Very Searching Peter Dickinson's 'The Judas Tree' - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... a notable performance ...'

I remember this powerful work from its performances in 1965, when I was a colleague of Peter Dickinson; it has since lost none of its ability to grip. Perhaps the twelfth disciple did indeed hang himself from a Judas tree, that strange phenomenon which puts forth its purple flowers before producing any leaves. For most of the work Judas is masked, supine on a bier before the altar, and silent while main characters in the crucifixion drama play out their parts, and a Nazi commandant fulminates against non-Aryan subversives including the Jew, Jesus.

This performance of March 1967 comes from Washington National Cathedral, which does its best to imitate the seats of our own archbishops...

PETER DICKINSON

UNITED KINGDOM

HERITAGE RECORDS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CHORAL MUSIC