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“In quires and places…”

Friday 12 September 1986, 8pm

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington

Directed by Simon Ravens

Perhaps the most significant difference between medieval sacred music and that of later ages lies in its function. Far from seeing music as an end to itself, the anonymous medieval musician would have seen his own art as being merely part of the overall grandeur and ceremony of the church, fulfilling much the same function as the architecture of the buildings themselves. As part of this general ceremony, choirs would have been accustomed to performing from various stations in the church as well as in procession; before the advent of complex polyphonic music, it is evident that the places they sang from numbered more than just the choir.

Programme

Laudes Regiae: anon
Conditor alme: anon
Nova, nova! Ave fit ex Eva: anon
Alleluia: te martyrem: anon
Angelus ad Virginem: anon

Motet: Ave Maris stella: John Dunstable
Carol: Woefully arrayed: William Cornish

Antiphon: Mater Christi: John Taverner

Interval

Motet: Suscipe quaeso Domine: Thomas Tallis
Motet: Veni redemptor: Thomas Tallis

Anthem: Blessed are all they: Orlando Gibbons
Anthem: O sing unto the Lord: Thomas Tomkins

Anthem: Jehova quam multi sunt: Henry Purcell
Introit: Hear my prayer O Lord: Henry Purcell

Musical Director

Michael Stewart

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Missa Papae Marcelli

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Messiah – With the NZSO

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Reviews

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

Middle C, 27 May 2017

Review of A Consort Christmas, Saturday 16 December 2017

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