Glorious Mystery 2: "Caelos ascendit hodie"

"Caelos Ascendit hodie ". Today he ascended into heaven. That uplifting motet for double choir is by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford , a composer little known outside the Anglo-Saxon world , but a towering figure in late Victorian England nevertheless."

A musical comment by Monsignor Philip Whitmore in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick

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