Miserere

Music for Holy Week

Friday 21 March 2008, 9pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

The season of Lent, and the week leading up to Good Friday in particular, has inspired some of sacred music’s finest composition. The Tudor Consort presents a selection of Lenten music from the Renaissance to the present day, including the authentic Sistine Chapel reconstruction of Gregorio Allegri’s famous Miserere mei, Deus, and the powerful motet Warum ist das Licht gegeben of Johannes Brahms.

Programme

Stabat mater dolorosa — Plainsong
Stabat mater dolorosa — John Browne (c.1490)
O quam tristis et afflicta — Plainsong
O vos omnes — Carlo Gesualdo (1561-1613)
Selig sind die Toten — Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Quis est homo, qui non fleret — Plainsong
Miserere mei, Deus — Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Eia mater, fons amoris — Plainsong
Warum ist das licht gegeben — Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Virgo virginum praeclara — Plainsong
Requiem aeternum and Kyrie (Requiem) — Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)
Drop, drop slow tears — Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Inflammatus et accensus — Plainsong
Stabat mater — Felice Anerio (1560-1614)