Description
The choral parts for three or four singers at first respond at length a cappella, evoking the disarray of the apostles, then come together in an impressive crescendo calling upon the Spirit to come down. Then, from the heights of the nave, comes the chorus "Be comforted", preceding an unexpected intervention by the orchestra, soon to accompany in all its vastness the descent of the Holy Spirit, in a triumphant ensemble.
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