Siderum Rector - William Byrd, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

'Siderum Rector'
From the album ‘Ave verum corpus' - Motets and anthems of William Byrd

Composer William Byrd
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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LYRICS:
Siderum Rector, Deus alme, nostris
Parce iam culpis, vitia remittens:
Quo tibi puri resonemus almum
Pectoris hymnum.

Gloria Patri, genitaeque Proli,
Et tibi, compar utriusque semper,
Spiritus alme, Deus unus omni
Tempore saecli. Amen.

Ruler of the heavens, merciful God,
Forgive our sins and pardon our offences:
Let our hearts and voices sweetly resound
With a hymn to thee.

Glory be to the Father, to the Son,
And to thee, Holy Spirit,
One God, world without end.
Amen.

(from the hymn ‘Virginis proles’)

Siderum Rector
From the 1575 Cantiones Sacrae, this heart-easingly gracious and flowing hymn-setting is an experiment based on a Ferrabosco model. The experiment consisted in following the metre of a hymn text in music whose note values matched the long and short syllables of the poetry rather exactly. Byrd, aware of the risk of monotony inherent in the rather insistent Sapphic metre of Siderum Rector, wisely set only two stanzas, and provided variety by swapping the melody between soprano and tenor and adding a little polyphonic elaboration to the plain texture.

Ave verum corpus - Motets and anthems of William Byrd
This recording presents a selection of 15 of the 150 or so Latin motets and three of the dozens of English anthems that, between them, form the larger part of the life’s work of William Byrd (1543–1623), the greatest English composer of his era. The chosen motets and anthems represent just some of the many facets of Byrd’s sacred music, now recognized after three centuries of neglect as among the most glorious ever written for choir.

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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