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| Murillo, The Crucifixion, circa 1675. Click to enlarge. |
Fernando Ortega gives a deeply moving performance of the well-known hymn from Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
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| The Crucifixion, oil sketch by Murillo, ca. 1675. Click to enlarge. |
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.--Isaiah 53:7
The late, great American soprano Jessye Norman sings the poignant spiritual at Carnegie Hall in 1990:
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