In pace - John Sheppard, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

Описание: 'In Pace' - John Sheppard
From the album ‘Lighten our Darkness' - Music for the close of day

Composer John Sheppard
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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In Pace
From 1543 Sheppard was choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he wrote an impressive body of mainly Latin church music. This simple, restrained setting of a Compline text would have been intended for Sheppard’s own choir, its top part probably sung by adult altos, the choristers presumably being in bed.

LYRICS:
In pace, in idipsum dormiam et requiescam.
Si dedero somnum oculis meis et palpebris meis dormitationem dormiam et requiescam.
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

(I shall lay me down in peace and take my rest. If I close my eyes, I shall sleep and rest.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.)

Lighten our Darkness
The service of Compline has inspired many incredibly beautiful compositions and this collection gathers together 18 of the many lovely a cappella choral motets written to adorn the evening worship of the church. Composers include Byrd, Guerrero, Rachmaninov and Sheppard, alongside such less well-known masterworks as Rheinberger’s Abendlied and the four great Marian motets of Victoria.

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 1981) 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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