Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Aug 25, 20129:38Music

Gavin Bryars's mould-breaking 1971 score Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a work which came about almost accidentally, when Bryars found a recording of an elderly homeless man singing lines from a Victorian hymn. Cult...

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