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Completed in 2001, Beatitudines for choir and organ is based on the 1990 composition The Beatitudes, which has its English text from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5: 3–12). Beatitudines uses the same text in Latin. Due to the difference in language (length of words, number of syllables, accents), Arvo Pärt had to revise the existing music, while the strict transfer of the composition rules from one work to the other would have been impossible.
Beatitudines premiered on 24 June 2002 at the Monza San Pietro Martire Church, performed by the organist Matteo Riboldi and the Monza Cathedral choir, conducted by Giovanni Barzaghi. This version is dedicated to Giovanni Barzaghi and the Monza Cathedral choir.
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Concert: Sagra di San Giovanni – Beatitudines
Matteo Riboldi (organ), Cappella Musicale del Duomo di Monza , Giovanni Barzaghi (conductor)
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Beati pauperes spiritu, quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum.
Beati, qui lugent, quoniam ipsi consolabuntur.
Beati mites, quoniam ipsi possidebunt terram.
Beati, qui esuriunt et sitiunt iustitiam, quoniam ipsi saturabuntur.
Beati misericordes, quoniam ipsi misericordiam consequentur.
Beati mundo corde, quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt.
Beati pacifici, quoniam filii Dei vocabuntur.
Beati, qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam, quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum.
Beati estis cum maledixerint vobis et persecuti vos fuerint et dixerint omne malum adversum vos, mentientes, propter me.
Gaudete et exultate, quoniam merces vestra copiosa est in caelis. Sic enim persecuti sunt prophetas, qui fuerunt ante vos.
Amen.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the m…