Episode 11. O Bone Jesu - a Mystery in a Da Vinci code
Sunday, 18th March 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser compares two Scottish settings of O Bone Jesu. Robert Carver’s version, written exactly 500 years ago, is for 19 voices and full of secret symbolism about God and Man, that relates to Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawings of the perfect human. James MacMillan’s recent setting of the same words is a deeply-felt contemporary mystical invocation of the name of Christ.
Episode Playlist
- Robert Carver - O Bone Jesu
Cappella Nova/Alan Tavener
(ASV Gaudeamus) - James MacMillan - O Bone Jesu
The Sixteen
CD An Eternal Harmony (CORO)
