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 Subscription Series.
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Reviews
"The choir produced a beautifully balanced, floating sound enhanced, as always, by impeccable intonation and wonderfully shaped phrasing and cadences."
Review of Music for Holy Week, Saturday 12 April 2014
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