Richard Moore, Rev. Dr. Barry Orford - Philip Moore: Via Crucis (2023) [Hi-Res]

Explore this premiere recording of Philip Moore’s Via Crucis, performed at Guildford Cathedral by organist Richard Moore, with Revd Dr Barry Orford.

“The via crucis – the way of the cross – is a devotional exercise which has its roots in the Via Dolorosa, the processional route in Jerusalem which symbolises the path Jesus trod on the road to Calvary. There is a long history of both spiritual and musical responses to the Via Dolorosa which begin with Franciscan re-imaginings across Europe and continue to the present day. Some notable examples include Marcel Durpé’s Le chemin de la croix, David Bowie’s Station to Station, Pope John Paul II’s Scriptural Way of the Cross (1991), and Eric Milner-White’s A Procession of Passion Prayers (1950). Philip Moore’s own setting sits as an important part of this long tradition of responding to the Via Dolorosa, and, in using some of the prayers from Milner-White’s 1950 publication creates a work which speaks to the future through the language of the past.” Philip Moore (Composer)