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This is an extract from Stravinsky's Mass (Credo).

Stravinsky’s approach to the Creed feels embedded in his own experience of Sunday worship. If you’ve ever heard a congregation simply recite the Creed together in church, well, Stravinsky’s version sounds like a more musical version of that. It’s a gentle, communal expiration of deeply familiar words. There’s little hint that these lines capture the distilled essence of Christian faith; that every word is loaded with meaning. Stravinsky’s almost bland setting suggests that these passages are so engrained that they no longer need to be proclaimed with fanfares and organs. They just ‘are’.

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