I will be taking a bit of a break after today’s post. If you want to listen to past music I’ve posted simply search on Sunday Morning Music and you’ll find a lot, or click on any Sunday on the calendar. That’ll do too.
It Is Well With My Soul, arr. Berent Wells
Voces Cordis, André van der Merwe, Conductor
Tamsin Jones: O Key of David
St. Martin’s Voices
Anna Lapwood: Drop Down Ye Heavens
The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College
Drop down ye heavens from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness.
Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people;
My salvation shall not tarry.
I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions.
Fear not, for I will save thee;
For I am the Lord thy God,
The holy one of Israel, thy redeemer.
Drop down ye heavens from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness.
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, arr. Taylor Scott Davis
VOCES8, Apollo5, VOCES 8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra
Josef Rheinberger: Kyrie
Stellenbosch University Choir; André van der Marwe, Conductor
John Taverner: O splendor gloriae
The Sixteen: Harry Christophers, COnductor
O splendor of glory and image of substance
God the Father almighty, Jesus Christ
Choose the only son of the same, live the spring of good
Redeemer of the world, savior and our God, hail
Glorious, Lord, is your majesty and wonderful works;
Thou hast made heaven and earth with all
What is in them creatures
By thy divine word thou hast made out of nothing;
Which most wisely disposed soon, for us
Whom thou didst form in thy image
That thou didst most graciously subdue all things
The disobedience of the protoplast had brought death
But how wouldst thou redeem the life of thy works
Of Mary the most humble virgin , Jesus, you took flesh:
From which you were conceived by the Holy Spirit
You were born God and man, your handmaid mother
She remained whole and a perpetual virgin
And when you endured a hard life for us, you ceased to be passionate
And torn by tortures, who did not sin
Bearing our crimes in your body
And washing the same with your most precious blood
Finally, the most infamous death, the most gentle lamb
You suffered and most cruel
From here to your father sweet sacrifice offered
You were afflicted for us poor sinners
Then on the third day
Raised from death to the heavenly father with glory
You were exalted to the highest, to sit at his right hand:
Then you gave us the holy paraclete
Who, as our heavenly doctrine, strengthens the breasts;
We beseech thee lowly, Amen
Zoltán Kodály: Jézus És A Kufárok (Jesus and the Traders)
USC Thornton Concert Choir; Cristian Grases, Conductor
(Mark 11: 15-18)
Thomas Tallis: O sacrum Convivium
The Mancunium Consort
O sacrum convivium
in quo Christus sumitur:
recolitur memoria passionis eius:
mens impletur gratia:
et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.
How holy this feast
in which Christ is our food;
his passion is recalled;
grace fills our hearts;
and we receive a pledge of the glory to come.
Orlande de Lassus: Clamaverunt ad Dominum
The Gesualdo Six
Clamaverunt ad Dominum in tribulatione sua,
et eduxit eos de necessitatibus eorum.
Statuit procellam ejus in auram,
et factae sunt fluctus ejus.
Et laetati sunt quia siluist,
et deduxit eos in portum voluntatis eorum.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out of their distress.
He made the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
Then they were glad because they were quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
Eriks Ešenvalds: O Salutaris Hostia
VOCES8
(Yes, you see 10 singers: the soloists are the new sopranos.)
O saving victim,
Who opens the gate of heaven:
Hostile wars press upon us,
Give strength, bring aid.
To the one and triune Lord,
May there be eternal glory,
Who gives us life without end,
In our heavenly homeland.
Amen.
