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Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea – 1488
A haj még a szentség jele is lehet? Erre választ kaphatunk Szent Ágnes vértanú legendájából, amely szerepel Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea (Arany legenda) című, 1488-ban megjelent ősnyomtatványban is, melyet a KönyvTÁRlaton, február 16-án mutatunk be.
A több mint 500 éves kötetről Bíró Csilla, az OSZK Régi Nyomtatványok Tárának munkatársa beszél majd. A különleges kivitelezésű, kézzel kifestett fametszeteket tartalmazó vaskos kötet, amely saját korában nagy népszerűségnek örvendett, számos mártír és szent életét adja közre.
zene: Mattia Vlad Morleo: Passando
published: 01 Feb 2017
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Jacobus de Voragine
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Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.
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MS Codex 434, Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend)
University of Pennsylvania PhD graduate Courtney Rydell introduces Curator for Digital Research Services Dot Porter to University of Pennsylvania MS Codex 434, an Italian translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea. A digital facsimile of this manuscript is available at http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486604
published: 06 Jun 2013
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Jacobus de Voragine
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Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine (* 1228 oder 1229 in Varazze bei Genua oder in Genua; † 13.Juli oder 14.Juli 1298 in Genua; alternative Namensformen: Jacobus a Voragine, Jacobus de Varagine, Jacobus da Voragine, Iacopo da Varazze, Jakob von Vorago) war Erzbischof und kirchenlateinischer Schriftsteller.Er verfasste die im Spätmittelalter weitverbreitete Sammlung von Heiligenleben Legenda aurea.
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published: 31 May 2016
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TM 597 - IACOBUS DE VORAGINE, Legenda aurea (excerpts) and Sermones de tempore (seven sermons)
This small personal collection of excerpts was unbound until modern times and protected only by a few leaves from another manuscript. Practical and portable manuscripts such as this one must have existed in far greater numbers during the Middle Ages than the numbers that survive indicate. Careful analysis of the excerpts included here in a manuscript copied not long after Jacobus de Voragine’s death (and possibly during his lifetime) would be a fascinating case study of the use and reception of two of most widely disseminated texts from the High Middle Ages.
published: 03 Aug 2021
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published: 07 Feb 2014
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What is ADVENT by Blessed Jacobus de Varagine 1260 A.D
The Holy Advent Season Explained by the Great Medieval Monk, Bishop and Saint Jacobus de Voragine in his book "The Golden Legend" written in 1260 A.D. Why did Christ Jesus come? Why does the liturgical year start with Advent? What are the signs of the End Times? How is Antichrist going to Act? What will happen at the Last Judgement? So much to think about and contemplate about the meaning of Advent thanks to this great Dominican monk of the Ages of Faith.
#Advent #Antichrist #CatholicChurch
published: 01 Dec 2019
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Jacopo da Varagine
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Jul 17 - Saint Alexius of Rome - Unknown Beggar - 0404 - Rome
From The Golden Legend Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275.
published: 17 Jul 2017
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Spellewauerynsherde
Spellewauerynsherde
Akira Rabelais
1) 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7
And spiride in to the face of hym
an entre of breth of lijf.
2) 1390 Gower Conf. II. 20
I can noght thanne unethes spelle
that I wende altherbest have rad.
3) 1440 Promp. Parv. 518/2
Wawyn, or waueryn, yn a myry
totyr, oscillo.
4) 1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208 b/2
He put not away the wodenes of his flessh
with a sherde or shelle.
5) 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr.
Glasse 125 Within which draw an other
Circle, a finger bredth distant.
6) (Gorgeous curves lovely fragments
labyrinthed on occasions entwined charms,
a few stories at any longer sworn to gathered
from a guileless angel and the hilt edges
of old hearts, if they do in the guilt
of deep despondency.)
7) 1671 Milton Samson 1122
Add thy Spear, a Weavers beam,
and seven-time...
published: 27 Aug 2019
1:41
Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea – 1488
A haj még a szentség jele is lehet? Erre választ kaphatunk Szent Ágnes vértanú legendájából, amely szerepel Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea (Arany legenda) c...
