Adoramus te, Christe Choral single edition SATB

The French organist and composer Théodore Dubois, winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome and later professor and director of the famous Paris Conservatoire, used the piece Adoramus te, Christe (We Adore Thee, oh Christ) as the final chorus of his oratorio Les sept paroles du Christ (The Seven Last Words of Christ). This was given its first performance in 1867 in church of Sainte-Clotilde, where Dubois worked as an organist alongside César Franck. He set the text, which is also used as an antiphon in the Good Friday liturgy, as a simple chorale that provides space for the text to unfold within the setting. On this basis, even the slightest of crescendos achieves an impressive effect. Here, Dubois has succeeded in creating, within the smallest possible space, a piece of Passion music that is perfect in its form. To be sung with the original Latin or English lyrics.