Amici del Canto - "Magnificat" (Finale - "Sicut Erat")

Amici del Canto perform the finale - "Sicut Erat" - of "Magnificat" by Italian composer, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) during the International Sacred Music Choir Festival in Rome. This is a sacred piece sung in four-part harmony (SATB) with our Chamber Orchestra.

It was performed at the Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome on 28th July 2006.

Music Director: Nigel Shaw.

LYRICS:
Sicut erat in principio
Et nunc et semper
Et in saecula saeculorum, Amen.

LATIN TRANSLATION:
As it was in the beginning
Is now and ever shall be
World without end, Amen.

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[ratishar]

is not from PErgolesi.. it is from DUrante

Anyway, it´s so beautiful..

tankhs 4 posting

[AmiciDelCanto]

Hi Ratishar, Thanks for your comments, much appreciated. The copy we sing from is the Walton Music Ltd edition which gives the composer to be GB Pergolesi. In the foreword it says: "Since no holograph exists, it is impossible to determine positively the composer of the work. However, the editors, after comprehensive research over a period of years, feel that the evidence is sufficient to conclude that the Magnificat is the work of Pergolesi". ......

[AmiciDelCanto]

..... We have to use Pergolesi as the composer because that is the authorship of our copy but I've seen recordings ascribed to Durante too so you could well be right. I guess it's one of things that are lost in the mists of time. Glad you like it anyway.

[goatsareus]

This is such a fantastic posting - it radiates light and joy. Beautiful!

[Marmalade000000]

Isn't "Sicut Erat" the last movement of Confitebor Tibi Domine?? Why is it also the last chapter in the Magnificat???

[norabatty22]

Gorgeous!

[doctorgino2]

I sang it with my choir... it is very nice

In my opinion the tenors are very low... you can hardly hear them

[MaBu888]

Sicu era 'n principio ed nunc ed sempre. secula secclorum. This is how it would have been in vulgar Latin (as spoken in the 5th century in Italy). My linguistic genous muaahahahahah.

[Jm4steam]

Excellent!!