Hymne à la Vierge - Pierre Villette, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
15. 'Hymne à la Vierge'
From the album ‘Hail! Queen of Heaven’
Composer Pierre Villette
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
O toute belle Vierge Marie
Votre âme trouve en Dieu
Le parfait amour.
II vous revêt du manteau de la Grâce
Comme une fiancée
Parée de ses joyaux.
Alleluia, alleluia,
Je vais chanter ta louange, Seigneur
Car tu as pris soin de moi,
Car tu m’as enveloppée du voile de 1’innocence.
Vous êtes née avant les collines
O sagesse de Dieu,
Porte du Salut;
Heureux celui qui marche dans vos traces
Qui apprête son coeur
A la voix de vos conseils.
Alleluia, alleluia,
Je vais chanter ta louange, Seigneur,
Car tu m’as faite, avant le jour,
Car tu m’as fait précéder le jaillissement des sources.
Avant les astres Vous étiez présente,
Mère du Createur
Au profond du ciel;
Quand Dieu fixait les limites du monde
Vous partagiez son coeur
Etant à 1’oeuvre avec lui.
O toute belle Vierge Marie.
(Roland Bouhéret)
(O fairest Virgin Mary, your soul finds the perfect love in God. He clothes you with the mantle of
grace, like a bride adorned with her jewels. Alleluia, alleluia, I will sing your praise, Lord, for you
have cared for me, you have wrapped me in the veil of purity.
You were born before the hills were made, O wisdom of God, gate of salvation. Happy is the
man who follows in your footsteps, who makes his heart ready to hear the voice of your
counsels. Alleluia, alleluia, I will sing your praise, Lord, for you created me before the day, before
the bubbling of the streams. You were there before the stars were made, Mother of God, in the heights of heaven; when God decreed the boundaries of the world, you were there in his heart and with him in his handiwork. O fairest Virgin Mary.)
Hymne à la Vierge
This is one of a set of seven unaccompanied motets, clearly related to the sound-world of Poulenc, yet with a melodic charm and harmonic piquancy all of its own.
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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