Missa in te Domine Speravi: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594


Like Josquin des Prez, Lassus spent much of his working life in Italy, but returned to Northern Europe in his later years. His Missa in te Domine Speravi is preserved in a manuscript from Paris, where Lassus worked in 1573 at the French court. In complete contrast to the austerity and simplicty of the works by Josquin and Claudin de Sermisy earlier in this series, the Missa in te Domine Speravi is a flamboyant six-part work. It was presented here in a reconstruction of an Ascension Day mass, as it might have been celebrated at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris during the composer's time in the city.

This performance was part of the Printemps a Paris series

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Programme

    Introitus: plainsong
    Kyrie: Missa in te Domine Speravi: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594
    Gloria: Missa in te Domine Speravi: Lassus
    Collect: chant
    Epistle: chant
    Alleluia: plainsong
    Gospel: chant
    Credo: Missa in te Domine Speravi: Lassus
    Offertorio: plainsong
    Sursum Corda: chant
    Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa in te Domine Speravi: Lassus
    Pater Noster: chant
    Agnus Dei: Missa in te Domine Speravi: Lassus
    Communio: plainsong
    Ite, missa est: plainsong

8pm*, Sunday 1 November 1992
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Molesworth Street, Wellington
$20 / $12
* pre-concert talk at 7.30pm

dir. Simon Ravens

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