Ave Regina caelorum - Gregorian chant, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
6. 'Ave Regina caelorum'
From the album ‘Hail! Queen of Heaven’
Gregorian Chant
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
Ave Regina caelorum,
Ave Domina angelorum:
Salve Radix, salve porta,
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:
Gaude Virgo gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa:
Vale, o valde decora,
Et pro nobis Christum exora.
(Antiphon of the BVM)
Hail, Queen of heaven,
Hail, Empress of the angels:
Hail, root and gateway
From which the light of the world came forth:
Rejoice, glorious Virgin,
Fair above all other:
Farewell, O most lovely one,
And pray for us to Christ.
Ave Regina caelorum
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 Ave Regina caelorum was sung from Candlemas to Holy Week 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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