Samuel Barber - Prayers of Kierkegaard (4)

of this period. Barber once said when speaking about the piece, "One finds here three basic truths: imagination, dialectic, and religious melancholy. The truth Soren Kierkegaard sought after was a truth which was a truth for me." This quotation depicts his desire to show once and for all that he was a good Presbyterian and also that he could depict this through concise musical ideas, simplifying the texts. Prayers of Kierkegaard is an unequivocal religious statement that Samuel ...
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