Odi et amo
VOICING:
SSATTB - a cappella
LYRICS:
Catullus 85
YEAR OF COMPOSITION:
2011
DURATION:
3:00
Lyrics:
Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris.
Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior.
English translation:
I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.
The earliest musical setting of the Latin words is the six-part madrigal by Jacobus Handl Gallus at the end of the 16th century. As a great admirerer of music by Gesualdo,