Numquid et vos vultis abire?

http://www.romancatholicsacredmusic.com/seehear/koerberNumquid.mp3

http://www.romancatholicsacredmusic.com/seehear/koerberNumquid.pdf

Commentary

Jesus asks the question... "Are you also going to leave me?" The disciples, starting only with a single voice in response, "Lord, to whom can we go?". This gives confidence to other disciples, so when another one breaks in, "You have the words of eternal life", well, that opens the flood gates and they all echo the same sentiment (in imitation). Jesus sings in dejection (single note-stopped phrases) "Will you... also... leave me?", which is staggered by the confidence of his disciples in united voice. "Lord... you speak... life..." Then while the disciples are saying, "To whom can we go", Jesus breaks into a more hopeful mood (key changes to relative major) "Have I not chosen you twelve?" But then the unbearable thought enters into his mind, "and one of you is a devil". Well, that is too much for the disciples to hear, and now they repeat the same words back to Jesus that he had originally spoken to them, "Are you going to leave us?" They all sink into the depressing finale, all saying together, and thinking of each other, that same sad thought.

Mulier

Jesus pronounces his final words, and then we repose him to the grave with the Tantum Ergo.

http://www.romancatholicsacredmusic.com/seehear/mulier.mp3

http://www.romancatholicsacredmusic.com/seehear/mulier.pdf

Quid Me Quaeritis?

(final version)

Quid me quaeritis?
Unum opus feci, et omnes miramini.
Ego sum lux mundi: qui sequitur me, non ambulat in tenebris, sed habebit lumen vitæ.

Why seek you to kill me?
One work I have done: and you all wonder.
I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

http://www.romancatholicsacredmusic.com/seehear/quidMeQuaeritis.mp3

http://www.romancatholicsacredmusic.com/seehear/quidMeQuaeritis.pdf