Vespers

Song Cycle by David Matthews (b. 1943)

1. The light shouts in your tree‑top  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The light shouts in your tree-top, and the face
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2. Alma redemptoris mater  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Latin 
Alma Redemptoris Mater,
Quae pervia coeli porta manes
Et stella maris, succurre cadenti
Surgere qui curat populo:

Tu quae genuisti Natura mirante 
tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius,
Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud Ave
Peccatorum miserere.

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Milde Moeder van de Redder"
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Dear mother of our redeemer", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Hail mother of the Redeemer", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Vapahtajan rakastava Äiti", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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3. If only there were stillness  [sung text not yet checked]

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If only there were stillness, full, complete
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems from the Book of Hours, New Directions, 2018


Total word count: 233