Justorum animae - Orlande de Lassus, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
Justorum animae
From ‘Lighten our Darkness’
Music for the close of day
Composer Orlande de Lassus
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Justorum animae
Lassus, the most prolific and cosmopolitan composer of the Renaissance, was successively choirmaster at the church of St John Lateran in Rome and maestro di cappella at the Bavarian court in Munich, greatly admired throughout Europe for his compositional mastery. Justorum animae, first published in a collection of Lassus’s motets in 1582, is of an exceptional beauty and tranquillity, unusual in that it is freely composed, not based on any pre-existing chant.
LYRICS:
Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt, et non tanget illos tormentum mortis.
Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, illi autem sunt in pace.(Wisdom 3, vv. 1–3)
(The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, but they are in peace.)
Lighten our Darkness
The service of Compline has inspired many incredibly beautiful compositions and this collection gathers together 18 of the many lovely a cappella choral motets written to adorn the evening worship of the church. Composers include Byrd, Guerrero, Rachmaninov and Sheppard, alongside such less well-known masterworks as Rheinberger’s Abendlied and the four great Marian motets of Victoria.
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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