Weep, O Mine Eyes - John Bennet (SATB's Guide) “Weep O Mine Eyes” was first published by composer John Bennet (c. 1575-c. 1610) in his first collection of madrigals in 1599. It was one of his most popular madrigals, as well as one of the most Internati...  moreWeep, O Mine Eyes - John Bennet (SATB's Guide) “Weep O Mine Eyes” was first published by composer John Bennet (c. 1575-c. 1610) in his first collection of madrigals in 1599. It was one of his most popular madrigals, as well as one of the most Internationally famous songs of the period. It is apparently based on John Dowland’s “Flow, my Teares”. Like Dowland’s lyrics, these lyrics express an intense melancholy of someone whose happiness has been abruptly shattered and desires to not be saved from this dark despair. The speaker wishes his death by drowning in his despair, in his tears. The expression of melancholy, and notions of darkness, neglect, Time’s cruelty, spiteful age, were themes used by Elizabethan songwriters to prefigure the stark inevitability of death, and it remained a prominent feature of English literature and music in the time of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. More Information, contact us: guide4score@gmail.com  less

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Asperges me, Domine Asperges me Domine hysoppo et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. Gloria Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saec...  moreGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Asperges me, Domine Asperges me Domine hysoppo et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. Gloria Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum, Amen. Asperges me repeated…to dealbabor Psalm 51, Verse 7 [Antiphon at the Sprinkling of Holy Water] Thou shalt purge me, O Lord, with hyssop and I shall be clean:Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be: world without end. Amen Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 51, Verse The rite of sprinkling the faithful with holy water at the start of the Medieval mass in every Sunday of the Church’s Year except for Palm Sunday and in Eastertide involved the use of verse seven from the famous Miserere text, the 51st Psalm. Palestrina’s four part setting involves the sustained motto theme of the traditional plainchant melody within the...    less

"O magnum mysterium" for mixed choir by Malcolm Archer (1952) performed by Ensemble InContrà conductor: Roberto Brisotto Excerpt from the cd "Sicut Incensum" (2021) Recording, edit and mix: Diego Ceruti Master: Andrea De Bernardi, Diego Ceruti @ E...  more"O magnum mysterium" for mixed choir by Malcolm Archer (1952) performed by Ensemble InContrà conductor: Roberto Brisotto Excerpt from the cd "Sicut Incensum" (2021) Recording, edit and mix: Diego Ceruti Master: Andrea De Bernardi, Diego Ceruti @ Eleven Mastering Graphic project: Cinzia Porro Video by Remo Bortolin (Fotoclik) Photos by Marco Saccon (Maruko Frusciante): Jean Langlais Festival 2019 11/7/2019 Church - La Fontenelle, Brittany, (France) 12/7/2019 Church of Notre dame - Pontorson, Brittany (France) 13/7/2019 Basilique de Notre-Dame - Pontmain, Loire (France) Thanks to USCI FVG, Comune di Fontanafredda, Don Gilberto Sessantini, Don Ezio Segat, Don Massimo Bazzichetto, Remo Bortolin (Fotoclik), Brenda Dean, Marco Saccon (Maruko Frusciante), Diego and Cinzia  less