Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa / Tristis est anima mea

Carlo Gesualdo Principe di Venosa (1566?-1613): Tenebrae

Tristis est anima mea - Feria V, In coena Domini
In I Nocturno - Responsorium 1 (for Maudy Thursday)

The King's Singers (2004)

David Hurley, Robin Tyson: Countertenors
Paul Phoenix: Tenor
Philip Lawson, Gabriel Crouch: Baritones
Stephen Connolly: Bass


Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem:
sustinete hic, et vigilate mecum: nunc videbitis
turbam, quae circumdabit me: Vos fugam
capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis.

Ecce appropinquat hora, et filius hominis
tradetur in manus peccatorum.
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Responsory
My soul is sorrowful even unto death: stay here
and watch with me: now shall ye see the crowd
that shall surround me: ye shall take flight, and
I shall go to be offered up for you.

Verse
Behold the time draweth nigh, and the son of
man shall be delivered into the hands of sinners.