Palestrina: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Julian Podger, Monteverdi Choir)

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526[1] 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina became famous through his output of sacred music.[2] He had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony.

Alma Redemptoris Mater or, in English, "Loving Mother of our Savior," is one of four liturgical Marian antiphons (the other three being: Ave Regina caelorum, Regina coeli and Salve Regina), and sung at the end of the office of Compline. Hermannus Contractus (Herman the Cripple) (1013 - 1054) is said to have authored the hymn based on the writings of Ss. Fulgentius, Epiphanius, and Irenaeus of Lyon. It is mentioned in "The Prioress's Tale", one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Formerly it was recited at compline only from the first Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification (February 2),
Latin
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli
Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

English
Loving Mother of our Savior, hear thou thy people's cry
Star of the deep and Portal of the sky!
Mother of Him who thee made from nothing made.
Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid:
Oh, by what joy which Gabriel brought to thee,
Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• christmas
• adagios
• alma
• redemptoris
• mater
• julian
• podger
• monteverdi
• choir

[tommyberlioz]

Simply wonderful - stunning performance from 'The Monterverdis', as always. Which CD is this from?

[aNGLICANcHOIR92]

@tommyberlioz Christmas Adagios.

[1classicliberal]

I think that this particular song is in the documentary '9 Days That Changed the World'

which, if you havn't seen, well you should its absolutely breathtaking

[redeemerer]

et redemptoris non placet

[racc1024]

@theflossie100 same here

[theflossie100]

Only just discovered this. Completely took my breath away and reduced me to tears!!

Thank you for uploading it.

[EdinburghG]

absolutely stunning, many thanks for sharing this.

[SuperLinot]

sehr schön!!!!!

[mozartbg]

Pierluigi cosa potremo ascoltare quando saremo in Paradiso? La Tua Musica è più meravigliosa di quella degli angeli!

Pierluigi what will can listen when we'll be in Heaven ? Your Music is more wonferful than angel's !

Your italian devote

[clairebertin1]

Vraiment magnifique