RECORDED LIVE IN ST GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL, CAPE TOWN, ON 12 OCTOBER 2018

RECORDED & MASTERED BY CAPETOWN SOUND

CONDUCTED BY LINDA CLAASSENSOLOIST: MINETTE DU TOIT-PEARCE

VOX CAPE TOWN, STADSKOOR TYGERBERG & CANTIQUE CHAMBER CHOIR

CANTUS LACRIMOSUS | 13th-Century Latin 8:56 At the cross her station keeping, stood the mournful Mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last.

INCANTATION | 13th-Century Latin (Sung in Arabic) 4:10 Pray for us, O Holy Mary, O Mother of God, O virgin of virgins, Pray for us.

VIDIT JESUM IN TORMENTUS | 13th-Century Latin 6:46 Is there one who would not weep, whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ’s dear Mother to behold?

LAMENT | Written by Carol Barratt especially for this work 4:15 Feeling all the grief and sorrow, we live life with shadows in our hearts and minds, With tears that wait to fall when sorrow in the world is more than we can truly bear…

SANCTA MATER | 13th-Century Latin 5:48 Holy Mother! Pierce me through, in my heart each wound renew, of my Saviour crucified.

NOW MY LIFE IS ONLY WEEPING | Written by Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī (1207-1273) 4:58 Now my life is only weeping, like a candle melting, like a flute my cries are song…

AND THE MOTHER DID WEEP | Written by Karl Jenkins 5:55 VIRGO VIRGINUM | 13th-Century Latin 3:21 Virgin, of all virgins blest! Listen to my fond request: Let me share thy grief divine.

ARE YOU LOST OUT IN DARKNESS? | From The Epic of Gilgamesh, 7th Century BCE 6:17 Are you lost out in darkness? Is your sleep, your silence, endless? Can you no more hear my voice?

AVE VERUM | 13th-Century Latin 4:43 Hail, true body, born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, sacrificed on the cross for mankind.

FAC, UT PORTEM CHRISTI MORTEM | 13th-Century Latin 3:09 Let me, to my latest breath, in my body bear the death of your dying Son divine.

PARADISI GLORIA | 13th-Century Latin 7:01 Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, lest in flames I burn and die, in his awful Judgement Day. When my body dies, let my soul be granted the glory of Paradise. Amen. Alleluia.

“EMBARKING ON A CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL JOURNEY TO SOLACE…” 13:02 A listening guide, adapted from the pre-performance talk, presented by John Woodland

Inspired by ancient instruments and modes from the Middle East, this choral andorchestral masterpiece wri�en by Sir Karl Jenkins in 2001, gives fresh expression and

intensity to the �meless 13th-century text on which this work is based. Three choirs anda host of top instrumentalists joined forces in the magnificent acous�c of

St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, replete with atmospheric ligh�ng,to present this eclec�c choral and orchestral journey to solace.

KARL JENKINSSTABAT MATER