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  1. Agnus Dei - Sibelius Track

From the recording Agnus Dei

Created with Sibelius.
Setting of the 'Agnus Dei' as a musical reflection on the 'Agnus Dei' (“a small wax tablet stamped with the image of the Lamb of God notionally consecrated by the pope.”) that Mary Queen of Scots wore around her neck at her execution and handed to her favourite Lady of the Bedchamber, Jane Kennedy, rather than to Bull her executioner, as his ‘perquisites’.

for
Soprano Solo – Mary Queen of Scots
Soprano II – Jane Kennedy – favourite Lady of the Bedchamber
Soprano III – Elizabeth Curle – Lady of the Bedchamber
Baroque Violin
Bass Viol
Harpsichord (Mary Queen of Scots played the Virginals)

Lyrics

Agnus Dei
St. John the Baptist John I:29

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem,
dona eis requiem,
dona eis requiem sempiternam.