Alma Redemptoris Mater - Gregorian chant, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
1. 'Alma Redemptoris Mater'
From the album ‘Hail! Queen of Heaven’
Gregorian Chant
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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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.
(Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
(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.)
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.
Hail! Queen of Heaven
This recording, made in the architecturally and acoustically glorious setting of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral by the 28 mixed voices of the Cambridge Singers, gathers together 21 examples of the extraordinary wealth of choral music inspired by the Virgin Mary, from Gregorian chant to the 20th-century sounds of Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, Pierre Villette, Igor Stravinsky and Giles Swayne.
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 1983) 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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