Christe, adoramus te - Monteverdi, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, La Nuova Musica
3. Christe, adoramus te
From the album ‘The Sacred Flame’
Composer Claudio Monteverdi
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
Chamber Orchestra La Nuova Musica
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Christe, adoramus te
This devotional motet was published in 1620 in a collection issued by Monteverdi’s former pupil
from Mantua days, Bianchi. The collection comprised 31 motets: 24 by Bianchi himself, one by Losio, and six by Monteverdi, whose contributions may well have been recently written for the great Venetian religious festivals. The motet is headed ‘Nella elevatione di N.[ostro] Signore’, meaning it is to be sung at the elevation of the host during mass. The text is proper to the feasts of the Holy Cross (3 May and 14 September), especially important occasions in the Venetian calendar after 1617: in that year a relic of what was held to be the Holy Cross was found by workmen excavating in S. Marco.
LYRICS:
Christe, adoramus te, et benedicimus tibi, quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
Domine, miserere nobis.
(Antiphon at Feasts of the Holy Cross)
Christ, we worship and bless thee, because by thy holy Cross thou hast redeemed the world. O Lord, have mercy upon us.
The Sacred Flame
The theme of this album is the marvellous wealth of sacred music which was created in continental Europe out of the ferment of the age of Reformation.
“…The Sacred Flame is a fascinating, impressive compendium of liturgical choral music…” The Independent
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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