A haj még a szentség jele is lehet? Erre választ kaphatunk Szent Ágnes vértanú legendájából, amely szerepel Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea (Arany legenda) című, 1488-ban megjelent ősnyomtatványban is, melyet a KönyvTÁRlaton, február 16-án mutatunk be.
A több mint 500 éves kötetről Bíró Csilla, az OSZK Régi Nyomtatványok Tárának munkatársa beszél majd. A különleges kivitelezésű, kézzel kifestett fametszeteket tartalmazó vaskos kötet, amely saját korában nagy népszerűségnek örvendett, számos mártír és szent életét adja közre.
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https://wn.com/Jacobus_De_Voragine_Legenda_Aurea_–_1488
A haj még a szentség jele is lehet? Erre választ kaphatunk Szent Ágnes vértanú legendájából, amely szerepel Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda Aurea (Arany legenda) című, 1488-ban megjelent ősnyomtatványban is, melyet a KönyvTÁRlaton, február 16-án mutatunk be.
A több mint 500 éves kötetről Bíró Csilla, az OSZK Régi Nyomtatványok Tárának munkatársa beszél majd. A különleges kivitelezésű, kézzel kifestett fametszeteket tartalmazó vaskos kötet, amely saját korában nagy népszerűségnek örvendett, számos mártír és szent életét adja közre.
zene: Mattia Vlad Morleo: Passando
- published: 01 Feb 2017
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Jacobus de Voragine
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Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.
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Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.
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- published: 31 Aug 2016
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MS Codex 434, Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend)
University of Pennsylvania PhD graduate Courtney Rydell introduces Curator for Digital Research Services Dot Porter to University of Pennsylvania MS Codex 434, ...
University of Pennsylvania PhD graduate Courtney Rydell introduces Curator for Digital Research Services Dot Porter to University of Pennsylvania MS Codex 434, an Italian translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea. A digital facsimile of this manuscript is available at http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486604
https://wn.com/Ms_Codex_434,_Legenda_Aurea_(Golden_Legend)
University of Pennsylvania PhD graduate Courtney Rydell introduces Curator for Digital Research Services Dot Porter to University of Pennsylvania MS Codex 434, an Italian translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea. A digital facsimile of this manuscript is available at http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486604
- published: 06 Jun 2013
- views: 4126
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Jacobus de Voragine
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Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine (* 1228 oder 1229 in Varazze bei Genua oder in Genua; † 13....
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Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine (* 1228 oder 1229 in Varazze bei Genua oder in Genua; † 13.Juli oder 14.Juli 1298 in Genua; alternative Namensformen: Jacobus a Voragine, Jacobus de Varagine, Jacobus da Voragine, Iacopo da Varazze, Jakob von Vorago) war Erzbischof und kirchenlateinischer Schriftsteller.Er verfasste die im Spätmittelalter weitverbreitete Sammlung von Heiligenleben Legenda aurea.
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Jacobus de Voragine
Jacobus de Voragine (* 1228 oder 1229 in Varazze bei Genua oder in Genua; † 13.Juli oder 14.Juli 1298 in Genua; alternative Namensformen: Jacobus a Voragine, Jacobus de Varagine, Jacobus da Voragine, Iacopo da Varazze, Jakob von Vorago) war Erzbischof und kirchenlateinischer Schriftsteller.Er verfasste die im Spätmittelalter weitverbreitete Sammlung von Heiligenleben Legenda aurea.
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Urheber Info: Iacopo : da Varazze
Lizenz: Public domain
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✪Text verfügbar unter der Lizens CC-BY-SA
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- published: 31 May 2016
- views: 668
1:44
TM 597 - IACOBUS DE VORAGINE, Legenda aurea (excerpts) and Sermones de tempore (seven sermons)
This small personal collection of excerpts was unbound until modern times and protected only by a few leaves from another manuscript. Practical and portable man...
