The video below—by the Icelandic choir “Kór Langholtskirkju” with conductor Jón Stefánsson—performs Poulenc’s dramatic Tenebræ factæ sunt from 1938. This work appears in BCE’s program immediately after Paul Crabtree’s Unus ex discipulis meis/Slow Train.
Latin
Tenebræ factæ sunt, dum crucifixissent Jesum Judæi: Et circa horam nonam exclamavit Jesus voce magna: Deus meus, ut quid me dereliquisti? Et inclinato capite, emisit spiritum.
℣: Exclamans Jesu voce magna, ait: Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.English
Darkness covered the earth, whilst the Jews crucified Jesus: And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice: My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? And bowing His head, He gave up the ghost.
℣: Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.
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