Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611

Victoria's parody mass on the themes of Guerrero's motet Simile est Regnum Coelorum is one of his most beautiful full mass settings. This intimate performance by a reduced voice ensemble (reflecting the small size of Victoria's choir) will be given in the intimate acoustic of the newly refurbished Chapel of Remembrance at the National War Memorial.

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Programme

Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum by Victoria
with the plainsong propers for the Third Sunday after Epiphany

Introitus: Adoráte Deum omnes Angeli ejus: plainsong
Kyrie: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Gloria: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Collect: chant
Gradual: Timébunt gentes nomen tuum Dómine: plainsong
Sequence: Jesu, dulcis memoria (attrib. Victoria)
Gospel: chant
Credo: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Offertorium: Déxtera Dómini fecit virtútem: plainsong
Sursum corda: plainsong
Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Pater noster: plainsong
Agnus Dei I, II, III: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Communio: Mirabántur omnes de his, quć procedébant de ore Dei: plainsong
Motet: O vos omnes
Post-communio: Quos tantis Dómine, largíris uti mystériis: chant
Ite, missa est: plainsong

7.30pm, Sunday 26 January 2003
National War Memorial, Buckle Street, Wellington

$25 / $15

dir. Alastair Carey

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