"There Is No Rose" Philip Stopford | Portsmouth Cathedral Choir (David Price)

The four-part, SATB, unaccompanied setting of the medieval text "There Is No Rose" by British composer Philip Stopford (*1977) in a splendid performance by the Portsmouth Cathedral Choir (Senior Girls and Boys) conducted by Dr. David Price, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Portsmouth Cathedral. Taken from BBC 2023 - Midnight Mass from Portsmouth Cathedral broadcasted on 24/12/2023: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...
There is No Rose is an old musical piece that celebrates the birth of Christ but in a form of a resurrection of life. It was first presented in 1420, at the time when the Renaissance was starting to take its form; the population was regenerating after the era of the Bubonic Plague wiped out half the population on the European continent, and with that, the era of peace was upon the population. Furthermore, the Renaissance ushered in the age of modernity and the revival of philosophy, religion and even music. The Carol was reportedly written by Trinity College in Manchester as one of thirteen carols, less than a century before the great Reformation under Martin Luther. While we don’t know who wrote this nor what the motive behind the work is about, the words written were in Middle English, appearing in five verses as follows:
There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu: Alleluia
For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space: Res miranda
By that rose we may well see
There be one God in persons three: Pares forma
The angels sungen the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis Deo: Gaudeamus
Leave we all this worldly mirth
And follow we this joyful birth: Transeamus
🎥 © BBC (2023)
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Absolutely beautiful!

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