Whether you find the Brokeback theme a distraction or not, it's one of the better recordings on youTube.
The youTubester writes:
I have set these clips from the movie Brokeback Mountain to the song "O Vos Omnes," which was composed by Tomás Luis de Victoria. Victoria's setting of "O Vos Omnes" is of the greatest choral masterpieces of the Renaissance, indeed of all Western music. The text itself, taken from Lamentations 1:12 is one of the most beautiful and moving Latin sacred texts:
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam,
attendite, et videte,
si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
Attendite, universi populi,
et videte dolorem meum,
si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
Here is the translation:
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
Behold, all ye people of this earth,
to see if there be any sorrow
like unto mine.
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam,
attendite, et videte,
si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
Attendite, universi populi,
et videte dolorem meum,
si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.
Here is the translation:
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
Behold, all ye people of this earth,
to see if there be any sorrow
like unto mine.
