Adoramus te, Christe

General Information

Adoramus te, Christe, is an Antiphon for Good Friday Liturgy.

Settings by composers

Anonymous unknown (19c?) SAB Codex Montecassino a 4 Paolo Agostini a 4= Gregor Aichinger a 4 Felice Anerio a 4 Giovanni Matteo Asola a 4= Johannes Brahms SSAA Fritz Brodersen a 4 William Byrd A with 4 viols Adrian Cuello a 4 Fabio Fresi a 4 Mariano Garau a 4 Quirino Gasparini a 4; attributed to Mozart Carlo Gesualdo a 6 Charles H. Giffen a 2 Jacob Handl a 6 a 8 M. Konz unison w/ keyboard Orlando di Lasso a 3= a 4 a 5

Giovanni Battista Martini a 3= Claudio Merulo a 6 Claudio Monteverdi a 6 attributed to Mozart (but believed to be by Quirino Gasparini) a 4 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina attributed to Palestrina in 19th C., SATB pari voci (SSAA or TTBB) SATB Clemens non Papa a 4 Giacomo Antonio Perti a 4 Giuseppe Pitoni a 4 Oreste Ravanello a 3 Francesco Rosselli a 4 a 4 Vincenzo Ruffo a 4= Wietse Stuurman a 4 Ascanio Trombetti a 6 Bartolomeo Tromboncino a 4 Stefano Venturi a 7 Geert Verhallen a 4 Ludovico da Viadana a 4 José Maria Xavier a 4 & oechestra Mikolaj Zielenski a 4

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Théodore Dubois — Adoramus Te Christe
• Charles Gounod — Adoramus te, CG 132

Texts and translations

Latin text Byrd, Gasparini, Gesualdo, Merulo Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi: quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.   Latin text Lasso, Clemens non Papa Adoramus te, Christe et benedicimus tibi. Quia per tuam sanctam crucem redemisti mundum. Domine, miserere nobis. Toi(Alleluia)   Latin text Rosselli, Brahms, Zielenski, Brodersen Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi, quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. Qui passus es pro nobis, Domine, miserere nobis.   Latin text Monteverdi Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. Quia per sanguinem tuum pretiosum redemisti mundum. Miserere nobis.   Latin text Handl, Martini Adoramus te Christe, Adoramus te Jesu, et benedicimus tibi. Quia per crucem tuam redemisti mundum.   Latin text Ruffo, Trombetti, Verhallen Adoramus te Christe, et benedicimus tibi: quia per sanctam crucem tuam et passionem tuam, redemisti mundum. (Domine), miserere nobis.

English translation Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee: because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world.   English translation Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world. O Lord, have mercy upon us.   English translation Translation supplied by The St. Ann Choir, directed by William Mahrt We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world. O Lord, who suffered for us, have mercy on us.   French translation Monteverdi Nous t'adorons, Ô Christ, et te bénissons, Toi qui, par ton sang précieux, as racheté le monde. Aie pitié de nous.   {{Translation|Spanish| Di Lasso, Clemens non Papa Te adoramos, o Cristo, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz, has redimido al mundo. O Señor, ten piedad de nosotros. Chinese translation 基督，我們讚美你， 因你以十字聖架， 救贖了普世。 主，求你垂憐。   Croatian translation Klanjamo Ti se Kriste i blagoslivljamo Tebe jer si svojim svetim Križem svijet otkupio. Gospodine, smiluj se nama.   Hungarian translation Monteverdi Imádunk téged Krisztus, és áldunk téged, Mert drága véred által megváltottad a világot. Irgalmazz nekünk.   Slovenian translation Byrd, Gasparini, Gesualdo, Merulo Molimo te Kristus in te hvalimo, ker si s svojim svetim križem svet odrešil. Monteverdi Molimo te Kristus in te hvalimo, ker si s svojo dragoceno krvjo svet odrešil. Usmili se nas.

External links

• Wikipedia article