Who is this with garments gory

Who is this with garments gory. Arthur Cleveland Coxe* (1818-1896). From Coxe’s Halloween. A Romaunt. With lays meditative and devotional (privately printed, 1842; then Hartford, Connecticut, 1844). It is spectacular and dramatic rendering of Isaiah 63: 1-4: ‘Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?’ It is normally sung to the Welsh tune EBENEZER or TON-Y-BOTEL, which magnificently carries the questions (‘Who is this…?’ ‘Who is this…?’ ‘Wherefore…?’ ‘Who art thou…?’) and the answers (‘I, in righteous anger…’ ‘I, the mighty one to save’… ‘I am he with sprinkled raiment’). Benjamin Britten* used it in his harmonization of EBENEZER, with the title ‘Who is this in...

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