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In
Paradisum
Christine Donkin
SSAATTBB
a cappella choir
Sacred
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Performed by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists, conducted
by Matthew Culloton. Finalist in the 2009 Choral Horizons.
Recording
Engineer: David Michel, Orchard House Media
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Notes:
"In Paradisum,” an ancient text sometimes included in musical
settings of the Requiem Mass, stands on its own in this dynamic eight-part
setting. The opening is still and peaceful, as the text describes the
soul’s arrival in paradise. Gradually the calm gives way to a
sense of movement, created by a polyphonic passage which builds in
intensity as the soul is brought to Jerusalem and greeted by a chorus
of angels. Finally, the stillness returns and the music fades to nothing
on the final word, “requiem”.
Text:
In paradisum deducant te angeli;
in tuo adventu
suscipiant te martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere,
aeternam
habeas requiem.
May the angels take you into paradise;
at your
coming, may the martyrs receive you,
and lead you to the holy city
of Jerusalem.
May a choir of angels greet you,
and with Lazarus,
once poor,
may you have eternal rest.
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