O Vos Omnes

Instrumentation

high voices (SSSA)

Other Information

Latin Motet with  text from the Lamentations of Jeremiah 1:12. (Translation: All ye who pass by the way, behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. Attend, all ye people, and behold my sorrow.) Ideal for performance in Holy Week.

This work is now published by Faber Music in their anthology: 30 Sacred Masterworks for Upper Voice Choir.

Commissioned by ´Cantamus´ girl´s choir (director Pamela Cook) and first performed by them in the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam, on Easter Saturday, 10th April 1982, and subsequently in Vienna, where the choir won first prize in the Vienna Youth Festival and the City of Vienna Prize, including the work in their programme. The work has been commercially recorded by Cantamus and is regularly included in the choir´s programmes home and abroad. The Halesowen Girls´ Choir, directed by Margaret Pickford, who have also performed the work on many occasions, included it as part of their recital in the Sainsbury´s Choir of the Year Competition in 1996, winning a place in the quarter finals.   Performed at  King´s Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts on August 22nd 2006 by the Millennium Scholars directed by Paula Downes.