I’ve already done this as “My Loving Saviour, How Have I Offended You” from CWB I and the backing there is not terrible really.

The tune is HERZLIEBSTER JESU by Johann Cruger, harmonised by Johann Sebastian Bach. The confronting t...

I have blogged various versions of this in English with excruciating backings.

This is the Latin version of this Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Quinas set to PLAINSONG ADORO TE [1], for which de Luca gives his own arrangement.

Whic...

This is, of course, “The Three Drovers,” I have all the details of this song noted already from blogging it in the Praise to God collection.

Comparing that to the sheet music in this collection, the arrangement is the same but de Luca has made the sheet m...

This is a translation by K. W. Blount from over three hundred years ago, of a Latin text Vexilla regis prodeunt by Venantius Fortunatus that is roughly 1500 years old. It is set to PLAINSONG VEXILLA REGIS here arranged by John de Luca.

de Luca says the translation is “et al” and there are many variations in the text – I have typed his version.

I have blogged this before in AOV, but I love the song so I’m doing it again here.

The text is by Henry Francis Lyle a...