Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum

Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611

Sunday 26 January 2003, 7.30pm

Pre-concert talk 7.15pm

National War Memorial
Buckle St
Wellington

Victoria's parody mass on the themes of Guerrero's motet Simile est Regnum Coelorum is one of his most beautiful full mass settings. This intimate performance by a reduced voice ensemble (reflecting the small size of Victoria's choir) will be given in the intimate acoustic of the newly refurbished Chapel of Remembrance at the National War Memorial.

Programme

Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum by Victoria
with the plainsong propers for the Third Sunday after Epiphany

Introitus: Adoráte Deum omnes Angeli ejus: plainsong
Kyrie: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Gloria: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Collect: chant
Gradual: Timébunt gentes nomen tuum Dómine: plainsong
Sequence: Jesu, dulcis memoria (attrib. Victoria)
Gospel: chant
Credo: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Offertorium: Déxtera Dómini fecit virtútem: plainsong
Sursum corda: plainsong
Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Pater noster: plainsong
Agnus Dei I, II, III: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum
Communio: Mirabántur omnes de his, quæ procedébant de ore Dei: plainsong
Motet: O vos omnes
Post-communio: Quos tantis Dómine, largíris uti mystériis: chant
Ite, missa est: plainsong