Video Information

• Choir: RSCM course in Canterbury
• Piece: Dum transisset Sabbatum
• Composer:  John Taverner
• Conductor:  Martin How
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical, Sacred, Renaissance, Cathedral Music
• [Dum transisset] Sabbatum,
  Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi
  et Salome emerunt aromata,
  ut venientes ungerent Jesum.
  Alleluia.
  
  [When] the Sabbath [was past],
  Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James
  more[Dum transisset] Sabbatum,
  Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi
  et Salome emerunt aromata,
  ut venientes ungerent Jesum.
  Alleluia.
  
  [When] the Sabbath [was past],
  Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James
  and Salome had bought sweet spices,
  that they might come and anoint Jesus.
  Alleluia.
  
  Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How.
  I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos.
  John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.
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