Lumina + Lyrebyrd: Medieval music - Stella splendens in monte (Montserrat Codex C14)

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Montserrat Codex - 'Stella splendens in monte' presented by Lumina Vocal Ensemble and Lyrebyrd Consort, director Anna Pope. 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 here in concert by Lumina Vocal Ensemble during the heat-wave of the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Recorded by Rod Capon in St John's, Halifax St, Adelaide. SIngers: Ange Randall ~ Saam Thorne ~ Renate Fetzer ~ Rosemary Byron-Scott ~ Rachel Sag ~ Anna Pope ~ Tim Muecke. Instrumentalists from Lyrebyrd Consort: Saam Thorne (rebec), Jon Addison (harp) and Benard Mageean (finger cymbols) recorded live in 'Italy vs Spain', Crafers Church of the Epiphany, 2008 by Ray Thomas and Les Thomas. Images from Montserrat, NASA and the Sevenhill Church in South Australia. This is one of a series of pieces which Lumina have recorded from the Montserrat Codex, and is included in their CD 'Mediaeval Magic'. www.luminavocal.com.au

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.