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Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum, K86: IVa. Ad tres virtutes hortationes: No. 1, Caritas by James O'Donnell album cover

Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum, K86: IVa. Ad tres virtutes hortationes: No. 1, Caritas

by James O'Donnell

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About "Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum, K86: IVa. Ad tres virtutes hortationes: No. 1, Caritas" by James O'Donnell

Stravinsky's 'Caritas' is a brittle, crystalline meditation on love—not soft, but severe and unyielding. O'Donnell teases out the motet's jagged counterpoint, each interval a small act of devotion. The music flickers between archaic ritual and modernist ice, a charity that feels earned through discipline, not sentiment.