Sacred vocal works
Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
Tuesday 15 October 2002, 8pm
Pre-concert talk 7.45pm
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington
Directed by Alastair Carey
If there is one English composer who can be regarded as Byrd’s equal it is his tutor, Thomas Tallis. He responded to the demands of his medium, whether Latin output for the Recusants or English for the Protestants, with remarkable flexibility and compositional mastery. So highly regarded were Tallis' Latin compositions that alternative English texts were found for several of his Latin motets, thus allowing the pieces to be performed in the context of an Anglican church service; these pieces with multi-lingual texts became known as the contrafacta.
Programme
Canticle: Te Deum for Five Parts
Responses to the Commandments, Psalm 119, Creed, Offertory, Sanctus, Gloria: The Dorian Service
Contrafacta anthem (English version): With all our hearts
Contrafacta anthem (English version): I call and cry to thee
Contrafacta anthem (English version): When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house
Interval
Contrafacta anthem (Latin version): Salvator mundi (1541)
Contrafacta anthem (Latin version): O sacrum convivium
Contrafacta anthem (Latin version): Salvator mundi (1575)
Madrigal: Fond youth is a bubble blown up with breath
Song: O ye tender babes of England
Hymn: Why fum'th in sight
Motet: Loquebantur variis linguis
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"The choir produced a beautifully balanced, floating sound enhanced, as always, by impeccable intonation and wonderfully shaped phrasing and cadences."
Review of Music for Holy Week, Saturday 12 April 2014
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