My All-Time Favorite Setting of the Cherubimic Hymn

Bortniansky, Cherubimi # 7


I think it is literally breath-takingly beautiful, sublime.

Forget the annoying and inaccurate English captions, though.  A better translation of the words is below.

Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim,

and who sing the hymn of "Holy, Holy, Holy"

to the life-creating Trinity,

now lay aside all earthly cares,

that we may receive the King of All,

Who comes invisibly upborne by the angelic hosts,

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.