Ave verum corpus - Orlande de Lassus, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
'Ave verum corpus'
From the album ‘A Double Celebration’
Composer Orlande de Lassus
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Ave verum corpus
Lassus’s treatment of this familiar Eucharistic text is serene and elegiac, with imaginative use of the six-voiced texture to create expressive interplay between high and low voices, and restrained word-painting at the words ‘unda fluxit sanguine’. The motet—which would assuredly enjoy wider renown were it not for Byrd’s and Mozart’s settings of the same text—was first published in a 1582 collection issued in Munich, and reprinted in the posthumous collection of 1604.
LYRICS:
Ave verum Corpus, natum
de Maria Virgine:
Vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine:
Cujus latus perforatum
unda fluxit sanguine.
Esto nobis praegustatum.
in mortis examine.
O dulcis, O pie,
O Jesu, Fili Mariae:
Miserere mei. Amen
(All hail, true Body, of the blessed Virgin born,
Which in anguish to redeem us did’st suffer upon the Cross;
From whose side, when pierced by spear, there
came forth water and blood:
Be to us at our last hour the source of
consolation.
O loving, O holy, O Jesu, thou Son of Mary,
Have mercy on me. Amen.)
(14th-century Eucharistic hymn of unknown authorship)
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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