O Fili et Filiae

Il Baciccio, The Women at the Tomb, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c.1685

O Fili et Filiae

Click to read about O Filii et Filiae in the 1913 Catholic Encyclodia.

Click for the
Latin text and prose translation and translations by John Neale Mason and Edward Caswell.

Click for the text of the English version sung by The Cathedral Singers, Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal).

Click to hear, on YouTube, Giovanni Vianini, director of the Schola Gregoriana Mediolanensis, chant O Fili et Filiae in Gregorian.

Click to listen to Richard Proulx and The Cathedral Singers (of Chicago) sing O Fili et Filiae (O Sons and Daughters) in English [text].


Click to listen to Sinead O'Connor sing O Filii et Filiae in Latin [text with translation].

Click to listen on YouTube to Jean-François Dandrieu, O Fili et Filiae, performed by Anne Foulard, on the 1856 Merklin-Schutze organ of the Church of St-Eugène in Paris.

To listen to
Jean-François Dandrieu, Variations on an Easter Carol, performed by Wilma Jensen on the 1986 Casavant organ of St. George's Church, Nashville, TN, click here, then click on "Listen to Program," then hold button and slide to 51:54 (51 minutes and 54 seconds).

To listen to Alexandre Boëly, Offertoire pour le Jour de Paques, Op. 38, no. 10, based on the hymn, O Fili et Filiae, performed by
Daniel Roth on the 1862 Cavaillé-Coll organ of Bayeux Cathedral, click here then click on "Listen to the Program," then hold button and slide to 6:06 (6 minutes and 6 seconds), immediately followed by Jean Langlais, Fugue on O filii et Filiae, performed by Christoph Kuhlmann on the 1995 Weyland organ of Saint Andreas Church, Cologne. To listen only to Jean Langlais, click here, then click on "Listen to the Program," then hold button and slide to 11:50 (11 minutes and 50 seconds).

To listen to Lynwood Farnham, Toccata on O Filii et Filiae, performed by
Frederick Swann on the Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118 organ of Riverside Church, New York City, click here, then click on "Listen to the Program," then hold button and slide to 9:42 (9 minutes and 42 seconds).

To listen to Alexandre Guilmant, Offertoire, ‘O filii’, Op. 49, no. 2, performed by Robert Delcamp on the 2004 Casavant organ of the University of the South, Sewanee, TN, click here, then click on "Listen to the Program," then hold button and slide to 3:07 (3 minutes and 7 seconds).

To listen to
John Rutter, Variations on an Easter Theme, performed by David Hill & Stephen Farr on the 1986 Harrison organ of Winchester Cathedral, click here, the click on "Listen to the Program," then hold button and slide to 42:45 (42 minutes and 45 seconds).