Recessit pastor noster (Carlo Gesualdo)

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General Information

Title: Recessit Pastor noster
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motets
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: Gesualdo, 1611

Description: Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday, Response no. 4

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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]