This small personal collection of excerpts was unbound until modern times and protected only by a few leaves from another manuscript. Practical and portable manuscripts such as this one must have existed in far greater numbers during the Middle Ages than the numbers that survive indicate. Careful analysis of the excerpts included here in a manuscript copied not long after Jacobus de Voragine’s death (and possibly during his lifetime) would be a fascinating case study of the use and reception of two of most widely disseminated texts from the High Middle Ages.
https://wn.com/Tm_597_Iacobus_De_Voragine,_Legenda_Aurea_(Excerpts)_And_Sermones_De_Tempore_(Seven_Sermons)
This small personal collection of excerpts was unbound until modern times and protected only by a few leaves from another manuscript. Practical and portable manuscripts such as this one must have existed in far greater numbers during the Middle Ages than the numbers that survive indicate. Careful analysis of the excerpts included here in a manuscript copied not long after Jacobus de Voragine’s death (and possibly during his lifetime) would be a fascinating case study of the use and reception of two of most widely disseminated texts from the High Middle Ages.
- published: 03 Aug 2021
- views: 35
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How to pronounce Jacobus de Voragine (Italian/Italy) - PronounceNames.com
Audio and video pronunciation of Jacobus de Voragine brought to you by Pronounce Names (http://www.PronounceNames.com), a website dedicated to helping people pr...
Audio and video pronunciation of Jacobus de Voragine brought to you by Pronounce Names (http://www.PronounceNames.com), a website dedicated to helping people pronounce names correctly. For more information about this name, such as gender, origin, etc., go to http://www.PronounceNames.com/Jacobus de Voragine
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- published: 07 Feb 2014
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46:16
What is ADVENT by Blessed Jacobus de Varagine 1260 A.D
The Holy Advent Season Explained by the Great Medieval Monk, Bishop and Saint Jacobus de Voragine in his book "The Golden Legend" written in 1260 A.D. Why did ...
The Holy Advent Season Explained by the Great Medieval Monk, Bishop and Saint Jacobus de Voragine in his book "The Golden Legend" written in 1260 A.D. Why did Christ Jesus come? Why does the liturgical year start with Advent? What are the signs of the End Times? How is Antichrist going to Act? What will happen at the Last Judgement? So much to think about and contemplate about the meaning of Advent thanks to this great Dominican monk of the Ages of Faith.
#Advent #Antichrist #CatholicChurch
https://wn.com/What_Is_Advent_By_Blessed_Jacobus_De_Varagine_1260_A.D
The Holy Advent Season Explained by the Great Medieval Monk, Bishop and Saint Jacobus de Voragine in his book "The Golden Legend" written in 1260 A.D. Why did Christ Jesus come? Why does the liturgical year start with Advent? What are the signs of the End Times? How is Antichrist going to Act? What will happen at the Last Judgement? So much to think about and contemplate about the meaning of Advent thanks to this great Dominican monk of the Ages of Faith.
#Advent #Antichrist #CatholicChurch
- published: 01 Dec 2019
- views: 218
1:29:49
Jacopo da Varagine
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- published: 08 Jun 2016
- views: 3134
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Jul 17 - Saint Alexius of Rome - Unknown Beggar - 0404 - Rome
From The Golden Legend Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275.
From The Golden Legend Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275.
https://wn.com/Jul_17_Saint_Alexius_Of_Rome_Unknown_Beggar_0404_Rome
From The Golden Legend Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275.
- published: 17 Jul 2017
- views: 396
38:07
Spellewauerynsherde
Spellewauerynsherde
Akira Rabelais
1) 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7
And spiride in to the face of hym
an entre of breth of lijf.
2) 1390 Gower Conf. II. 20
I can nog...
Spellewauerynsherde
Akira Rabelais
1) 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7
And spiride in to the face of hym
an entre of breth of lijf.
2) 1390 Gower Conf. II. 20
I can noght thanne unethes spelle
that I wende altherbest have rad.
3) 1440 Promp. Parv. 518/2
Wawyn, or waueryn, yn a myry
totyr, oscillo.
4) 1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208 b/2
He put not away the wodenes of his flessh
with a sherde or shelle.
5) 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr.
Glasse 125 Within which draw an other
Circle, a finger bredth distant.
