Lumina + Lyrebyrd: Medieval music - Beata viscera by Pérotin

Описание: Beata viscera by Pérotin the Great (fl. c 1200)
Lumina Vocal Ensemble, Musical Director Anna Pope
Live Performance at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2014
'A Medieval Adventure'
Instrumental solos:
Rosemary Byron-Scott (Bass Recorder)
James Cowling (lute)
Kenneth Pope (treble recorder)
Instrumental drones
Rachel Sag & Tim Muecke (tenor recorders)
Eleanor Pope (bass viol)
Singers:
Rachel Sag, Beth Madigan, Anna Pope, Melinda Pike, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Kate Tretheway
Live Recording by Kenneth Pope
Barr Smith Library Reading Room, Adelaide University
Lumina photos by Photografeo
Film by Anna Pope

Text:
Beata viscera, Marie virginis
cuius ad ubera rex magni nominis;
veste sub altera vim celans numinis
dictavit federa Dei et hominis.

O mira novitas et novum gaudium,
matris integrita post puerperium.

Populus gentium sedens in tenebris
surgit ad gaudium partus tam celebris:
Iudea tedium fovet in latebris,
cor gerens conscium delicet funebris.

English translation by Bernard Mageean:
Blessed is the womb of the virgin Mary,
At whose breasts lay the king of great renown.
Hiding his mighty power,
He joined the human to the divine.

O amazing news of unprecedented joy!
We behold the virgin after the birth.

The people of nations once languishing in darkness
Now arise joyfully on account of this motherhood.
For Juda a weary sentence has been served in a dark place,
But now the heart with this secret is pouring light on those buried.