Palestrina: Second Book of Lamentations – Cinquecento Hyperion

Lamentations II for Maundy Thursday ‘In Coena Domini'[22’35]
1
Lectio I No 1: Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae[0’52]
2
Lectio I No 2: Aleph[0’29]
3
Lectio I No 3: Quomodo sedet sola civitas[1’13]
4
Lectio I No 4: Beth[0’28]
5
Lectio I No 5: Plorans ploravit in nocte[1’49]
6
Lectio I No 6: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’13]
7
Lectio II No 1: Vau[0’39]
8
Lectio II No 2: Et egressus est a filia Sion[1’28]
9
Lectio II No 3: Zain[0’32]
10
Lectio II No 4: Recordata est Jerusalem[1’32]
11
Lectio II No 5: Viderunt eam hostes[0’33]
12
Lectio II No 6: Heth[0’48]
13
Lectio II No 7: Peccatum peccavit Jerusalem[1’39]
14
Lectio II No 8: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’32]
15
Lectio III No 1: Jod[0’40]
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Lectio III No 2: Manum suam misit hostis[1’36]
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Lectio III No 3: Caph[0’30]
18
Lectio III No 4: Omnis populus eius gemens[0’57]
19
Lectio III No 5: Vide, Domine, et considera[0’38]
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Lectio III No 6: Lamed[0’36]
21
Lectio III No 7: O vos omnes[1’16]
22
Lectio III No 8: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’35]
Lamentations II for Good Friday ‘In Parasceve'[23’55]
23
Lectio I No 1: De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae[0’41]
24
Lectio I No 2: Heth[0’36]
25
Lectio I No 3: Cogitavit Dominus dissipare murum filiae Sion[0’53]
26
Lectio I No 4: Luxitque antemurale[0’38]
27
Lectio I No 5: Teth[0’34]
28
Lectio I No 6: Defixae sunt in terra portae eius[1’20]
29
Lectio I No 7: Jod[0’31]
30
Lectio I No 8: Sederunt in terra[1’00]
31
Lectio I No 9: Abiecerunt in terram[0’59]
32
Lectio I No 10: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’38]
33
Lectio II No 1: Lamed[0’34]
34
Lectio II No 2: Matribus suis dixerunt[1’30]
35
Lectio II No 3: Mem[0’36]
36
Lectio II No 4: Cui comparabo te?[1’16]
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Lectio II No 5: Magna est enim velut mare contritio tua[0’44]
38
Lectio II No 6: Nun[0’35]
39
Lectio II No 7: Prophetae tui viderunt tibi falsa et stulta[1’30]
40
Lectio II No 8: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’18]
41
Lectio III No 1: Aleph[0’27]
42
Lectio III No 2: Ego vir videns paupertatem meam[0’49]
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Lectio III No 3: Aleph[0’48]
44
Lectio III No 4: Me minavit, et adduxit[0’44]
45
Lectio III No 5: Aleph[0’46]
46
Lectio III No 6: Tantum in me vertit[0’35]
47
Lectio III No 7: Beth[0’40]
48
Lectio III No 8: Vetustam fecit pellem meam[0’42]
49
Lectio III No 9: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’31]
Lamentations II for Holy Saturday ‘Sabbato Sancto'[25’10]
50
Lectio I No 1: De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae[0’37]
51
Lectio I No 2: Heth[0’54]
52
Lectio I No 3: Misericordiae Domini[1’29]
53
Lectio I No 4: Heth[0’50]
54
Lectio I No 5: Novi diluculo, multa est fides tua[0’45]
55
Lectio I No 6: Heth[0’42]
56
Lectio I No 7: Pars mea Dominus[0’43]
57
Lectio I No 8: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[1’43]
58
Lectio II No 1: Aleph[0’49]
59
Lectio II No 2: Quomodo obscuratum est aurum[1’23]
60
Lectio II No 3: Beth[0’45]
61
Lectio II No 4: Filii Sion inclyti[0’52]
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Lectio II No 5: Ghimel[0’35]
63
Lectio II No 6: Sed et lamiae nudaverunt mammam[0’45]
64
Lectio II No 7: Filia populi mei[0’53]
65
Lectio II No 8: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[2’04]
66
Lectio III No 1: Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae[0’51]
67
Lectio III No 2: Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis[1’03]
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Lectio III No 3: Haereditas nostra versa est ad alienos[0’51]
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Lectio III No 4: Pupilli facti sumus absque patre[0’42]
70
Lectio III No 5: Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus[1’56]
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Lectio III No 6: Patres nostri peccaverunt et non sunt[0’48]
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Lectio III No 7: Servi dominati sunt nostri[0’58]
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Lectio III No 8: Jerusalem, Jerusalem[2’12]

The members of Cinquecento turn to perhaps the pre-eminent composer of the sixteenth century: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been integral to the liturgical rites of Holy Week: here is one of the most sublime.