Ave Virgo gloriosa - Richard Dering, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
'Ave Virgo gloriosa'
From the album ‘A Double Celebration’
Composer Richard Dering
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Ave Virgo gloriosa
In 1617 Richard Dering was organist to the convent of English nuns in Brussels, and in that year published his first collection of Cantiones sacrae, from which this graceful motet is taken. Its simple, vivid expression of the text, without much contrapuntal elaboration, shows the influence of the new Italian Baroque style which Dering’s compatriots in England were perhaps slower to embrace.
LYRICS:
Ave Virgo gloriosa,
Favo mellis dulcior,
Mater Dei gloriosa,
Stella sole clarior;
Tu es illa speciosa,
Qua nulla est pulchrior,
Rubicunda plus quam rosa,
Lilio candidior.
(Hail glorious Virgin,
Sweeter than honey in the comb;
Glorious Mother of God,
Brighter than the sun;
You are the fair one,
None more beautiful,
Redder than the rose,
Whiter than the lily.)
(Anonymous medieval poem)
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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