The Sacred Harp Quarantine Chorus

A Ka Dua - A sacred chant in ancient Egyptian

Here is a sacred chant that is quite old. A Ka Dua - A sacred chant in ancient Egyptian

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‘Ne Irascaris Domine’ and ‘Civitas Sancti Tui’ (William Byrd)

VOCES8 performs William Byrd’s double motet ‘Ne Irascaris Domine’ and ‘Civitas Sancti Tui’ in the Gresham Centre in London.

Text

Ne irascaris, Domine, satis

et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae.

Ecce, respice, populus tuus omnes nos.

Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta.

Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est.

(Isaiah 64 v. 9)

Translation

Be not angry, O Lord, still,

neither remember our iniquity for ever.

Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

The holy cities are a wilderness.

Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Forty Days (Dave Brubeck)

Dave Brubeck wrote a sacred oratorio The Light in the Wilderness. "40 Days" is a movement from that work, a meditation upon Jesus' time in the wilderness. Jesus' temptations in the wilderness are traditionally reflected upon by the church as we enter the Lenten season.

   

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