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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This disc comes in an attractive 4-panel wallet-style format, with a CD sleeve. There is no plastic CD tray, which makes for a greener (and more lightweight) package. The CD features the world premiere recording of the only surviving Mass of Robert Jones (fl.1520-1535), who was employed in the royal chapel during the reign of Henry VIII. Lyrical and mellifluous, the mass is a mature work, revealing a Master composer at the height of his power. The completely unknown composer Robert Hunt left behind a stunning work that brilliantly highlights the drama of the Stabat mater story.

    The package includes a booklet with notes by Music Director Scott Metcalfe, including an extensive discussion of performance practice of music from the period (including vocal scoring, voice types, and pronunciation of Latin).

    Includes unlimited streaming of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 4 (Robert Jones: Missa Spes nostra) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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lyrics

Stabat mater dolorosa
Juxta crucem lacrimosa,
Dum pendebat filius,
Cuius animam gementem,
Contristantem et dolentem
Pertransivit gladius.

O quam tristis et afflicta
Fuit illa benedicta
Mater unigeniti,
Que merebat et dolebat
Dum videbat et gerebat
Penas nati incliti.

Quis est homo qui non fleret
Matrem Christi si videret
In tanto supplicio?
Quis non potest contristari
Matrem Christi contemplari
Dolentem cum filio?

Eya mater, fons amoris
Me sentire vim doloris
Fac, ut tecum lugeam.
Fac ut ardeat cor meum
In amando Christum deum
Ut illi complaceam.

Stabat mater rubens rosa
Juxta crucem lachrimosa
Videns ferre criminosa
Nullo reum crimine.
Et dum stetit generosa
Juxta natum dolorosa
Plebs tunc clamat clamorosa,
“Crucifige, crucifige!”

O quam gravis illa pena
Tibi virgo pene plena,
Commemorans preamena
Jam versa in mesticiam.
Color rose non est inventus
In te mater dum detentus
Stabat natus sic contentus
Ad debellandum Sathanam.

Per hec nata preamata
Natum tuum qui peccata
Dele cuncta perpetrata
Deprecare dulciflue,
Ut nostra tergens ingrata
In nobis plantet firme grata,
Per quem dando prelibata
Prestet eterna requie.

Amen.

The grieving mother
stood beside the doleful cross
while her son hung there,
and the sword went through
her weeping soul,
sorrowing and lamenting.

Oh, how sad and afflicted
was that blessed mother
of the only-begotten,
who sorrowed and lamented
while she saw and experienced
the sufferings of her illustrious son.

Who is the man who would not weep
if he saw the mother of Christ
in such great anguish?
Who would not be moved to compassion
if he beheld the mother of Christ
grieving with her son?

Ah, mother, fount of love,
make me feel the force of grief
so that I may mourn with thee.
Make my heart take fire
in loving Christ the God
that I may be pleasing to him.

The mother stood, blushing red,
beside the dolorous cross,
watching him borne in ignominy
who was guilty of no crime.
And while the noble woman stood there
beside her suffering son,
the people cried out clamorously,
“Crucify, crucify!”

Oh, how intense was that grief
to thee, maiden full of sorrows,
remembering great happiness
now turned into sorrow.
No natural complexion was found
in thee, mother, while fixed there
thy son stood, thus intent
on doing battle with Satan.

For this reason, most beloved daughter,
in sweet-flowing words beseech
thy son, that he will cancel all sins
that have been committed,
so that, wiping away our unworthiness,
he may plant worthiness firmly within us,
and by giving us this aforesaid gift
may bestow everlasting repose.

Amen.

Translation of Stabat mater
© Nick Sandon 1993 and 2013

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from Robert Jones: Missa Spes nostra (Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, vol. 4), released August 14, 2015
Composed by Robert Hunt (early 16th century), completed by Nick Sandon (Antico Edition, RCM103).

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