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Lamentations Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Timothy Brown — Miserere. Gregorio Allegri — Lamentations. Thomas Tallis — Stabat Mater. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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Gregorio Allegri (1581 - 1652) — Miserere mei Deus (c.1638)

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) — Lamentations

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594): — Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater dolorosa / Iuxta crucem lacrimosa / Dum pendebat Filius. // Cuius animam gementem / Contristatam et dolentem / Pertransivit gladius.  // O quam tristis et afflicta / Fuit illa benedicta / Mater unigeniti!  // Quae moerebat et dolebat, / Pia Mater, dum videbat / Nati poenas incliti.  // Quis est homo qui non fleret, / Matrem Christi si videret / In tanto supplicio?  // Quis non posset contristari, / Christi Matrem contemplari / Dolentem cum Filio?  // Pro peccatis suae gentis / Vidit Iesum in tormentis, / Et flagellis subditum.  // Vidit suum dulcem natum / Moriendo desolatum / Dum emisit spiritum.  //

Eja Mater, fons amoris / Me sentire vim doloris / Fac, ut tecum lugeam.  // Fac, ut ardeat cor meum / In amando Christum Deum / Ut sibi complaceam.  // Sancta Mater, istud agas, / Crucifixi fige plagas / Cordi meo valide.  // Tui nati vulnerati, / Tam dignati pro me pati, / Poenas mecum divide.  // Fac me tecum, pie, flere, / Crucifixo condolere, / Donec ego vixero.  // Juxta crucem tecum stare, / Et me tibi sociare / In planctu desidero.  // Virgo virginum praeclara, / Mihi jam non sis amara / Fac me tecum plangere.  // Fac, ut portem Christi mortem / Passionis fac consortem, / Et plagas recolere.  // Fac me plagis vulnerari, / Fac me cruce inebriari, / Et cruore Filii.  // Flammis ne urar succensus / Per te, Virgo, sim defensus / In die judicii.  // Fac me cruce custodiri / Morte Christi praemuniri / Confoveri gratia // Quando corpus morietur, / Fac, ut animae donetur / Paradisi gloria. Amen.

_ Lamentations Choir Of Clare College Cambridge, Timothy Brown (2009, Brilliant Classics – 93775)

[lesser-known-composers]

Outrageous sound..

Vicente Lusitano (1520-1561) - Heu me, Domine

Huelgas Ensemble - dir. Paul van Nevel

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Happy Holidays, and Merry Christmas!

Francesco Durante (1684-1755) - Ad presepe venite "Pastorale e Mottetto per la nativitate Jesu Christe" in G-Major, I. Ad presepe. Performed by Roberta Mameli, soprano, Urusula Eittinger, alto, Andreas Post, tenor, Stephan MacLeod, bass, and Michael Alexander Willens/Kölner Akademie on period instruments.

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Palestrina, VA ; Mc Creesh - Mass, Christmas In Rome. 1993 : DG Archiv.

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OTD in Music History: The supreme master of music, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was born in Eisenach, then the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, in present-day Germany. What more is there to say? To all readers: Make sure that you listen to some Bach today (and every day). And to the musicians, just remember: "There is nothing remarkable about playing a musical instrument. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time, and the instrument plays itself.” - J.S. Bach PICTURED: A very fine printed copy of a late 19th-Century British engraving done by "C. Cook" after the famous 1746 painting of the elderly Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1695 - 1774).

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Bach - Motet Lobet den Herrn BWV 230 - Prégardien | Netherlands Bach Soc...

Happy birthday to Western music’s greatest composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 -- July 28, 1750).

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Exsultate, jubilate, O vos animae beatae exsultate, jubilate, dulcia cantica canendo; cantui vestro respondendo psallant aethera cum me.

Fulget amica dies, jam fugere et nubila et procellae; exortus est justis inexspectata quies. Undique obscura regnabat nox, surgite tandem laeti qui  timuistis adhuc, et jucundi aurorae fortunatae. frondes dextera plena et lilia date.

Tu virginum corona, tu nobis pacem dona, tu consolare affectus, unde suspirat cor.

Alleluja, alleluja!

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Rejoice, resound with joy, o you blessed souls, singing sweet songs, In response to your singing let the heavens sing forth with me.

The friendly day shines forth, both clouds and storms have fled now; for the righteous there has arisen an unexpected calm. Dark night reigned everywhere [before]; arise, happy at last, you who feared till now, and joyful for this lucky dawn, give garlands and lilies with full right hand.

You, o crown of virgins, grant us peace, Console our feelings, from which our hearts sigh.

Alleluja, alleluja!

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Exsultate, jubilate - K.165

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  1756-1791

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Graphic - Jan van Eyck  1390-1441

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Video:

Regula Mühlemann: Exsultate Jubilate - W. A. Mozart

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Philippe de Vitry’s Petre Clemens/ Lugentium Siccentur. 

Any time I see a French medieval composer, I am sure to like the music. But then again, I am a fanatic for anything to do with the French language. 

Late last year, I was introduced to medieval composers from France whom I had not heard of before (my knowledge being limited to Guillaume de Machaut, Gilles Binchois, and Philippe de Vitry). 

I find music from this era particularly suitable for long writing periods, so if you are a writer, consider returning to the Middle Ages!