Salve Regina
Composer: Henrique Coe
Recording: Mass at Paróquia do Sagrado Coração de Jesus in Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil at the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 2023.
Choir: Canarinhos de Petrópolis
Conductor: Marco Aurélio Lischt
NOTE:
Salve Regina, for SATB choir, was composed in 2019 for the boys choir Canarinhos de Petrópolis. It is based on the solemn Gregorian chant of the Salve Regina. It was sung for the first time by Canarinhos de Petrópolis, conducted by Marco Aurélio Lischt, on Sunday 20 August 2023 on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mass at Paróquia do Sagrado Coração de Jesus in Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil.
TEXT:
Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae: Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Hevae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia ergo, Advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens: O pia: O dulcis Virgo Maria. Amen.
TRANSLATION:
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.