Adoramus te, Christe

General Information

Adoramus te, Christe, is an Antiphon for Good Friday Liturgy.

Settings by composers

Anonymous Codex Montecassino 871 SATB unknown (19c?) SAB (in 3/4) unknown (19c?) SATB (in 4/4) Paolo Agostini TTBB, SSAA or SATB Gregor Aichinger SSAT or SATB Felice Anerio SATB Giovanni Matteo Asola TTBB Agnaldo Baêta SATB Andrea Bianchi (elevation for Missa 2nda) SATB.SATB Johannes Brahms SSAA Fritz Brodersen SATB William Byrd A with 4 viols Giuseppe Corsi da Celano SATB (basso seguente) Loyset Compère: excerpt from from Officium de Cruce ATTB (adds" Qui passus es pro nobis") Adrian Cuello SATB Gian Paolo Dal Dosso SATB Mariano Garau SATB Quirino Gasparini SATB & bc; attributed to Mozart Carlo Gesualdo SSATTB Charles H. Giffen SA Jacob Handl a 6 SSATTB a 8 SATB.SATB M. Konz unison w/ keyboard Orlando di Lasso (disambiguation page) a 3 (I) SSA a 3 (II) SSA a 4 SATB or TTBB a 5 TTTBB or SATB arrangement Giovanni Battista Martini TTB Claudio Merulo SSATTB

Claudio Monteverdi SSATTB Jorge Moreira SATB attributed to Mozart: see Quirino Gasparini a 4 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina attributed to Palestrina in 19th C., SATB pari voci (SSAA or TTBB) SATB Clemens non Papa SATB Giacomo Antonio Perti I (e phrygien) SATB II (a minor) SATB III (C major) SATB Giuseppe Pitoni TTBB or SATB Richard Quesnel SATB Oreste Ravanello SSA Roberto Remondi SSA (Domine for Christe) Giovanni Battista Riccio S (includes O sacrum convivium) Francesco Rosselli a 4 in A SATB (source of the soprano in the pseudo-Palestrina setting above) a 4 in D SATB Vincenzo Ruffo TTBB or SATB Michele Saladino SSA Wietse Stuurman SATB Ascanio Trombetti SAATBB Bartolomeo Tromboncino SATB Stefano Venturi SSSATTT or AAATTTB Geert Verhallen SATB Ludovico da Viadana SATB John S. Wilson SSAATTBB José Maria Xavier SATB & orchestra Mikolaj Zielenski SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Théodore Dubois — Adoramus Te Christe
• Charles Gounod — Adoramus te, CG 132

Text and translations

Latin text Byrd, Gasparini, Gesualdo, Merulo Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi: quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.   Latin text Lasso, Clemens non Papa Adoramus te, Christe et benedicimus tibi. Quia per tuam sanctam crucem redemisti mundum. Domine, miserere nobis. Toi(Alleluia)   Latin text Rosselli, Brahms, Zielenski, Brodersen Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi, quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. Qui passus es pro nobis, Domine, miserere nobis.   Latin text Monteverdi Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. Quia per sanguinem tuum pretiosum redemisti mundum. Miserere nobis.   Latin text Handl, Martini Adoramus te Christe, Adoramus te Jesu, et benedicimus tibi. Quia per crucem tuam redemisti mundum.   Latin text Ruffo, Trombetti, Verhallen Adoramus te Christe, et benedicimus tibi: quia per sanctam crucem tuam et passionem tuam, redemisti mundum. (Domine), miserere nobis.

English translation Translation by St Ann choir We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee: because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world.   English translation Translation by St Ann choir We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world. O Lord, have mercy upon us.   English translation Translation by St Ann choir We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world. O Lord, who suffered for us, have mercy on us.   French translation Monteverdi Nous t'adorons, Ô Christ, et te bénissons, Toi qui, par ton sang précieux, as racheté le monde. Aie pitié de nous.   {{Translation|Spanish| Di Lasso, Clemens non Papa Te adoramos, o Cristo, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz, has redimido al mundo. O Señor, ten piedad de nosotros. Chinese translation 基督，我們讚美你， 因你以十字聖架， 救贖了普世。 主，求你垂憐。   Croatian translation Klanjamo Ti se Kriste i blagoslivljamo Tebe jer si svojim svetim Križem svijet otkupio. Gospodine, smiluj se nama.   Hungarian translation Monteverdi Imádunk téged Krisztus, és áldunk téged, Mert drága véred által megváltottad a világot. Irgalmazz nekünk.   Slovenian translation Byrd, Gasparini, Gesualdo, Merulo Molimo te Kristus in te hvalimo, ker si s svojim svetim križem svet odrešil. Monteverdi Molimo te Kristus in te hvalimo, ker si s svojo dragoceno krvjo svet odrešil. Usmili se nas.

External links

• Wikipedia article