6) (Gorgeous curves lovely fragments
labyrinthed on occasions entwined charms,
a few stories at any longer sworn to gathered
from a guileless angel and the hilt edges
of old hearts, if they do in the guilt
of deep despondency.)
7) 1671 Milton Samson 1122
Add thy Spear, a Weavers beam,
and seven-times-folded shield.
http://akirarabelais.com/
https://boomkat.com/
https://akirarabelais.bandcamp.com/
Spellwaveringshard, LP version released on Boomkat 2017
PARIS TRANSATLANTIC
In case you're wondering how that title should be pronounced, try "spell wavering shard" – Texas-born laptop whizkid Akira Rabelais' fondness for Middle English is also apparent in the titles of the album's seven tracks, each of which originates in definitions culled from the Oxford English Dictionary, which he describes as one of his favourite books. "1382 Wyclif. Gen. ii.7" (track one) refers to the year in which John Wyclif, who was responsible for the first complete version of both Old and New Testament in English, was excommunicated, and its full title incorporates a quotation from the Book of Genesis. The "Glower" of track two (as printed on the CD sleeve: "1390 Glower Conf. II.20") should in fact be "Gower", referring as it does to the poet John Gower, whose Confessio Amantis was one of the first epic poems in Middle English. "Promp. Parv." (track three, "1440 Promp. Parv. 518/20) is the standard abbreviation for Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum, lexicon Anglo-latinum princeps, one of the first important Latin / English lexicons dating from, yes, 1440. 1483 (track four, "1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2") was the year printer William Caxton published the first English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend or The Lives of the Saints. 1559 was the year of publication of William Cuningham's The Cosmographical Glasse, a treatise on mathematical methods for depicting the universe, hence "1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125". After the sixth track, which revels in the name "(Gorgeous curves lovely fragments labyrinthed on occasions entwined charms, a few stories at any longer swrn to gathered from a guileless angel and the hilt edges of old hearts, if they do in the guilt of deep despondency)" – actually a pretty good description of what goes on in the piece –, the final "1671 Milton Samson 1122" refers to Milton's Samson Agonistes, published in 1671 in a volume also containing the four books of Paradise Regain'd. The quotation "add thy Spear / A Weavers beam, and seven-times-folded shield" indeed comes from line 1122.
On the opening track a single vocal line slips gently into a kind of canonic imitation of itself as a cloud of reverberant resonance drifts in from afar. It's alarmingly simple and direct, yet headscratchingly complex at the same time – try humming along and see if you can manage it. "1390 Glower Conf. II. 20" is, at least at the outset, more straightforward, but Rabelais' filters work in mysterious ways, giving the illusion that time is slowing down, and erasing memory along the way. This curious and unnerving sensation continues in the third track "1440 Promp. Parv. 518/20", and on the centrepiece of the album, the 21-minute "1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2", time seems to grind to a halt altogether, the voices gathering into an eerie microtonal cloud that recalls the Ligeti choral music ("Requiem" and "Lux Aeterna") used to such memorable effect in 2001 – and Rabelais' music is every bit as mysterious and beautiful as Kubrick's inscrutable black obelisk. After this, the simplicity of the brief (44 second) "1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125" is a masterly touch, clearing the air perfectly for track six, the most melodically and harmonically daring of Rabelais' "seven sisters", in which his treatments dimple the surface of the music with wider, more expressive intervals. The closing "1671 Milton Samson 1122", apart from a brief reprise of the song that had featured in track two (transposed a semitone down, and not the same recording, apparently), floats inside the reverb cloud.
Real or imaginary, clear or confusing, mundane or ethereal, ancient nightmare or modern dream, Spellwauerynsherde is one of the most original and beautiful musical works of recent times.
DW
https://wn.com/Spellewauerynsherde
Spellewauerynsherde
Akira Rabelais
1) 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7
And spiride in to the face of hym
an entre of breth of lijf.
2) 1390 Gower Conf. II. 20
I can noght thanne unethes spelle
that I wende altherbest have rad.
