Gesualdo - Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday

Carlo Gesualdo
Responsories for Holy Week (Latin: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta) are polyphonic settings for the matins responsories, not of the whole of Holy Week, but only of the last three days: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
Until the 1955 reform of the Holy Week ceremonies by Pope Pius XII, matins and lauds of these days were normally anticipated on the evening of the preceding day and were celebrated with the special ceremonies of Tenebrae. As a result, the readings and the responsories are sometimes associated respectively with Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, rather than with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
Also before 1955 the term Triduum Sacrum, which now includes Easter Sunday and takes in only the close of Maundy Thursday, was applied to the whole of Maundy Thursday, including its matins, and excluded Easter Sunday.
Composers who produced polyphonic settings for the responsories in question, which are known also as the Tenebrae responsories, include Carlo Gesualdo (Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, 1611, Jean L'Héritier, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 19 settings (H 111 -119, H 126 - 134 and H 144), Joseph Haydn (Hob XXIIb), Jan Dismas Zelenka (ZWV 55), Max Reger, Francis Poulenc, Pierre Boulez. Composers generally set to music only some of the 27 responsories.
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday
1. Sicut ovis occisionem 3:44
2. Jerusalem, surgem 3:31
3. Plange quasi virgo 5:28
4. Recessit pastor noster 3:39
5. O vos omnes 3:36
6. Ecce quomoso moritur iustus 5:46
7. Astiterunt reges 2:25
8. Aestimatus sum 3:49
9. Sepulto Domino 5:30
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[@NiallMS1]

What a wonderful composer Gesualdo was; I love his music. Thank goodness for KZbin; I have discovered so much!

[@MichaelBGernert]

00:00 - 1. Sicut ovis occisionem 03:44 - 2. Jerusalem, surgem 07:15 - 3. Plange quasi virgo 12:43 - 4. Recessit pastor noster 16:22 - 5. O vos omnes 19:58 - 6. Ecce quomoso moritur iustus 25:44 - 7. Astiterunt reges 28:09 - 8. Aestimatus sum 31:58 - 9. Sepulto Domino

[@TheJamesalden]

This is truly helpful and so much appreciated...THANK YOU!!...

[@fireemblem2770]

THANK YOU!!!

[@marytountas1989]

Beautiful

[@niccolopaganini73]

Io sono il primo a commento!!!!!!!!!!!

[@briantisdall7852]

RCC Tenebrae when expertly performed on Wednesday, Thursday, and Good Friday is, next to the creeping to the cross, the most moving part of Holy Week, Hoverver Rome has a lot to learn from the Greek Orthodox, particularly on how to offices, scriptural raadings can be celebrated effectively and with great beauty with a congregation, and without having to put on a concert performance. A few pages should be taken from the Orthodox and Anglican traditions for Holy Week, particularly the strong emphasis in the former upon Jesus' descent into Hades to release the souls of the just and to break the gates of bronze The imagery and symbolism, not to mention the theological content, is as powerful as the Christology derived from researching and commemorating the crucifixion itself. Unfortunately, Christ's descent into Hades outside of the fine arts, especially painters, muralist, and sculpture, receives scant attention liturgically in the Roman rite. This wasn't always the case in the early Middle Ages In this regard, the Orthodox have it all over Rome like the proverbial tent. They fill a gaping hole in the Holy Week concentration on Christ's passion and death, whether that life is largely truth or legend.

[@screambeyond]

You, as a Christian, should learn some humility, and/plus not relying some much on pseudo-theological argument to vent you vanity, pride and chauvinism against the Catholic church. Besides, you could put some effort in understanding why the Catholic Holy Week is rendered that way, instead of talking from vain assumptions.

[@vwissler5470]

Responsorium 4: RECESSIT PASTOR Recessit pastor noster fons aquae vivae ad cuius transitum sol obscuratus est: Nam et ille captus est, qui captivum tenebat primum hominem: hodie portas mortis et seras pariter Salvator noster disrupit. Verse: Destruxit quidem claustra inferni et subvertit potentias diaboli. {Nam et ille…] Alternative verse Ante cuius conspectum mors fugit, Ad cuius vocem mortui resurgent: Videntes autem eum portae mortis confractae sunt. Responsorium 5: O VOS OMNES O vos ómnes qui transítis per víam, atténdite et vidéte: Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus. V. Atténdite, univérsi pópuli, et vidéte dolórem méum. Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus. Responsorium 6: ECCE QUOMOSO Ecce quomodo moritur justus et nemo percipit corde. Viri justi tolluntur et nemo considerat. A facie iniquitatis sublatus est justus et erit in pace memoria eius: Tamquam agnus coram tondente se obmutuit, et non aperuit os suum: de angustia, et de judicio sublatus est. Et erit in pace memoria ejus. Alternative verse In pace factus est locus ejus et in Sion habitatio ejus.

[@vwissler5470]

Responsorium 7: ASTITERUNT REGES Astiterunt reges terrae, et principes convenerunt in unum, adversus Dominum et adversus Christum eius. Quare fremuerunt gentes, et populi meditati sunt inania? Adversus Dominum et adversus Christum eius. Responsorium 8: AESTIMATUS SUM Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum, factus sum sicut homo sine adjutorio, inter mortuos liber. Versus: Posuerunt me in lacu inferiori, in tenebrosis et in umbra mortis. Factus sum sicut homo sine adjutorio, inter mortuos liber. Resonsorium 9: SEPULTO DOMINO Sepulto Domino, signatum est monumentum, Volventes lapidem ad ostium monumenti, Ponentes milites qui custodirent illum. Versus: Accedentes principes sacerdotum ad Pilatum, petierunt illum. Gorczycki: In pace factus est locus eius, et in Sion habitatio eius. Handl: Ne forte veniant discipuli eius, et furentur eum, et dicant plebi: surrexit ad mortuis. Ponentes milites qui custodirent illum.

[@vwissler5470]

Responsorium: SICUT OVIS Sicut ovis ad occisionem ductus est, Et dum male tractaretur, non aperuit os suum : Traditus est ad mortem ut vivificaret populum suum. Versus: Tradidit in mortem animam suam, Et inter sceleratos reputatus est. Responsorium: JERUSALEM, SURGE Jerusalem, surge, et exue te vestibus jucunditatis; induere te cinere et cilicio: quia in te occisus est Salvator Israel. Deduc quasi torrentem lacrimas per diem et noctem, et non taceat pupilla oculi tui. Quia in te occisus est Salvator Israel. Responsorium: PLANGE QUASI Plange quasi virgo, plebs mea. Ululate pastores, in cinere et cilicio, Quia veniet Dies Domini Magna Et amara valde. Versus: Accingite vos, sacerdotes, et plangite, Ministri altaris, aspergite vos cinere.