Palestrina - Jesu, rex admirabilis - Gardiner

High resolution and stereo sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXQuOQccCWA&fmt=18

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Jesu, rex admirabilis
Spiritual madrigal for 3 voices


In this recording:

The Monteverdi Choir,
John Eliot Gardiner
Soli Deo Gloria, 2006
Recorded in Gospel Oak, London, 6-8 May, 2005

A review about the recording:
http://www.solideogloria.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?id=56

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526-) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony.

Latin Text:

Jesu, rex admirabilis
et triumphator nobilis,
dulcedo ineffabilis,
totus desiderabilis,

mane nobiscum, Domine,
et nos illustra lumine,
pulsa mentis caligine,
mundum reple ducedine.

Translation (by Philip Ford):

Jesus, wondrous king
and noble conqueror,
ineffable delight,
wholly to be desired,

remain with us, Lord,
dispel the darkness of our minds
and enlighten us with your light,
fill the world with your sweetness.

Category:

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• Palestrina
• Jesu
• rex
• admirabilis
• Monteverdi
• Choir
• John
• Eliot
• Gardiner

[BandaSCN]

You know, there MUST be some kind of God, if men write this for him. That's not music, is pure pleasure...

[ericbelify]

Those were REAL composers of music

[starflicker79]

It. is. so. beautiful!!!! *speechless*

[serendipityify]

Why is the music in the wrong key?

[richardus]

@BandaSCN Amen brother. That's exactly what I was thinking. Oh, and I believe superman must exist, if men write lots of comics about him ;)

[mvdbergrede]

The only sound more beautiful than this piece of music is the sweet voice of our dear Lord Himself.

[LoverofLiszt]

I hate my church choir for not singing enough classic music. We only have one Ave Maria sung twice a year and that´s it. Tomorrow I´ll bring sheet music and propose this, Mozart´s Ave Verum Corpus and di Lasso´s two part Benedictus. Their too beautiful to ignore any longer.

[gr4l9um20b7o]

Today is in 2012, a long time had passed.

[gr4l9um20b7o]

這首曲告訴了我們，聲樂運用密集和聲所能造成的強度。

[GADAN4537]

bravo et merci

[mirrors1]

Admirabilis

[suffiice]

@Taenyr no prob :)