Their symphonic form is the only one worth considering.

They are eloquent enough without the aid of voices, for their charm penetrates.

Unlike the _Creation_ and the _Seasons_ they do not demand extraordinary means of execution, and nothing is easier than to give them.
The opera houses are closed on Good Friday, and it used to be the custom to give evening concerts, vaguely termed "Sacred Concerts," because their programmes were made up wholly or in part of religious music.

This good custom has disappeared and with it the opportunity to give the public such delightful works as the _Seven Words_, and so many other things which harmonize with the character of the day.
At one of these Sacred Concerts, Pasdeloup presented on the same evening the _Credo_ from Liszt's _Missa Solemnis_ and the one from Cherubini's _Messe du Sacre_.

Liszt's _Credo_ was received with a storm of hisses, while Cherubini's was praised to the skies.