Carmina Burana (Anon.11-13th c.) - CB 34: Deduc, Syon

New London Consort, Philip Pickett, dir.
Music from Carmina Burana, Vol. IV.

Carmina Burana, meaning "Songs from Beuern" in Latin, is a manuscript of religious and profane songs based on poems, plays and dramatic texts describing the catholic church in satyrical and critical means. They were mainly composed by students and clergymen between the 11th and 13th centuries, in Latin, and German and French venacular. Fragments which have been recovered indidate a large amount of works were composed during the 12th century. The manuscript was discovered in 1803 in the Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern.

Deduc, Sion, uberrimas
velut torrentem lacrimas!
nam qui pro tuis patribus
nati sunt tibi filii,
quorum dedisti manibus
tui sceptrum imperii, fures et furum socii
turbato rerum ordine
abutuntur regimine
pastoralis officii.

Ad corpus infirmitas
capitis descendit,
singulosque gravitas
artus apprehendit,
refrigescit caritas,
nec iam se extendit
ad amorem proximi;
nam videmus opprimi
pupillum a potente,
nec est qui salvum faciat
vel qui iustum eripiat
ab impio premente.

Vied, Deus ultionum,
vide, videns omnia,
quod spelunca vispillonum
facta est Ecclesia,
quod in templum Salomonis
venit princeps Babylonis
et excelsum sibi thronum
posuit in medio!
sed arrepto gladio
scelus hoc ulciscere!
veni, iudex gentium,
cathedras vendentium
columbas evertere!
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Zion, let your tears run Like a river;
For those born your children
To succeed your patriarchs,
lnto whose hands you have given
The sceptre of your power,
Are thieves and thieves' associates.
They have overthrown aIl order
And abuse the duties
Of their pastoral office.

The head' s sickness
Infects the body.
The disease takes hold
Of each limb in turn.
Charity is chilled
And does not stretch
To love of one's neighbour.
For we see the orphan
Persecuted by the powerful,
And there is no-one to save him
Or to snatch the just
From the clutches of the wicked.

Behold, a God of vengeance!
Behold, you who see aIl things!
The Church has become
A den of robbers.
The Prince of Babylon
Has entered Solomon's temple,
And set up his exalted throne
In the Holy of Holies!
Snatch up lhy sword,
Avenge this blasphemy!
Come, mankind's Judge,
Overtum the stalls
Of the dovesellers.


Performers: Catherine Bott (soprano), Michael George (baritone), Chorus: Tessa Bonner (soprano), Sally Dunkley (soprano), Andrew King (tenor), Allan Parkes (baritone), Simon Grant (bass), Frances Kelly (harp, rote), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Pavlo Beznosiuk (vielle, rebec), William Lyons (recorder), Catherine Latham (recorder),
gittern), Paula Chateauneuf (gittern), Stephen Henderson (bells, nakers, tabor, tambourine), Clifton Prior (tabor), Stephen Jones (vielle, rebec), Philip Pickett (recorder, symphony), David Tosh (dulcimer)

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Tags:

• CB 34
• Deduc Syon
• Carmina Burana
• medieval
• middle-ages
• New London Consort
• Philip Pickett
• Catherine Bott
• Michael George
• Andrew Lawrence-King