Video Information

• Choir: Downtown Voices
• Piece: Alma redemptoris mater
• Composer:  Cecilia MacDowall
• Conductor:  Stephen Sands
• Voices:  SSATBB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Christmas
• Alma redemptoris mater
  Cecilia McDowall (1951-)
  Trinity Church, NYC
  Downtown Voices (http://DowntownVoices.net)
  Stephen Sands, conductor (moreAlma redemptoris mater
  Cecilia McDowall (1951-)
  Trinity Church, NYC
  Downtown Voices (http://DowntownVoices.net)
  Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net)
  
  Latin Lyrics
  Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli
  Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
  Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,
  Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem
  Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
  Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.
  
  English Translation
  Sweet Mother of the Redeemer, the passage to the heavens,
  the gate of the spirits of the dead, and the star of the sea, aid the falling.
  Mother of Him who cares for the people: you who brought forth
  the wonder of Nature, your Creator.
  Virgin before and after, who received of Gabriel
  with joyful greeting, have pity on us sinners.  less