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Missa Ave Maris Stella

Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521

Sunday 15 February 2004, 7.30pm


Pre-concert talk 7.15pm

National War Memorial
Buckle St
Wellington

Directed by Alastair Carey

Josquin was the greatest composer of the early Renaissance, the most varied in invention and the most profound in expression; his peers compared his artistic abilities to those of Michelangelo. Our 2004 Season begins with a liturgical reconstruction of his delightful four-part mass on the Latin hymn Ave Maris Stella in the intimate acoustic of the National War Memorial.

The hymn Ave Maris Stella ("Hail star of the sea") is the hymn at Vespers on Feast Days of the Blessed Virgin Mary (known today as "Marian Feasts"); Josquin probably wrote his mass setting on that hymn melody for use at mass on the same feast days. There are several different Marian Feasts in the Catholic calendar at which Missa Ave Maris Stella might have been performed; the propers for this reconstruction are those for the Feast of the Presentation of the infant Christ in the Temple in Jerusalem, which according to the old orthodox Catholic calendar (based on the Julian calendar, which would have been in use in Josquin's day) falls on February 15 each year.

Programme

Hymn: Ave Maris Stella: plainsong

Missa Ave Maris Stella by Josquin
with the plainsong and polyphonic propers for the Marian Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Introitus: Salve sancta Parens: plainsong
Kyrie: Missa Ave Maris Stella: Josquin
Gloria: Missa Ave Maris Stella: Josquin
Collect: chant
Gradual: Benedicta et venerabilis es, Virgo Maria: plainsong
Gospel: chant

Credo: Missa Ave Maris Stella: Josquin
Offertorium: Ave Maria, gratia plena: Josquin
Sursum corda: chant
Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa Ave Maris Stella: Josquin
Pater noster: chant
Agnus Dei I / II / III: Missa Ave Maris Stella: Josquin
Communio: Beata viscera Mariae Virginis: plainsong
Motet: Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi: Josquin
Post-communio: chant
Ite, missa est: plainsong

This concert was part of the 2004 Performance Series.

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Musical Director

Michael Stewart

2023 Performance Series

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