- Title: Marian Antiphons
- Instrumentation: for 12 voices or mixed choir
- Year: 2016
- Duration: 18′
- Commissioner: Alter Ratio with financial support of the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Sciences in Kyiv (Ukraine)
- Premiere: 4th June 2017, Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, Kyiv, UA
- First performer: Alter Ratio, conductor – Olga Prykhodko
- Buy Score: Donemus Publishin
PROGRAM NOTE
‘I wanted to show [deepen, experience, expand, elucidate, lament, conceal, eternalise] the duality of opposing processes such as ascent and descent, but also that which is in between and beyond: that which gives us the power to believe, even when we’re falling precipitously. In the end, “…I don’t write this with any great understanding, I just like the way it sounds…” (Mark Z. Danielewski, “House of Leaves”)’
Maxim Shalygin
MOVEMENTS
I. Alma Redemptoris Mater
Alma Redemptóris Mater, quæ pérvia cæli
Porta manes, et stella maris, succúrre cadénti,
Súrgere qui curat pópulo: tu quæ genuísti,
Natúra miránte, tuum sanctum Genitórem
Virgo prius ac postérius, Gabriélis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatórum miserére.
II. Ave Regina Caelorum
Ave Regina caelorum,
Ave Domina Angelorum,
Salve radix, salve porta,
Ex qua mundo lux est orta.
Gaude, Virgo gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa,
Vale, O valde decora!
Et pro nobis Christum exora.
III. Regina Caeli
Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia,
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia,
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia,
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
O Queen of heaven, be joyful, alleluia,
For He whom you have humbly borne for us, alleluia,
Has arisen, as He promised, alleluia,
Offer now our prayer to God, alleluia.
IV. Salve, Regina
Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.