Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: The Gate of Hell
• Composer:  Joseph Dillon Ford
• Voices:  ATBarB
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Sacred
• The Gate of Hell
  The first of three movements by composer Joseph Dillon Ford for male chorus based on Dante's La Divina Commedia (L'Inferno), sung by the dwsChorale.
  Video recreated in honour of the composer
  Per me si va ne la città d...  moreThe Gate of Hell
  The first of three movements by composer Joseph Dillon Ford for male chorus based on Dante's La Divina Commedia (L'Inferno), sung by the dwsChorale.
  Video recreated in honour of the composer
  Per me si va ne la città dolente,
  per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
  Through me is the way to the sorrowful city,
  Through me is the way to eternal sorrow,
  
  per me si va tra la perduta gente.
  Through me is the way among the lost people.
  
  Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
  fecemi la divina potestate,
  la somma sapienza
  e 'l primo amore;
  Justice moved my exalted maker
  Divine power, supreme wisdom
  and the first love made me
  
  dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
  se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
  Before me were no created beings
  Only things eternal and I continue for ever
  
  Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch' intrate.
  Abandon all hope you who enter here.  less