‘Quem Vidistis Pastores’
As we continue the season of Advent, looking forward to Christmas, we offer our recording of ‘Quem Vidistis Pastores’, the second of Francis Poulenc’s ‘Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël’.
Click this link: https://youtu.be/yxw5sM6sXog
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Latin text:
Quem vidistis pastores dicite,
annuntiate nobis in terris quis apparuit?
Natum vidimus et choros angelorum
collaudantes Dominum.
Dicite quidnam vidistis?
et annuntiate Christi nativitatem.
Natum vidimus et choros angelorum
collaudantes Dominum.
English translation:
Shepherds, tell us who you have seen; who has appeared to us on earth?
We have seen the new-born and the choir of Angels together praising the Lord.
Tell what you have seen and announce the birth of Christ.
We have seen the new-born and the choir of Angels together praising the Lord.
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The video montage shows various 15th-17th Century artists’ depictions of the ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’.
In sequence:
- Le Nain brothers, c.1640, oil on canvas
- Angelo Bronzino, c.1539-40, oil on poplar wood
- Lorenzo di Credi, c.1510, oil on panel
- Mattia Preti, between 1660-1699, oil on canvas
- Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1485, oil on panel