Canterbury Cathedral Choir - Lockdown Choir - Casals: O Vos Omnes conducted by Dr David Flood.

Описание: Multiple voices of Boy Choristers and Gentlemen Lay Clerks with video of some, currently locked down at home due to the Corona Virus Outbreak in 2020.

Recorded during Holy Week - the boys, girls and men of the Cathedral Choir would usually sing around 20 services including two passions and a full Requiem.

Dr David Flood, Organist and Master of the Choristers, conducted a rehearsal track of this stunning piece for Holy Saturday, and during the week the boys and men have submitted audio and/or video performances which have been stitched together to form a whole. Some of the adult members of the regular choir are at home without their families, caught elsewhere and many parents of the boys and girls of the Cathedral Choir are keyworkers in the NHS, Emergency Services and so on.

O vos omnes is a responsory, originally sung as part of Roman Catholic liturgies for Holy Week, and now often sung as a motet. The text is adapted from the Latin Vulgate translation of Lamentations 1:12. It was often set, especially in the sixteenth century, as part of the Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday.

Recording and video editing by Peter Futcher

Text
O vos ómnes qui transítis per víam,
atténdite et vidéte:
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.

Atténdite, univérsi pópuli, et vidéte dolórem méum.
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.

Translation
O all you who walk by on the road,
pay attention and see:
if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.

Pay attention, all people, and look at my sorrow:
if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.