In the video below we hear Gesualdo’s setting of “O vos omnes” from the middle of the Holy Saturday reponsories. Gesualdo’s iconoclastic style, while muted in a sacred setting, remains intact in this music. Listen as you read the text and notice how Gesulado shifts color and texture fluently as he treats each bit of text.
Latin
O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam,
attendite, et videte:
Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.℣: Attendite, universi populi,
et videte dolorem meum.English
O all ye that pass by
attend and see:
If there be any sorrow like unto My sorrow.℣: Attend, O all ye people,
and see My sorrow.
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