Cardinal Newman as a Musician

Book Excerpt:...ven's Ninth Quartet and C minor Symphony, and the Allegretto of the Symphony in A.I cannot of that music rightly say, Whether I hear or touch or taste the tones, Oh, what a heart-subduing melody![23][Footnote 23: The Dream of Gerontius.]There was just that human element about it, so "deeply pathetic," which in the same way made him prefer Euripides to Sophocles, for all the latter's "sweet composure, melodious fulness, majesty and grace."[24] And here we may add, that as lat...