VOCES8: ’In Dulci Jubilo’ arr. Robert Pearsall

VOCES8 sings Robert Lucas Pearsall’s arrangement of the old German carol ’In Dulci Jubilo’ at the VOCES8 Centre in London. Text: In dulci jubilo Let us our homage shew; Our heart’s joy reclineth In praesepio And like a bright star shineth Matris in gremio. Alpha es et O! O Jesu parvule, I yearn for thee alway! Hear me, I beseech thee, O Puer optime! My praying let it reach thee, O Princeps gloriae! Trahe me post te! O Patris caritas, O Nati lenitas! Deeply were we stained Per nostra crimina; But thou for us hast gained Coelorum gaudia, O that we were there! Ubi sunt gaudia, Where, if that they be not there? There are angels singing Nova cantica, There the bells are ringing In Regis curia: O that we were there!