This is a very robust Pentecost anthem, and I would say a good deal better than Tallis’s more we’ll-known “If Ye Love Me” (nothing against it, just not as good).

Here is a much earlier English composer doing a Pentecost motet, a magical and mysterious style of composition I have yet to really wrap my mind around. Utterly captivating.

“Where is the Josquin, John?” you undoubtedly ask. Here:

Almost an unfathomable gap separates all these previous ones from this one, which is centuries earlier and a different universe of sound.

What list of Pentecost music would be complete without Messiaen? Possibly the wildest piece he ever wrote for organ (besides maybe the Eyes in the Wheels Ezekiel one). But as usual Messiaen cuts through the sentimental bullshit and terrifies you.

It’s incredible to think that the same Pentecost tune inspiring composers in 13th c would be in Durufle’s setting in the 20th:

And Protestants would use the chant too. One of my favorite Bach chorale preludes, because it has a humor and funk to it that befits a very Lutheran understanding of Pentecost.