Lumina + Lyrebyrd: Medieval music - Ad mortem festinamus (Anon Montserrat Codex C14) LIVE in concert

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Lumina loves the way the meaning of the piece is reflected in the way we perform it - speeding up towards the end. A bit like life...
Performed live in concert, 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival 'A Medieval Marketplace' Burnside Town Hall, Burnside, South Australia.
Performed by Lumina Vocal Ensemble and the Lyrebyrd Consort conducted by Anna Pope:
Strings: Saam Thorne (rebec) & Eleanor Pope (bass viol)
Recorders: Rachel Sag
Percussion: Sarah Lea (tambourine), Bronwyn Day (bass drum) & Kenneth Pope (hand drum)
Singers: Meg Pope, Sarah Lea, Kate Tretheway, Rosemary Byron-Scott, Penny Dally, Dahlia Kukolj, Mel Pike, Jo Pike, Tim Muecke, Fiona O’Connor, Peter Mahoney, Kenneth Pope, Clive Conway, Angus Wallace & Toby Gilbert
Camera-work by Megan Oxenham & Brendan Kearns. Sound Recording by Kenneth Pope. Film-clip by Anna Pope.
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Text: Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.
Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano, ut degentes seculi non mulcentur in vano. Iam est hora surgere a somno mortis pravo.
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.

Translation: We fly at speed towards death, so let us have done with sinning. My message is about contempt for the world, so that our unworthy age will not be lost in vanity. Now is the time to rise up and prepare for our long sleep in death. Short life shortens and shortly ends. Death is coming very quickly, but no-one thinks so. Death destroys all and pities none.