Voces Clamantium - Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

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"Composed for the Hereford Musical Festival, 1903."

⌛ Epoche → 20. Jahrhundert ◈ Genre → Anthems ♬ Besetzung → SATB|add=with Bass and Sopr. Soloists ¶ Sprache → Englisch

Stimmen 4

Instrumente Piano

Seiten 48

CPDL Nr. 16376

Veröffentlicht 2009-05-03

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''Vox Clamantis in deserto''. SOPRANO SOLO. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet. ''(Isaiah, lviii.)'' Keep silence before me, O islands And lot the people renew their strength Let them come near, then let them speak let them come near to judgment. ''(Isaiah xli.)'' ''Adventus populi.'' ''Chorus.'' The noise of a multitude in the mountains like as of a great people, The noise of a tumult of the nations gathered together. They come from the uttermost parts of the heaven. Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shah melt, and they shall be dismayed. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. Ah ! the uproar of many people ; which roar like the roaring of the Seas : and the rushing of the nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters. ''(Isaiah xiii. and xvii,)'' ''Vox Prophetae'' BASS SOLO. God looked for judgment, but behold oppression. For righteousness, but behold a cry. Woe into them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room. Woe unto them that tarry late into the night till wine inflame there, and harp and lute and pipe are in their feasts, but they regard not the work of the Lord, Neither have they considered the operations of his hands. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with the cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away tile righteousness of the righteous from him. As the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as the dust. ''(Isaiah V.)'' ''Vox populi.'' CHORUS. The Lord is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for him. ''(Isaiah xviii.)'' ''Vox consolatoris.'' SOPRANO SOLO. Behold, be sendeth one to bind up the bro