Missa Puer Natus est Nobis
Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
Sunday 18 December 2005, 7.30pm
Pre-concert talk 7.15pm
St Mary of the Angels
Boulcott St
Wellington
Directed by Alastair Carey
Suscipe Quaeso / Videte Miraculum
The Tudor Consort joins early music groups around the world in celebrating the 500th birthday of Thomas Tallis, the most influential English composer of the Renaissance. Join us for this first New Zealand performance of Tallis’s incomplete masterwork: the seven voice Christmas mass on the plainsong theme Puer Natus est Nobis.
Programme
Introitus: Puer natus est nobis: plainsong
Kyrie: troped: Deus Creator: plainsong
Gloria: Missa Puer Natus est Nobis: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
Collect: chant
Gradual: Viderunt omnes: plainsong
Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus illixit nobis: plainsong
Sequence: Celeste organum: plainsong
Gospel: chant
Motet: Suscipe Quaeso: Thomas Tallis
Offertorium: Tui sunt caeli et tua est terra: plainsong
Sursum Corda: chant
Sanctus / Osanna I / Benedictus / Osanna II: Missa Puer Natus est Nobis: Thomas Tallis
Pater Noster: chant
Agnus Dei: Missa Puer Natus est Nobis: Thomas Tallis
Communio: Viderunt omnes: plainsong
Motet: Videte Miraculum: Thomas Tallis
Post-communio: Praesta quaesumus omnipotens Deus: chant
Ite, missa est: plainsong
This concert was part of the 2005 Performance Series.