Donald Burrows
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179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Donald Burrows’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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which is very complicated, because as done by Jennings in the libretto, it's how beautiful are the feet of them, referring back to the chorus, because it's referring to the company of the preachers going out, how beautiful are the feet of them.
And I think in Dublin, someone said to him, you know, that bit of Isaiah, you could use how beautiful are the feet of him to refer to Messiah.
And so what he does in Dublin is to set a subtly different text, how beautiful are the feet of him.
And I think that's one of the things that Jennings doesn't like.
He said, that's not what I meant.
But also I think that if people don't know the work, you get this myth that it might end with the Hallelujah Chorus.
It's true.
It doesn't, you know.
And in many ways, in terms of composition...
The best arias are in part three.
Well, certainly I know that my redeemer live up.
And also, If God Be For Us, which often is, if you look at the actual musical composition, what he's writing, it's an extremely good piece.
He actually takes, as it were, well, actually, both of those are interesting because whereas the operatic Da Carpo aria is,
A, B, you know, as he's working from biblical texts, the two big arias there are three verse texts.
They're in three sections.
And everyone moves on from the previous verse.
You know, that's something I think that doesn't happen in any of the other arias.
There's something...
Something different.
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