Part of the longer hymn 'Pange lingua' by Venantius Fortunatus (c.540-c.600), the Crux Fidelis features in the Adoration of the Cross during the solemn liturgical actions of Good Friday, and at Lauds duringPassiontide. The reverence and awe of the words resonate in the poised strophes and silences of Ronald Corp's new setting for SATB, a memorable addition to the repertoire of music for times of penitence, and to thesurprisingly small corpus of interpretations, including those by Lennox Berkeley, Adrian Willaert, John Dunstable, and King John IV of Portugal (attributed), of this text in particular.
- ISMN: 9790220224751 (M220224751)
