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Nicolas De Grigny
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Pange Lingua, en taille, à 4 Click to Listen, [3:16]
Unusually heady ornamentation, even for Grigny, on a sparkling plenum made by coupling Swell and Positiv to Hauptwerk, with the cantus sounded on the Bombarde 8' coupled to the pedal in slow notes. Midi File available. Instrument: Vladimir Grygar Organ at Church of the Holy Cross in Litomysl, Czech Republic (2001) - Samples by Jiri Zurek

Chorale Text
Latin:
Pange, lingua, gloriosi
Corporis mysterium,
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
quem in mundi pretium
fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit Gentium.
--Thomas Aquinas, 13th century

English:
Now, my tongue, the mystery telling,
Of the glorious body sing,
And the blood, all price excelling,
Which all mankind's Lord and King,
In a virgin's womb once dwelling,
Shed for this world's ransoming.
--tr. Edward Caswall, 1861

Audio track was created with Hauptwerk v. 1 software