Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina

This setting of a well-known Latin Introit is ideal for liturgical occasions during Septuagesima and Lent, when the Alleluia is traditionally replaced by a different acclamation. Martini’s SATB motet is a powerful and flowing setting that would grace any service. The text, beginning Deus in adjutorium meum intende, calls for God’s speedy help and concludes with the Gloria Patri. It is a prayer for divine assistance and praise, rendered with clarity and devotional spirit in this masterly sacred composition.