“Crux Fidelis”. Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954)

“Crux Fidelis”
Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954)

St. Bartholomew’s Choir
Organist and Choirmaster Dr. Paolo Bordignon
Associate Organist and Choirmaster Alexander Pattavina
Margaret Bergmark-Williams, solo

Crux fidelis, inter omnes, arbor una nobilis.
Nulla silva talem profert fronde,
flore, germine.
Dulce lignum, dulces clavos,
dulce pondus sustinet.

Faithful Cross, the noblest of all trees,
no forest ever produced your like in leaf,
in flower, in seed.
Sweet wood to hold sweet nails
and bear sweet weight.

Words: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 530-c.609).