Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
***** The text is by Fray Luis de Leon (1527-1591), Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic of the Spanish Golden Age.
"When I contemplate heaven, adorned with countless stars, and [then] I look toward the ground, surrounded by night in dream and buried in oblivion.... love and longing awake the passion in my soul....the eyes like founts beyond control, Loarte, and I finally say with painful voice, "Oh!" [I realize] I am in a temple of light and beauty...my soul was born to soar ... "What it is, what it shall be, and all that was?"
Join the over 4,300 subscribers to Randall's channel, and see/hear the other 106 videos he has created. Several new works have just been recorded, including his new extended (six-movement) work, IN PARADISUM - just released. (Go to zrstroope.com to listen and see a score.)
***** The text is by Fray Luis de Leon (1527-1591), Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic of the Spanish Golden Age.
"When I contemplate heaven, adorned with countless stars, and [then] I look toward the ground, surrounded by night in dream and buried in oblivion.... love and longing awake the passion in my soul....the eyes like founts beyond control, Loarte, and I finally say with painful voice, "Oh!" [I realize] I am in a temple of light and beauty...my soul was born to soar ... "What it is, what it shall be, and all that was?"
Join the over 4,300 subscribers to Randall's channel, and see/hear the other 106 videos he has created. Several new works have just been recorded, including his new extended (six-movement) work, IN PARADISUM - just released. (Go to zrstroope.com to listen and see a score.)
