RE: Are you open to religious experiences?
December 18, 2014 at 2:10 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2014 at 2:13 am by Alex K.)
I don't quite buy the steady decline in "spiritual" inspiration after the renaissance. Granted, baroque holds a special place in my heart, something older I have listened to a trillion times: Monteverdi's Vespers. Mozart doesn't speak to me as much with exceptions like the requiem (unfinished, I know). I find Bruckner (e.g. Symphonies 5, 8) has a much more "religious" and monumental feel - he's the Symphony lover's Wagner. To me, Berg's violin concerto wins in that department, though. Beethoven can also elicit that feeling.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
