Associate Editor Ivan Reguli
Choirmaster Ondrej Demo
General Editor Ladislaus J Bolchazy PhD
Latin Editor Dirk Sacre
Music and Graphic Arrangement Viktor Stefanec
Senior Music Advisor Jan Cambal
Slovak Language Editor Emil Vontorcik
Translated by Bystrik Muransky

Description

This CD Resonantia Tatrae contains 27 Slovak songs and hymns translated into Latin and sung by Schola Cantorum Ioannis Pauli II, —Vajnory, Slovakia, directed by Ondrej Demo, with soloists and pianist. The 27 songs are chosen from the book Slovak Songs in Latin, Slovak, English: with 170 Music Scores and 93 Illustrations, published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., ISBN 978-0-86516-567-0.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

Latin translator: Bystrik Muransky (1907-1972), Slovak Catholic priest of the Society of Don Bosco. His family name is Anton Macak. Among his many professional achievements as a priest, teacher, historian and folklorist, Muransky completed his Latin translation of about 170 Slovak hymns and folk songs in 1963 under the title Resonantia Tatrae. This work remained as a manuscript in the hands of his colleague and friend Reverend Milan S. Durica, SDB, who took it with him into self-exile to Italy during the Communist regime in Slovakia.

In 2002, Durica donated this Latin manuscript to Ladislaus J. Bolchazy, with the hope it would be published by his firm Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Dr. Bolchazy immediately commissioned Dr. Emil Vontorčik to collect, edit, and digitize 170 corresponding Slovak lyrics; Mr. Viktor Štefanec to reproduce and typeset music scores; Dr. Dirk Sacré, of the University of Leuven, to edit the Latin version. Mgr. Ivan Reguli volunteered to oversee the project. After six years of work, the book containing these 170 Latin and Slovak versions with 46 English translations and 170 music scores was published in 2007.

The CD containing 27 Latin songs, performed and recorded by Schola Cantorum Ioannis Pauli II, of Vajnory, Slovakia, under the direction of Ondrej Demo, was published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.

Conductor: Ondrej Demo has a significant place in Central Europe as a musicologist and organizer of musical performances. He is the Choirmaster of John Paul II Choir in Vajnory, Slovakia, and the developer of “The Folk Music Instruments Orchestra of the Slovak Republic.”

Listen to a sample song from the CD: Saltatio

Special Features

1. Super Tatram fulmen (Nad Tatrou sa blýska) - The National Anthem of the Slovak Republic - Janko Matúška 1:20
2. Qui pro veritate (Kto za pravdu horí) - Miloš Rupelldt, Karol Kuzmány 2:53
3. O Slovaci (Hej, Slováci) - Samo Tomášik 1:47
4. Pectus nobis dolet (Hojže, Bože) - Andrej Sládkovič 1:53
5. Patria nostra (Slovensko moje) - Jozef Strečanský 2:57
6. Nitra mater cara (Nitra, milá Nitra) - Anonymous 1:52
7. Desiderium (Keby som vtáčkom) - Mikuláš Schneider Trnavský, Ferko Urbánek 3:16
8. O bella patria (Aká si mi krásna) - Eugen Suchoň, Peter Bella Horal 3:19
9. O Deus clemens (Bože, čos’ ráčil) - Mikuláš Schneider Trnavský, Ján Donoval Tichomír Milkin 2:10
10. Bonus Pastor (Dobrý Pastier sa narodil) - Andrej Hlinka, Ján Chládek 1:32
11. O pastores (Sem pospešte, nemeškajte) - Pavlín Bajan 2:21
12. Felix nuntium (Dobrá novina) - Andrej Ozym 1:44
13. Abies et praesepe (Čas radosti, veselosti) - Andrej Ozym 1:27
14. Jesu dona ferentes (Jak si krásne, Jezuliatko) - Anonymous 2:14
15. Laetus vita (Slovák som) - Traditional 3:20
16. Amoris patria (Láska, Bože, láska) - Traditional 3:02
17. Ver hiemi praefero (Pod tým naším okienečkom) - Traditional 3:41
18. Color mali (Sadla muška na konárik) - Traditional 3:59
19. Fugaces anni (Zahučali hory) - Traditional 3:34
20. Fatuus ille, sapiens illa (Tam okolo Levoči) - Traditional 3:30
21. Plaustrum magni ponderis (Ide ťažký furman k nám) - Traditional 3:40
22. Epistula iocosa (Prečo si neprišiel) - Traditional 1:59
23. Opilio senex (Ja som bača veľmi starý) - Traditional 3:55
24. Saltatio (Tancuj, tancuj) - Traditional 1:25
25. Illusus (Trenčianske hodiny) - Traditional 2:17
26. Vinum merum (Vínko, vínko, vínko červené) - Traditional 2:23
27. Pallens Marina (Išla Marína) - Traditional 1:01

Slovak Songs and Melodies on the Wings of Latin