3) 1440 Promp. Parv. 518/2
Wawyn, or waueryn, yn a myry
totyr, oscillo.
4) 1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208 b/2
He put not away the wodenes of his flessh
with a sherde or shelle.
5) 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr.
Glasse 125 Within which draw an other
Circle, a finger bredth distant.
6) (Gorgeous curves lovely fragments
labyrinthed on occasions entwined charms,
a few stories at any longer sworn to gathered
from a guileless angel and the hilt edges
of old hearts, if they do in the guilt
of deep despondency.)
7) 1671 Milton Samson 1122
Add thy Spear, a Weavers beam,
and seven-times-folded shield.
http://akirarabelais.com/
https://boomkat.com/
https://akirarabelais.bandcamp.com/
Spellwaveringshard, LP version released on Boomkat 2017
PARIS TRANSATLANTIC
In case you're wondering how that title should be pronounced, try "spell wavering shard" – Texas-born laptop whizkid Akira Rabelais' fondness for Middle English is also apparent in the titles of the album's seven tracks, each of which originates in definitions culled from the Oxford English Dictionary, which he describes as one of his favourite books. "1382 Wyclif. Gen. ii.7" (track one) refers to the year in which John Wyclif, who was responsible for the first complete version of both Old and New Testament in English, was excommunicated, and its full title incorporates a quotation from the Book of Genesis. The "Glower" of track two (as printed on the CD sleeve: "1390 Glower Conf. II.20") should in fact be "Gower", referring as it does to the poet John Gower, whose Confessio Amantis was one of the first epic poems in Middle English. "Promp. Parv." (track three, "1440 Promp. Parv. 518/20) is the standard abbreviation for Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum, lexicon Anglo-latinum princeps, one of the first important Latin / English lexicons dating from, yes, 1440. 1483 (track four, "1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2") was the year printer William Caxton published the first English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend or The Lives of the Saints. 1559 was the year of publication of William Cuningham's The Cosmographical Glasse, a treatise on mathematical methods for depicting the universe, hence "1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125". After the sixth track, which revels in the name "(Gorgeous curves lovely fragments labyrinthed on occasions entwined charms, a few stories at any longer swrn to gathered from a guileless angel and the hilt edges of old hearts, if they do in the guilt of deep despondency)" – actually a pretty good description of what goes on in the piece –, the final "1671 Milton Samson 1122" refers to Milton's Samson Agonistes, published in 1671 in a volume also containing the four books of Paradise Regain'd. The quotation "add thy Spear / A Weavers beam, and seven-times-folded shield" indeed comes from line 1122.
On the opening track a single vocal line slips gently into a kind of canonic imitation of itself as a cloud of reverberant resonance drifts in from afar. It's alarmingly simple and direct, yet headscratchingly complex at the same time – try humming along and see if you can manage it. "1390 Glower Conf. II. 20" is, at least at the outset, more straightforward, but Rabelais' filters work in mysterious ways, giving the illusion that time is slowing down, and erasing memory along the way. This curious and unnerving sensation continues in the third track "1440 Promp. Parv. 518/20", and on the centrepiece of the album, the 21-minute "1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2", time seems to grind to a halt altogether, the voices gathering into an eerie microtonal cloud that recalls the Ligeti choral music ("Requiem" and "Lux Aeterna") used to such memorable effect in 2001 – and Rabelais' music is every bit as mysterious and beautiful as Kubrick's inscrutable black obelisk. After this, the simplicity of the brief (44 second) "1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125" is a masterly touch, clearing the air perfectly for track six, the most melodically and harmonically daring of Rabelais' "seven sisters", in which his treatments dimple the surface of the music with wider, more expressive intervals. The closing "1671 Milton Samson 1122", apart from a brief reprise of the song that had featured in track two (transposed a semitone down, and not the same recording, apparently), floats inside the reverb cloud.
Real or imaginary, clear or confusing, mundane or ethereal, ancient nightmare or modern dream, Spellwauerynsherde is one of the most original and beautiful musical works of recent times.
DW
- published: 27 Aug 2019
- views: 4104