O magnum mysterium - Tomás Luis de Victoria, John Rutter, Cambridge Singers

'O magnum mysterium' T.L. de Victoria
From ‘The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album’

Composer Tomás Luis de Victoria
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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O magnum mysterium
Victoria, the leading Spanish composer of the Renaissance, worked in Rome as organist, choirmaster and priest, and gained a wide reputation from his published compositions, all of them sacred. O magnum mysterium, from his first motet collection of 1572, has remained one of his best-known pieces, a succinct expression of the mystery and the joy of Christmas.

LYRICS:
O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderunt Dominum
natum jacentem in praesepio: O beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare
Dominum Jesum Christum. Alleluia.

(O great mystery and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the new-born Lord
lying in a manger: Blessed is that Virgin, whose womb deserved to bear Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia.)

T. L. de Victoria (1548–1611)
Words: Matin Responsory for Christmas Day

The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album
John Rutter selects some of his favourite Christmas carols, old and new, from classic Cambridge Singers recordings, including several of his own arrangements, closing with Vaughan Williams' majestic 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols'.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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