Rob Harle # 20 Vox Caldera Choir

Rob Harle #20 Vox Caldera Choir

“Ave Christe Immolate” rises,

crystal voices carry us away

the choir exquisitely sweet;

no one notices the cold

no one notices the drab hall interior.

Cut to Bruckner’s “Christus Factus est”,

sonorous voices in perfect harmony

warm the cold winter afternoon;

the small audience in rapture

flowing with the Caldera Choir.

Trio Continentale enter,

“Opus 352” by Bohm cascades warmly

like diamonds in the sunlight;

violin – piano – cello

thrill the audience to a hallowed place.

Something sacred has happened,

entranced with these timeless masterpieces

written some five hundred years ago

I reflect on how much we’ve lost;

But feel a tenuous contentment

realising not all have carelessly dismissed the past

mindlessly ignoring these jewels of universal greatness.