Lumina + Lyrebyrd: Medieval music - Stella splendens (Anon, Montserrat Codex) LIVE in concert 2018

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Lumina 'nuns' joined with Lyrebyrd Consort for this performance of the beautiful 'Stella Splendens' from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (aka Montserrat Codex), a manuscript containing anonymous pilgrim's songs from the famous monastery on the Montserrat mountain near Barcelona in Spain.
Performed live in concert, 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival 'A Medieval Marketplace' Burnside Town Hall, Burnside, South Australia.
Players: Meg Pope (harp), Sarah Lea (bowed psaltery), Saam Thorne (rebec) and Bronwyn Day (finger cymbals)
Singers ('nuns'): Melinda Pike, Kate Tretheway, Penny Dally, Jo Pike, Fiona O'Connor and Dahlia Kukolj
Camera-work by Megan Oxenham & Brendan Kearns. Sound Recording by Kenneth Pope. Film-clip by Anna Pope.
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Text:
Stella splendens in monte Ut solis radium
Miraculis serrato, Exaudi populum.
Concurrunt universi Gaudentes populi, Divites et egeni, Grandes at parvuli, Ipsum ingrediuntur, Ut cernunt oculi, Et inde revertuntur Gratiis repleti.
Principes at magnates Ex stirpe regia, Saeculi potestates Obtenta venia Peccaminum proclamant Tundentes pectora, Poplite flexo clamant Hic: Ave Maria.

English translation:
Resplendent star of the mountain, like a sunbeam miraculously glowing, hear your people.
They all flock together, glad peoples rich and poor, high and low; they climb the mountain as soon as they see it and return from it full of grace.
Leaders and nobles of royal stock, the world's mighty who possess grace, proclaim their sins, beat their breasts and on bended knee cry this: Hail Mary.