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Christe qui lux es - Compline hymn

Come and do Your will in me - Taverner - Voices and strings

Jube domine - In principio

Lectio ysaye prophete - Surge illuminare

O lux beata trinitas - Vespers hymn

Anonymous 4 / Chilingirian String Quartet: Darkness Into Light (CD)

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From the CD liner notes by Susan Hellauer:
"As the last of a three-work commission for the Chilingirian String Quartet, Sir John Taverner composed The Bridegroom in 1999 for the quartet and Anonymous 4. The text he chose, from the liturgy of Holy Week in the Orthodox Church, is based on the New Testament parable of the wise and foolish virgins (Matthew 25:1-13) in which ten virgins await a wedding feast. Five are prepared with enough oil for their lamps to greet the bridegroom's sudden arrival at midnight. The other five are not prepared, and, without light, are barred from the wedding feast and cast out into the darkness." Combining hymns from the Divine Office exploring the dichotomy of light and darkness and two-voice settings of biblical readings marking the struggle between good and evil, darkness and light. All but one of the four Taverner pieces are accompanied by the Chilingirian String Quartet. (64:13 2003)

Anonymous 4: Taverner-The Bridegroom & Other Works (CD)
Song List:
Darkness Into Light
O lux beata trinitas (Vespers hymn)
Jube domine/In principio (Lection)
Come and do Your will in me (Taverner/Voices and strings)
Christe qui lux es (Compline hymn)
Lectio ysaye prophete/Surge illuminare (Lection)
As one who has slept (Taverner/Voices and strings)
Medie noctis tempus est (Nocturne hymn)
Leccio libri apokalipsis/Vidi civitatem (Lection)
The Lord's Prayer (Taverner)
Quinque prudentes virgines (Alleluia)
The Bridegroom (Taverner/Voices and strings)
Inventor rutili (Hymn for the New Light)

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