Omnes de Saba venient - Jacob Handl, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
4. 'Omnes de Saba venient'
From the album ‘Images of Christ’
Composer Jacob Handl
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Omnes de Saba venient
Handl's compositions, highly regarded in his own time, were mostly Latin sacred pieces. 'Omnes de Saba venient' (1586) comes from the first of four volumes of motets covering the church's year. Its opening, with a treading bass, seems to suggest the stately procession of the three kings.
LYRICS:
Omnes de Saba venient, aurum et thus deferentes, et laudem Domino annunciantes.
Alleluia.
(Gradual for the Feast of the Epiphany)
(All they from Saba shall come, they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall show
forth the praises of the Lord. Alleluia.)
Images of Christ
Around the figure of Christ there has grown up over the centuries a body of choral literature that can only be described as among the most remarkable in western civilization. The music of this recording, all for a cappella choir, is grouped loosely according to the themes of its texts (The Coming of Christ, Words of Christ, The Passion of Christ, Resurrection and Ascension, Christ in the Eucharist), drawing together composers as far apart in time and space as 11th-century France; 20th-century Russia and America. The aim is not a liturgical reconstruction, nor an historical survey, but rather a journey of the imagination.
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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