Thomas Tallis - The Lamentations of Jeremiah I

The Queen's Six perform Tallis' setting of vv. 1-2 of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, traditionally read at the Tenebrae service on Maundy Thursday. Audio Recording - Tim Carleston Video Recording - Andrew Thompson Incipit Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae 1:1 ALEPH. Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! Facta est quasi vidua domina gentium; princeps provinciarum facta est sub tributo. 1:2 BETH. Plorans ploravit in nocte, et lacrimæ ejus in maxillis ejus: non est qui consoletur eam, ex omnibus caris ejus; omnes amici ejus spreverunt eam, et facti sunt ei inimici. Ierusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum. Here begins the Lamentation of Jeremiah the Prophet 1:1 ALEPH. How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal. 1:2 BETH. She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies. Jerusalem, return to the Lord thy God.