'O vos omnes'
From the album ‘Images of Christ’

Composer Pablo Casals
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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O vos omnes
'O vos omnes' is believed to date from 1932 and is one of a number of sacred pieces Casals wrote for the Benedictine monks of Montserrat, an abbey near his native city of Barcelona. Originally for tenors and basses, it was recast by the composer for mixed choir and published in that form in 1965 in New York.

LYRICS:
O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, attendite, et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus.
(from the Office of Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday: Lamentations of Jeremiah 1, vv. 12–14)

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

Images of Christ
Around the figure of Christ there has grown up over the centuries a body of choral literature that can only be described as among the most remarkable in western civilization. The music of this recording, all for a cappella choir, is grouped loosely according to the themes of its texts (The Coming of Christ, Words of Christ, The Passion of Christ, Resurrection and Ascension, Christ in the Eucharist), drawing together composers as far apart in time and space as 11th-century France; 20th-century Russia and America. The aim is not a liturgical reconstruction, nor an historical survey, but rather a journey of the imagination.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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