Alonso Lobo, Versa est in luctum cithara mea

[megamole]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMikDjUPZ8

Surely one of the most beautiful, and saddest, motets ever written. Sung at the funeral of Philip II of Spain in 1598.

Versa est in luctum cithara mea, et organum meum in vocem flentium. Parce mihi, Domine, nihil enim sunt dies

Comments

[dicea]

Thank you for this, it was just what I needed today.

[grumpyolddog]

you keep your weeping organ to yourself.

[megamole]

Sadly I'm booked that day. But we must meet up soon. I will be in Cambridge in late May, if not before...

[emperor]

That's pretty fine, yes.