Tuesday 8 November 2011

Jan Garbarek + The Hilliard Ensemble~ Music for the SOUL~ "0 Salutaris Hostia"

http://youtu.be/gGsrpEn70Ao

From the Album "Officium". Track "O Solutaris Hostia" (1455-1518, Pierre de la Rue; a profound contrapuntal composer of the fifteenth century) means "O Saving Host". Recorded at Propistei St. Gerold, Austria (Sept. 1993).

See also another clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtgpik83nFs&fmt=18

(Latin text)
O salutaris hostia
quae caeli pandis ostium,
bella premunt hostilia:
da robur, fer auxilium
Uni trinoque Domino
sit sempiterna gloria,
qui vitam sine termino
nobis donet in patria.

(English translation)
O saving victim
who open the gate of heaven,
hostile wars press on us:
give strength, bring aid.
To the Lord, three in one,
be everlasting glory,
for life without end
he gives us in (his) Kingdom.

Personnel:
Jan Garbarek: Saxophone
David James: Countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump: Tenor
John Potter: Tenor
Gordon Jones: Baritone

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