Benjamin Britten

Es ist ein Reis entsprungen — Music for Christmas

Celebrate the season with this selection of Christmas pieces from across the ages. This concert is based around paired settings of traditional Christmas texts, and includes works by Britten, Sweelinck and Palestrina, as well as a little known setting of Es ist ein Reis entprungen by Alban Berg.

This performance was part of the 2007 Subscription Series

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Programme

Hodie Christus natus est — Plainsong
Hodie Christus natus est — Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Hodie Christus natus est — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1514-1594)
Nesciens mater — Jean Mouton (1459-1522)
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen — Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Es ist ein Reis entsprungen — Alban Berg (1885-1935)
O magnum mysterium — William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
O magnum mysterium — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Interval

Hymn to the virgin — Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Dormi, Jesu — Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Sing lullaby — Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Magi videntes stellam — Jacob Clemens non Papa (c.1510-1556)
Magi videntes stellam — Leonhard Paminger (1495-1567)
Quem vidistis pastores — Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Quem vidistis pastores — Richard Dering (c.1580-1630)

8pm*, Saturday 15 December
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill St, Wellington

*pre-concert talk at 7.45pm

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