Poetry of WH Auden on Radio 3
WH Auden
Horae Canonicae 
Auden's great poem Horae Canonicae was read on Radio 3 during Good Friday - April 6th 2007.

The Archbishop of Canterbury introduced each part of Horae Canonicae,. The poem, read by Tom Durham, contemplates Good Friday through the seven offices of the monastic day.

HORAE CANONICAE
IMMOLATUS VICERIT


Return to the notes on the poem

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