'O vos omnes'
From the album ‘Treasures of English Church Music’

Composer R. Vaughan Williams
Conductor John Rutter
Alto Frances Jellard
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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O vos omnes
This deeply-felt and impressive piece was written for the choir of Westminster Cathedral in 1922. It could be regarded as a pre-echo of the Mass in G minor of a few months later. 'O vos omnes' has a melodic contour influenced by Tudor polyphony, though its harmonies, made up chiefly of unrelated triads that follow the tune around, are more suggestive of Debussy.

LYRICS:
O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, attendite, et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus:
quoniam vindemiavit me, ut locutus est Dominus in die irae furoris sui.
De excelso misit ignem in ossibus meis, et erudivit me: expandit rete pedibus meis,
convertit me retrorsum: posuit me desolatum, tota die moerore confectam.
Vigilavit jugum iniquitatum mearum: in manu eius convolutae sunt, et impositae collo
meo: infirma est virtus mea: dedit me Dominus in manu, de qua non potero surgere.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum.
(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, which is done unto me, where the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his
fierce anger. From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath
spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all
the day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon
my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands,
from whom I am not able to rise up. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return to the Lord thy God.)

Treasures of English Church Music
46 tracks of English a cappella church music, featuring John Rutter conducting the Cambridge Singers, and recorded in the inspiring setting of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral.

“A marvellous collection taken from all ages of Church Music – a mix of the popular and the slightly rarer. This is recorded in Ely Cathedral and it seems to have projected itself into some wonderfully lyric pieces – the opening track of Parsons Ave Maria sets the scene for the rest of the music. This is the Cambridge Singers at their best…” Cathedral Music

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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