Tu claustra stirpe regia - Tarik O'Regan, Timothy Brown, The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

'Tu claustra stirpe regia' - Tarik O'Regan
From the album ‘Voices’

Composer Tarik O'Regan
Conductor Timothy Brown
Choir The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

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LYRICS:
Tu claustra stirpe regia
iureque mundi domina,
desideratum omnibus
tu pertulisti gentibus

O stella maris fulgida,
absolve plebis crimina,
Fletus quoque supplicium
inmutando gaudium. Amen.

O Thou, from regal ancestry,
And rightful worldly sovereign,
Brings forth unto all nations wide,
That by which all seek to abide.

O Thou, the glowing star of sea,
Whose people freed from tyranny,
Do grant the supplicants this night,
Their weeping changed into delight. Amen.

Anonymous, tr. Tarik O’Regan

Voices
Voices, a collection of 14 première recordings of the music of Tarik O’Regan, one of the most exciting choral composers to emerge in the 21st century. His music is tonal, although edgy and definably contemporary. The recording was produced and engineered by John Rutter.

The three motets which open this recording are taken from a collection of compositions which form part of an ongoing project called Sequence for St Wulfstan. Each work in the Sequence (currently comprising six individual a cappella settings) is conceived to be performed alone or in the company of any number of its siblings. The text of each motet is taken from the 723-page Portiforium of St Wulfstan, an eleventh-century liturgical almanac housed as Manuscript 391 in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Portiforium carries the name of the then Bishop of Worcester, St Wulfstan, who likely commissioned his scribes to copy and collate the volume in 1065.

Tu claustra stirpe regia was composed to celebrate the accession of Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II, to the position of Patroness of Queens’ College, Cambridge, receiving its première by the College Choir under the direction of Samuel Hayes in June 2003. Using only two verses of the seven stanza Ambrosian hymn Nunc tibi, virgo virginum, this Marian text links liturgy with the regal theme of the commission (‘O Thou, from regal ancestry’).

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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