Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Sancta Civitas (The Holy City) is an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Written between 1923 and 1925 it received its first performance in Oxford in May 1926 during the General Strike. Although its title is in Latin the libretto is entirely in English based upon texts from Revelation. The text is drawn from several translations including Taverner’s Bible. Late in life Vaughan Williams would call Sancta the favourite of his choral works.