Laudi alla Vergine Maria - Giuseppe Verdi, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
9. 'Laudi alla Vergine Maria'
From the album ‘Hail! Queen of Heaven’
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
Vergine madre, figlia del tuo Figlio,
umile ed alta più che creatura,
termine fisso d’eterno consiglio,
tu se’ colei che 1’umana natura noblitasti sì,
che’l suo Fattore non disdegnò di farsi sua fattura.
Nel ventre tuo si raccese 1’amore,
per lo cui caldo nell’eterna pace
così è germinato questo fiore.
Qui se’ a noi meridiana face di caritate,
e giuso, in tra i mortali, se’ di speranza fontana
vivace.
Donna, se’ tanto grande e tanto vali,
che qual vuol grazia, ed a te non ricorre,
sua disianza vuol volar senz’ ali.
La tua benignità non pur soccorre a chi dimanda,
ma molte fiate liberamente al dimandar precorre.
In te misericordia, in te pietate, in te magnificenza,
in te s’aduna quantunque in creatura e di bontate.
Ave.
(Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321)
Virgin mother, daughter of your Son,
humble and exalted above all beings,
constant vessel of eternal counsel.
You are she who so ennobled human nature,
through whom His Creator did not disdain the
incarnation.
In your womb was love rekindled,
from whose warmth, in eternal peace,
this flower did germinate.
You are to us the brightest torch of charity,
and amongst mortals a bubbling fountain of
hope.
Lady, your greatness and worth are such,
that to seek for grace without coming to you
would be like trying to fly without wings.
Your graciousness not only succours those in
need,
but also frequently freely anticipates our desires.
In you there is mercy, pity and magnificence,
reunited in you in flesh and in spirit.
Hail.
(Translation by Paul Gordon)
Laudi alla Vergine Maria
This piece, simple and chaste in expression, was written for four solo voices, but is more usually - and possibly more effectively - performed chorally.
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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