EPIPHANY HYMN CHRISTE QUI SPLENDOR
From the Liturgia Horarum, translation by R. F. Littledale (1833-1890)
Gregorian Notation and Text (Solesmes 1983)
NLM: An Ancient Hymn for Compline During Lent
History, Gregorian Notation, A Translation, and
The chant of Sarum can be found in the website Music of the Sarum Rite: Dominica prima Quadragesima, p. 855.
Several composers have set this hymn in music. Here are the beautiful alternating polyphonic verses written by Robert White (c. 1538 † 1574), they are sung here with the Sarum chant:
Christe qui splendor et dies
Himnes i Salms
Christe Qui Splendor - At Christmastide
Chants and Rants
Sung Latin with Gregorian Notation
and English Translation at bottom
Christe qui lux et dies Seraphim Singers
Christe qui lux es et dies | The Seraphim Singers | Richard J. Clark
RJC Cecilia Music
Premiered by the Seraphim Singers | Jennifer Lester, Conductor
February 2, 2014, Candlemas -- Feast of the Presentation
First Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Recorded LIVE: February 7, 2014 at St. Cecilia Church, Boston, Massachusetts
A Clerk of Oxford: History of Translations of this Hymn
O Christ who art the light and day
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