Around Renaissance Europe in 80 Minutes

Wednesday 24 June 2009, 8pm

Pre-concert talk 7.45

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

The Tudor Consort presents a sampler of sacred and secular music from the major regions of Renaissance Europe — England, France, Flanders, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula. The programme features the Kyrie from Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, the haunting motet Tulurunt Dominum by Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert, and Tallis’s exuberant Loquebantur variis linguis.

The Tudor Consort appears courtesy of Chamber Music Hutt Valley

Programme

England

Loquebantur variis linguis — Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Attolite portas — William Byrd (c.1540-1623)

France

Revecy venir du printans — Claude Le Jeune (1528-1600)
Au joli bois — Claudin de Sermisy (c.1490-1562)

Central Europe

Innsbruck — Heinrich Issac (c.1450-1517)
Magnificat — Praeter rerum serium — Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

Flanders

Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria — Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521)
Tulurunt Dominum — Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560)

Interval

Italy

Kyrie from Missa Papae Marcelli (1525-1594)
Quell’ augellin che canta — Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)

Spain/Portugal

O quam gloriosum — Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Versa est in luctum — Alonso Lobo (1555-1617)

England

April is in my mistress’ face — Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602)
The silver swan — Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Gloria in excelsis Deo — Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)

This concert was part of the 2009 Subscription Series.

Review

"Here the choir’s real talents, their careful vertical blending and contrapuntal textures, in great music, were most to be admired, all the work of conductor Michael Stewart."

Middle-C, 24 June 2009

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