In dulci Jubilo - Robert Lucas de Pearsall (arr.), John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
1. In Dulci Jubilo
From the album 'Christmas Night'
Arranger Robert Lucas de Pearsall
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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In Dulci Jubilo
According to legend angels sang In Dulci Jubilo to Heinrich Suso, the fourteenth-century German mystic. It quickly became popular and appeared in many collections. Robert Lucas de Pearsall made this classic choral arrangement in 1838.
LYRICS:
In dulci jubilo
Let us our homage shew;
Our heart’s joy reclineth
In praesepio
And like a bright star shineth
Matris in gremio.
Alpha es et O!
O Jesu parvule
I yearn for thee alway!
Hear me, I beseech thee,
O Puer optime!
My prayer let it reach thee,
O Princeps gloriae!
Trahe me post te!
Adam lay ybounden
O Patris caritas.
O Nati lenitas!
Deeply were we stainèd
Per nostra crimina;
But thou hast for us gained
Caelorum gaudia.
O that we were there!
Ubi sunt gaudia,
If that they be not there?
There are angels singing
Nova cantica,
And there the bells are ringing
In Regis curia;
O that we were there!
Christmas Night
The theme of the album - Christmas Night - is the birth of Christ, reflected in the words and music of twenty-two carols spanning more than six centuries. Some of these carols have long been widely known and loved; others have become so thanks to the annual Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge. But all of them focus on the central event of the Christmas story – the birth at Bethlehem – and on the characters in that story: the angels, the shepherds, the wise men, and the mother with her child.
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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