Apollo5: Gaude Virgo Mater Christi - Josquin des Prez

The award-winning British vocal group Apollo5 sings Josquin des Prez’s powerful motet ’Gaude Virgo Mater Christi’. Gaude, virgo mater Christi, Quae per aurem concepisti, Gabriele nuntio. Gaude, quia Deo plena Peperisti sine poena, Cum pudoris lilio. Gaude, quia tui nati Quem dolebas mortem pati, Fulget resurrectio. Gaude Christo ascendente, Et in coelum te vidente, Motu fertur proprio. Gaude quae post ipsum scandis, Et est honor tibi grandis, In caeli palatio. Ubi fructus ventris tui, Nobis detur per te frui, In perenni gaudio. Alleluia. Rejoice, virgin mother of Christ who hast conceived by ear, with Gabriel as messenger. Rejoice, for full of God thou gavest birth without pain, with the lily of purity. Rejoice, for the resurrection of thy Son now shines, whose death thou mourned, Rejoice, as Christ ascends, and, in thy sight, is carried into heaven by his own streng