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Veni, veni, Emanuel

from Christmas in Medieval England by Blue Heron

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lyrics

Veni, veni, Emanuel!
Captivum solve Israel,
Qui gemit in exilio,
Privatus Dei filio.
Gaude! gaude! Emanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, O Jesse Virgula!
Ex hostis tuos ungula,
De specu tuos tartari
Educ, et antro barathri.

Veni, veni, O Oriens!
Solare nos adveniens,
Noctis depelle nebulas,
Dirasque noctis tenebras.

Veni, Clavis Davidica!
Regna reclude celica,
Fac iter tutum superum,
Et claude vias inferum.

Veni, veni, Adonaï,
Qui populo in Sinaï
Legem dedisti vertice
In maiestate glorie.

13th century French?

Translation:
Come, O come, Emmanuel!
Redeem captive Israel,
who laments in exile,
deprived of the son of God.
Rejoice! rejoice! Emanuel
shall be born to you, O Israel.

Come, O Rod of Jesse!
From the enemy’s claws,
from the pit of hell
lead your people, and from the maw of the abyss.

Come, come, O Morning Star!
Console us with your coming,
dispel the gloom of night,
and pierce the nocturnal shadows.

Come, Key of David!
Open wide the heavenly kingdom,
make safe the road above,
and bar the ways to hell.

Come, come, Adonai,
who on the mount of Sinai
gave your people the Law
in glorious majesty.

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from Christmas in Medieval England, released October 9, 2015
Hymn (13th-century French?)

Singers
David McFerrin and Men

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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