Choral Music for Holy Week 2006

Friday 14 April 2006, 9pm

Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Cnr Molesworth and Hill St
Wellington

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585
Funeral Sentences: Henry Purcell 1659-1695
When David Heard: Thomas Weelkes 1576-1623

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 plaintive calls of Thomas Tallis’s mesmerising motet Miserere Nostri return after each set of pieces as a litany to the life of Christ.

Programme

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585

Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae: Set III: Alfonso Ferrabosco 1543-1588

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis

Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary: Henry Purcell 1659-1695

treble Jane McKinlay
countertenor Christopher Warwick
tenor Alastair Carey
baritone David Treacher

continuo organ Maxwell Kenworthy

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis

Then David Mourned: Thomas Tomkins 1572-1656
When David Heard: Thomas Weelkes 1576-1623
Lugebat David Absalon: attrib. Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521
Civitas Sancti Tui: William Byrd 1540?-1623

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis

Tristis est anima mea: Francis Poulenc 1899-1963
Veni, Creator Spiritus: Richard Marlow 1939-
Umbra Mortis: James Gardner 1962-

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis

Agnus Dei: Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548?-1611

Miserere Nostri: Thomas Tallis

This concert was part of the 2006 Subscription Series.

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