Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2002

various composers: sacred works by Ferrabosco, Taverner, Gesualdo, Victoria and des Pres

Friday 29 March 2002, 9pm

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington

The season of Lent, and the week leading up to Good Friday in particular, has inspired some of sacred music's finest composition. This meditation through music presents a selection of the Renaissance's most moving music for Lent by that period's finest composers. As the sun sets and the light fades, the haunting beauty of the plainsong hymn Pange Lingua ("Sing, my tongue") returns between each polyphonic piece as a litany to the life of Christ.

Programme

Agnus Dei a duo from Missa "La sol fa re mi": Josquin des Pres 1450?-1521
Pange Lingua ("Sing, my tongue") - Crux Fidelis ("Faithful cross"): plainsong / John IV of Portugal 1604-1656
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis ("He was crucified for us") - Antonio Lotti 1667-1740
De parentis protoplasti ("Eating of the tree forbidden") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
O vos omnes ("O my people") - Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611
Hoc opus nostrae salutis ("Such the order God appointed") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord - Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625
Quando venit ergo sacri ("So when now at length the fullness") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
O Crux Splendidior ("O splendid cross") - Peter Philips 1560-1628
Vagit infans inter acta ("All within a lowly manger") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
De lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae ("The lamentation of the Prophet Jemeriah") - Alfonso Ferrabosco 1543-1588
Lustra sex qui iam peracta ("Thus did Christ to perfect manhood") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
O vos omnes ("O my people") - Carlo Gesualdo 1561?-1613
En acetum, fel, arundo ("Lo, with gall His thirst He quenches") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
Ave verum corpus ("Hail, true body") - Orlando di Lasso 1532-1594
Flecte ramos, arbor alta ("Lofty tree, bend down thy branches") - Crux Fidelis: - plainsong / John IV of Portugal
O Lord, in Thy wrath rebuke me not - Orlando Gibbons
Sola digna tu fuisti ("Tree, which only was found worthy") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal
Dum transisset Sabbatum ("And when the sabbath was past") - John Taverner 1495?-1545?
Aequa Patri Filioque ("Blessings to the Father and the Son") - Crux Fidelis: plainsong / John IV of Portugal