Spem in alium nunquam habui - Thomas Tallis, Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
5. 'Spem in alium nunquam habui'
From the album ‘A Banquet of Voices’
Composer Thomas Tallis
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te, Deus Israel,
qui irasceris, et propitius eris, et omnia peccata hominum in tribulatione dimittis.
Domine Deus, Creator caeli et terrae, respice humilitatem nostrum.
(My hope has never been in any other than thee, O God of Israel,
thou who will be angry, and then show mercy, forgiving all the sins of troubled man.
Lord God, Creator of heaven and earth, look down in mercy upon our lowliness.
(Matin responsory, Sarum rite)
Spem in alium nunquam habui
A work, for forty voices, that was unlike anything else Tallis had ever written before, both in scale, resources, and sheer sound, the work that stands as his greatest masterpiece.
A Banquet of Voices
This recording is a celebration, and an exploration of some of the great wealth of choral music written for multiple choirs.
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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