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Missa Tu es Petrus

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594

Sunday 16 September 1990, 8.00pm

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington

Directed by Simon Ravens

Giovanni Pierluigi was born around 1525, probably in the small town of Palestrina, from where he was to take his name after moving to nearby Rome in 1551. Aside from his position as director of the Cappella Giulia (the choir of St. Peter's), from 1555 onwards he was also a member of the Cappella Sistina (the choir of the Sistine Chapel). The 18-part Tu es Petrus "parody" mass, however, with its lavish polychoral textures, was almost certainly written with the vast spaces of St Peter's in mind. Musically the mass is modelled on Palestrina's own motet of the same name, which liturgically forms the Gradual at the Principle Mass of the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. This reconstruction places the Tu es Petrus mass in this same context.

Programme

Introit: Nunc scio vere: plainsong
Kyrie: Missa Tu es Petrus: G P da Palestrina
Gloria: Missa Tu es Petrus: Palestrina
Collect: chant
Epistle: chant
Gradual: Constitues eos principes: plainsong
Sequence: Tu es Petrus: Palestrina
Gospel: chant
Credo: Missa Tu es Petrus: Palestrina
Offertorio: Constitues eos principes: Palestrina
Sursum Corda: chant
Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa Tu es Petrus: Palestrina
Pater Noster: chant
Agnus Dei: Missa Tu es Petrus: Palestrina
Communio: Tu es Petrus: plainsong
Collect: chant
Ite, missa est: plainsong

This concert was part of the Performance Series.

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Michael Stewart

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