Recessit pastor noster (Carlo Gesualdo)
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CPDL #17926:
- Editor: Diana Thompson (added 2008-08-17). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 68 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Recessit Pastor noster
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gesualdo, 1611
Description: Response no. 4 of the Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Recessit Pastor noster, fons aquae vivae,
ad cujus transitum sol obscuratus est,
nam et ille captus est, qui captivum tenebat primum hominem;
hodie portas mortis et seras pariter Salvator noster disrupit.
Versus: Destruxit quidem claustra inferni,
et subvertit potentias diaboli.
[Nam et ille]