Illuminare Jerusalem

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

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• chapel
• college
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• illuminare
• jerusalem
• weir
• judith
• boys

[bryancti]

Verse 2:

With angellis licht in legionis

thou art illuminit all about.

Three kingis of strange regionis

to thee are cumin with lusty rout.

All drest with dyamantis,

reverst with gold in every hem,

sounding attoneis [together] with a shout:

Illuminare Jerusalem.

[EvelynCor]

@bryancti Thank you so much!

[baldwalrus7]

Does anyone have the lyrics to this?

[EvelynCor]

I believe it is old Scottish/ Gaelic or English (?) mixed with Latin, from the Middle Ages.

[paleblueinvancouver]

Brilliant! When was this recording made? I would love to know the names of the altos so I can look for them on further recordings. (especially the bloke with the specs on at 0:54-1:00. His solo on Ubi Caritas was breathtaking).

[EvelynCor]

Hi there, I'm sorry I don't really know anything about this recording - I reposted this because the original upload was ???

Maybe someone else knows?

[bryancti]

Verse 3:

The regeand tirrant that in thee rang,

Herod, is exileit and his offspring,

The land of Juda that josit [held] wrang,

and rissin is now thy richtous king.

So he so mychtie is and digne, [worthy]

when men his glorious name does nem,

heaven, erd and hell makis inclyning;

Illuminare Jerusalem.

[MrWilito18]

Beautiful this makes me cry it's so beautiful

[elh666]

@chessie273 Yeah, that's him.

[oramihi]

Google doesn't turn up anything, but one site states that it's from a 15th century Scottish manuscript.

[hiroshi2020]

@EvelynCor

So, to add, it would be hard to find them.

A quick search on Google, though, you can find the english lyrics!