Sancta Civitas

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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. The piece is based upon texts from the Revelation of St. John, as well as Taverner's Bible and other sources.

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