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Renaissance influences

Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem / Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas

Sunday 29 July 2007, 4pm


Pre-concert talk 3.45pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

Directed by Michael Stewart

Old meets new in Renaissance Influences, a series of annual recitals featuring a twentieth century composer alongside an acknowledged influence from the past.

Reacting to the stylistic excesses of his more famous contemporaries Puccini and Mascagni, Ildebrando Pizzetti was naturally drawn to Gregorian chant and the polyphony of the great Italian masters. His Messa di Requiem (1922) is one of the great masterpieces of modern unaccompanied choral music, perfectly setting the despair and hope of the Catholic Mass of the Dead. Inspired as he was by the golden era of Italian music, The Tudor Consort will perform Pizzetti’s great work alongside Palestrina’s Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas, presented here for only the second time in New Zealand.

Programme

Motet: Sicut lilium inter spinas — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525?-1594)
Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas — Palestrina

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus/Osanna I/Benedictus/Osanna II
Agnus dei

Interval

Messa di Requiem — Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)

Requiem aeternum
Dies irae
Sanctus
Agnus dei
Libera me

This concert was part of the 2007 Performance Series.

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Musical Director

Michael Stewart

2023 Performance Series

March 25

Bach’s St Matthew Passion – With the Chiesa Ensemble

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