William Byrd – c.1540-1623. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mark 13:35-37 [Latin]
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Vigilate (from Cantiones sacrae I, 1589) composed by William Byrd (1540-1623)
Performed by The Tallis Scholars
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English: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, portrait by Edward Magnus 1846 Deutsch: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Portrait von Edward Magnus 1846 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Psalm 43:1-5 [German]
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Richte mich, Gott, Op. 78, No. 2, composed in 1844 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Performed by Ensemble Vocalitas Nova
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English: Portrait of Alonso Lobo. Español: Retrato de Alonso Lobo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Job 30:31, 7:16 [Latin]
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Versa est in luctum (1602), composed by Alonso Lobo (1555-1617)
Performed by The Southwark Cathedral Merbecke Choir
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Kupferstich von Ferdinand Ruscheweyh nach einem Gemälde Eduard von Bendemanns (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Psalm 137:1-2 [Latin]
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Super flumina Babylonis (1581), composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594)
Performed by The Choir of Saint Luke’s Ordinariate Parish, Washington DC
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