Communion music
This week we shall be listening to “Lent Prose” (Plainchant), performed by Portsmouth Cathedral Choir.
The text is a translation of a Latin hymn (Attende Domine) speaking of the sinfulness of man and the mercy of God, and derived from the Lenten office of the ancient Mozarabic rite once generally used in Spain and Portugal.
The music is of anonymous composition, as is usual with plainchant, but traceable to a French missal of the 17th century.