O mysteria
Category
Christmas Carols
Opus
127
Catalogue no
GS 
050
Instrumentation
solo flute, choir SSAATTBB
DATE
2009
Duration
4 
mins
Publisher
Giles Swayne
programme note

Written for the choir of Clare College, Cambridge and first performed by them under their conductor Tim Brown with Daniel Pailthorpe (solo flute) at St. John's, Smith Square, London on 16th December, 2009

texts

O mysteria quae rerum natura creavit!
Mutat enim mundi naturam totius aetas.
Materies opus est ut crescant postera saecla,
Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu.
Omnia commutat rerum natura creatrix;
O mysteria quae rerum natura creavit!

from Books II and V of De rerum natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus (95-55 BCE)
[lines 1 and 5 are by Giles Swayne, after Lucretius]

 

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