The Tiger's Eye: Mozart - Ave verum corpus - Vienna boys choir

15 April 2007

Mozart - Ave verum corpus - Vienna boys choir

No one does it better.

Ave / verum / verum Corpus,
natum / de / Maria / Virgine
Vere / passum, /
Immolatum / in / cruce / pro / homine
Cujus / latus / perforatum, /
unda / fluxit / et / sanguine
Esto / nobis / praegustatum / in / mortis / examine.
(rough translation)
Hail, true Body, born of the Virgin Mary, who has truly suffered, and was sacrificed on the cross for mankind, whose side was pierced, whence flowed water and blood, Be for us a foretaste of heaven, during our final trial,