Alma Redemptoris Mater - Gregorian Chant, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
'Alma Redemptoris Mater'
From the album ‘A Double Celebration’
Composer Gregorian Chant
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Alma Redemptoris Mater
This chant is believed to have been composed between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries - the anonymous work of monks or nuns in whose communities they adorned the daily worship and marked out the times and season. The Alma Redemptoris Mater was sung from Advent to Candlemas and would have been used to bring the daily Offices, especially Vespers and Compline, to a close.
LYRICS:
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli porta manes et stella maris, succurre cadenti
surgere qui curat populo: Tu quae genuisti, natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem: Virgo
prius et posterius Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere
(Kind Mother of the Redeemer, our open gateway to heaven and star of the sea, help your people and keep them from falling: you who gave birth to your holy Son, all creation marvelling: ever Virgin Mother, first hailed from the lips of Gabriel, have mercy on us sinners.)
(Gregorian chant)
A Double Celebration
A 55 track celebration to mark 30 years of the Cambridge Singers and the 70th birthday of John Rutter.
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1981) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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