A Tudor Compline — Tallis and Sheppard

The last of the monastic hours, the service of Compline is a contemplative form of night prayer that inspired some of the most beautiful music of the 16th century. The Tudor Consort will perform a reconstruction of a complete Compline featuring music for this rite and ending with Tallis’s glorious Marian antiphon Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater.

This performance is part of the 2008 Subscription Series

Programme

Libera nos, salve nos II — John Sheppard (c.1515-1558)
In pace in idipsum — Sheppard

The office of Compline

Jube Domne… — Chant
Antiphon — Intret oratio mea — Chant
Psalm 87 — Tone V
Hymn — Te lucis ante terminum — Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Hymn — Christe qui es lux et dies — Robert Whyte (c.1538-1574)
Hymn — Christe qui es lux et dies — William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
Little chapter — Tu autem — Chant
Responsary — In manus tuas — Sheppard
Responsary — In manus tuas — Tallis

Interval

Custodi nos Domine — Chant
Antiphon — Salva nos Domine — Chant
Canticle — Nunc dimittis — Byrd

Final prayer and Dismissal — Chant

Antiphon — Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater — Tallis

$20 / $15 — door sales and online booking
6:30pm, Friday 20 June
Chanel Arts Centre, Motueka

8pm, Saturday 21 June
Nelson Cathedral, Nelson

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