While searching my iTunes for recordings of the 16th-century Christmas carol “Gaudete” — which my grand-daughter had just discovered at school and was delighted by — I came across an old favorite, Rufus Wainwright’s “Gay Messiah” from Want Two (it’s an alphabetization thing). Hard to imagine two pieces of music more different in tone, beyond sharing (at some level) references to Christian beliefs.
As a bonus, the lyrics site I consulted has some fine non-native-speaker text.
(Note: what follows is both sexually explicit and sacrilegious.)
