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A Requiem for Philip II

Music by Morales and Lobo

Saturday 7 November 2009, 8pm


Pre-concert talk 7.45pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

Directed by Michael Stewart

We conclude our 2009 series with a grand reconstruction of the funeral music for Philip II, King of Spain from 1556-1598 and the bringer of the ‘Golden Age’ of artistic endeavour to the Iberian Peninsular. The poignant Missa pro Defunctis of Cristobal Morales will be performed alongside the motet Versa est in luctum by Alonso Lobo.

Programme

Missa pro Defunctis (1544) - Morales

  • Introitus: “Requiem aeternam”
  • Kyrie
  • Oratio
  • Epistola
  • Graduale: “Requiem aeternam"
  • Tractus: “Absolve Domine”
  • Sequentia: “Dies irae”
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  • Interval
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  • Evangelium
  • Offertorium: “Domine Iesu Christe”
  • Prefatio
  • Sanctus and Benedictus
  • Pater noster
  • Agnus Dei
  • Communio: “Lux aeterna”
  • Postcommunio
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Motectum: “Versa est in luctum” (1598) -  Lobo

This concert was part of the 2009 Performance Series.

Review

"Michael Stewart’s Tudor Consort voices wove for us a multi-stranded panoply of beautiful sounds"

Middle-C, 7 November 2009

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Reviews

Brahms’s Deutsches Requiem given spirited and scrupulous performance by Tudor Consort

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Review of A German Requiem (London Version) – Johannes Brahms, Saturday 27 May 2017

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