Live performance at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels on 3 June 2012 chorus: Octopus Symphony Chorus orchestra: Le Concert d'Anvers conductor: Bart Van Reyn soprano: Ida Falk Winland tenor: Yves Saelens bass: Birger Radde more info: www.octopusensembles.be SONG OF JOY Hannah (soprano) & Lucas (tenor): How lovely the countryside looks now! Come, lasses, let us wander through the flowery meadows! How lovely the countryside looks now! Come, lads, let us wander to the leafy grove! Hannah (soprano): Look at the lilies, look at the roses, look at all the flowers! Lucas (tenor): Look at the meadows, the grassland, look at all the fields! Chorus: How lovely the countryside looks now! Let's wander through the flowery meadows! Hannah (soprano): Look at the earth, at the lakes and rivers, look at the bright sky! Lucas (tenor): All is alive, all is expectant, all nature bestirs itself. Hannah (soprano) & Lucas (tenor): See how the lambs are leaping! Look at the fish: what a milling around! See how the bees are swarming! Look at the birds: what a fluttering! Chorus: All is alive, all is expectant, all nature bestirs itself. How our hearts are swelling with happiness and delight! Tender feelings, soft sensations awake within our breasts. Simon (bass): The source of your emotion, your delight, is the breath of the Creator. Chorus: Let us glorify, praise and worship him! Raise your voices in a song of thanksgiving to him! Let us raise our voices in a song of thanksgiving to him! The eternal, the almighty, the bounteous God! Trio: From thy blessed table hast thou provided for us. Chorus: Almighty God! Trio: With the rivers of thy joy hast thou quenched our thirst. Merciful God! Chorus: Eternal, almighty, bounteous God! Eternal, almighty, bounteous God! Honour, praise and glory to the eternal, almighty, bounteous God!