Beati Quorum Via

Charles Villiers Stanford

 

Beati quorum via integra est: qui ambulant in lege Domini 

 

Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way: and walk in the law of the Lord. 

 

 

About the piece:

Three Latin Motets, Op. 38, is a collection of three sacred motets based on Latin texts for mixed unaccompanied choir by Charles Villiers Stanford, comprising Justorum animae, Coelos ascendit hodie and Beati quorum via. The texts come from different sources, and the scoring is for four to eight parts. They were published by Boosey & Co in 1905. The works, some of Stanford's few settings of church music in Latin, have remained in the choral repertoire internationally and are performed in liturgies and concert.

 

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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924)
Was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.