Notes on the Program - Cantata Singers

diViNiNg the iNCaNdesCeNt
Anton Bruckner: Pange lingua (1868) Herbert Howells: Requiem (1936)
Pange lingua gloriosi
corporis mysterium
sanguinisque pretiosi,
quem in mundi pretium
fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit Gentium.
Nobis datus, nobis natus
ex intacta virgine
et in mundo conversatus,
sparso verbi semine,
sui moras incolatus
miro clausit ordine.
In supremae nocte cenae
recumbens cum fratribus
observata lege plene
cibis in legalibus,
cibum turbae duodenae
se dat suis manibus.
Verbum caro, panem verum
verbo carnem efficit:
fitque sanguis Christi merum,
et si sensus deficit,
ad firmandum cor sincerum
sola fides sufficit.
tantum ergo sacramentum
veneremur cernui,
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui;
praestet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.
Genitori Genitoque
laus et iubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio;
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio.
Amen.
Anton Bruckner: christus factus est (1884)
christus factus est pro nobis obediens
usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.
Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum et dedit
illi nomen,
quod est super omne nomen.
Sing, my tongue,
the mystery of the glorious body,
And of the precious Blood
that for the world’s salvation
the fruit of a noble womb,
the king of the nations, shed.
Given to us, born to us,
From an unblemished virgin,
And having lived in the world,
Scattering the seed of the Word,
the time of his habitation
Miraculously he closed in due order.
In the night of his last supper,
Resting with his brothers,
the law being fully observed
With permitted foods,
to the group of twelve
he gave himself as food with his own hands.
The Word in flesh true bread
By a word makes His flesh,
And also makes true wine the Blood of christ,
And if sense is lacking,
To confirm a true heart
Faith alone suffices.
therefore so great a Sacrament
Let us fall down and worship,
And let the old law
Give way to a new rite,
And let faith stand forward
to make good the defects of sense.
to the Father and the Son
Be praise and joy,
health, honour and virtue
And blessing,
And to him proceeding from both
Be equal praise.
Amen.
christ became obedient for us unto death,
even to the death, death on the cross.
therefore God exalted him and gave him a
name
which is above all names.
teXts aNd traNslatioNs
Salvator mundi
O Saviour of the world,
who by thy cross and thy precious blood
hast redeemed us,
save us and help us,
we humbly beseech thee, O Lord.
Psalm 23
the Lord is my shepherd:
therefore can I lack nothing.
he shall feed me in a green pasture:
and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.
he shall convert my soul:
and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me:
thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Requiem aeternam (I)
Requiem aeternam dona eis.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
Eternal rest grant unto them.
And let light perpetual shine upon them.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.
Psalm 121
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills:
from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh even from the Lord:
who hath made heaven and earth.
he will not suffer thy foot to be moved:
and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel:
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
the Lord himself is thy keeper:
he is thy defence upon thy right hand;
so that the sun shall not burn thee by day,
neither the moon by night.
the Lord shall preserve thee from all evil:
yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.
the Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in:
from this time forth and for evermore.
Requiem aeternam (II)
Requiem aeternam dona eis.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
Eternal rest grant unto them.
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