Rihards Dubra – Lūgšana (Prayer)

Good Shepherd Choir
Dr. Kristina Rizzotto, director

Recorded at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Videos like these take many days to make and hours of very focused attention, as well as expensive equipment. Please consider supporting the production of more high quality recordings like this by donating to my YouTube channel using either of the two PayPal links below:

Thank you!

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Lūgšana – Rihards Dubra (b. 1964)

Uz Tevi, Kungs,
es paceļu savu dvēseli, mans Dievs,
uz Tevi es ceru,
nepamet mani kaunā,
lai mani ienaidnieki par mani nepriecājas.
Kungs, dari man zināmus Tavus ceļus,
māci man Tavas tekas!
Vadi mani Tavā patiesībā un māci mani,
jo Tu esi mans Dievs, kas palīdz.
Uz Tevi es gaidu vienumēr.
Piemini, Kungs, Savu laipnību, Savu žēlsirdību un žēlastību,
kas ir mūžīga.
Nepiemini manus jaunības grēkus
un pārkāpumus,
bet piemini mani pēc Savas žēlastības
Savā lielajā laipnībā, ak, Kungs!

In you, Lord my God,
I put my trust.
I trust in you;
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, Lord, are good. (Psalm 25, Latvian)

[liesmazarina]

This is one of my favourite Christian songs! It is so great to hear Latvian song in such strong, poweful, beautiful performance! And pronunciation is good enough too. 😉

[ilzezepa]

Grazie di cuore!! Sono meravigliosi il coro, il suono ed il brano!

[andre]

Very well done! It seems to me that for great quality sacred music we have to be in Lativa....

[yordankaacosta]

Gorgeous performance and piece!! I wish I could join you, but I live in Miami. Anyways, thank you!

[charlesgiffen]

Perfection! ... in every aspect of every dimension. I've posted this to the CMAA MusicaSacra forums. Thank you, from Hudson, Wisconsin.

[catnipper]

That was beautiful. Wondering if I heard an overtone at the very end? If so, that even makes it more beautiful!

[norakhallouf]

Big fan of the soprano using her full voice, with such warmth and a lovely vibrato! At the end, I would have set her free instead of reigning it in though. Now the end sounds a little flat because of the conductor's preference which is a pity really :/ but overall really sumptuous sound, beautiful legato phrases - well done to the team :):):)!

[JānisLulle]

Are these really american singers and not exile latvians? They really put in shame thousands of russian occupant " liberators" ( read : colonizers ) who even after 20 or more years living in Latvia still don't speak lavian.