Canticum Canticorum

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594

Sunday 24 July 2005, 7pm

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington

Settings of the Te Deum Laudamus by Gibbons, Victoria, Tallis, Lassus and and Howells

From the sensual to the divine… Palestrina’s seductive motet sequence on the quasi-erotic texts of the Song of Songs with settings of the ancient Catholic hymn Te Deum Laudamus from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Programme

Canticum Canticorum: G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594

i. Osculetur me
iii. Nigra sum, sed formosa
iv. Vineam meam non custodivi
vi. Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
viii. Ecce tu pulcher es
ix. Tota pulchra es
x. Vulnerasti cor meum
xi. Sicut lilium inter spinas
xii. Introduxit me rex
xiv. Vox dilecti mei
xv. Surge, propera amica mea
xvi. Surge amica mea
xix. Adjuro vos
xxii. Pulchra es amica mea
xxvii. Quam pulchra es
xxviii. Guttur tuum
xxix. Veni, dilecte mi

Interval

Te Deum Laudamus: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611
Te Deum Laudamus: Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625
Te Deum Laudamus: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
Te Deum Laudamus: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594

Master Tallis’s Testament: Herbert Howells 1892-1983

Great organ Alastair Carey

Te Deum Laudamus “for the Church of St Mary Redcliffe Bristol”: Herbert Howells

Great organ Maxwell Kenworthy

This concert was part of the 2005 Performance Series.

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