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

Transcendental Music 4 the soul~Jan Garbarek "Parce Mihi Domine"

http://youtu.be/
From the Album "Officium". Track "Parce Mihi Domine" (Christóbal de Morales, 1550-1553, Spain). Recorded at Propistei St. Gerold, Austria (Sept. 1993). "Parce mihi Domine" is from the vulgate translation of the book of job and nearly means "Spare me, O Lord." The whole text is beautiful and Morales has created a truly transcendent piece here, very much ahead of his time.
(Latin text)
Parce mihi, Domine, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum?
Aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
Visitas eum diluculo et subito probas illum.
Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me, ut glutiam salivam meam?
Peccavi, quid faciam tibi, o custos hominum?
Quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimetispsi gravis?
Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam?
Ecce, nunc in pulvere dormiam, et si mane me quaesieris, non subsistam.

(English translation)
Spare me, Lord, for my days are as nothing.
What is Man, that you should make so much of us?
Or why should you set your heart upon us?
You visit us at dawn,
and put us to the test at any moment.
Will you not spare me and let me be,
while I swallow my saliva?
If I have sinned, how have I hurt you,
O guardian of mankind?
Why have you set me up as your target,
so that I am now a burden to myself?
Why do you not forgive my sin
and why do you not take away my guilt?
Behold, I shall now lie down in the dust:
if you come looking for me I shall have ceased to exist.

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

Category:

~Visions of Paradise~


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Sunday 6 November 2011

~Isle of Purbeck, St.Aldhelm's Head~

~Isle of Purbeck, St.Aldhelm's Head~
November 6th 2011


St Aldhelm's Head
Up here the air is a fact
A wall of wind curls up over the cliff-top
Pressing yarrow and coarse grass close.

You say “Don’t stand so near the edge”
As the breeze buffets and blusters.
The tiny chapel hunches tight to the living rock
Like a barnacle, shrugging off the air tide.
Just as it has a time tide.
The wind blows on and on and on;

As it has. As it will.
Poem by: Peter john Cooper 
www.spyway.com






~St. Aldhelm's Chapel~








St. Aldhelm's Head, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

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