Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: The Gate of Purgatory
• Composer:  Joseph Dillon Ford
• Voices:  AB Organ
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: Classical, Sacred
• The second of three movements by composer Joseph Dillon Ford for male chorus, based on Dante's The Divine Comedy (L'inferno), sung by the dwsChorale.
  Video recreated in honour of the composer
  Vidi una porta, e tre gradi di sotto
  per...  moreThe second of three movements by composer Joseph Dillon Ford for male chorus, based on Dante's The Divine Comedy (L'inferno), sung by the dwsChorale.
  Video recreated in honour of the composer
  Vidi una porta, e tre gradi di sotto
  per gire ad essa, di color diversi,
  e un portier ch' ancor non facea motto.
  
  [I saw a portal, and three stairs beneath,
  Diverse in colour, to go up to it,
  And a gate-keeper, who yet spake no word]
  
  Poi pinse l' uscio a la porta sacrata,
  dicendo: "Intrate; ma facciovi accorti
  che di fuor torna chi ' n dietro si guata"
  
  [Then pushed the portals Of the sacred door,
  Exclaiming: “Enter; but I give you warning
  That forth returns whoever looks behind.”]
  
  Io mi rivolsi attento al primo tuono,
  e ' Te Deum laudamus' mi parea
  udire in voce mista al dolce suono.
  
  [At the first thunder-peal I turned attentive,
  And _”Te Deum laudamus”_ seemed to hear
  In voices mingled with sweet melody.]  less