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St Matthew Passion: Claudin de Sermisy 1490?-1562/Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521

Thursday 29 October 1992, 8pm


Pre-concert talk 7.30pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

Directed by Simon Ravens

"Josquin may be said to be, in music, a prodigy of nature, as our Michelangelo has been in architecture." So ran the text of Certon's deploration on the death of Josquin des Prez. Although Josquin spent many years working away from France, in his sixties he returned there to work at the court of Louis XII. It is in a recreation of a Sainte Chapelle service that Josquin's simple and affecting Missa d'ung aultre amer is placed in this performance. The Missa d'ung aultre amer forms the framework of a Palm Sunday mass, in which the gospel is an austerely dramatic setting of the St Matthew Passion composed by a pupil of Josquin's, Claudin de Sermisy. Restoring the highly idiomatic style of Latin used in France during the 16th century is a significant factor in recreating the unique sound world of composers such as Sermisy, and the choir employed such pronunciation in this concert and throughout the Printemps a Paris series.

Programme

Introitus: plainsong
Kyrie: Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521
Gloria: Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez
Collect: chant
Epistle: chant
Gradual: plainsong
Tract: plainsong
Gospel: St Matthew Passion: Claudin de Sermisy 1490?-1562
Credo: Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez
Offertory: plainsong
Surum Corda: chant
Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez
Pater Noster: chant
Agnus Dei: Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez
Communio: plainsong
Ite, missa est: plainsong
 

This concert was part of the 1992 Performance Series.

Musical Director

Michael Stewart

2023 Performance Series

March 25

Bach’s St Matthew Passion – With the Chiesa Ensemble

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