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A Tudor Compline

Tallis and Sheppard

Saturday 14 June 2008, 8pm


Pre-concert talk 7.45pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

Directed by Michael Stewart

The last of the monastic hours, the service of Compline is a contemplative form of night prayer that inspired some of the most beautiful music of the 16th century. The Tudor Consort will perform a reconstruction of a complete Compline featuring music for this rite and ending with Tallis’s glorious Marian antiphon Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater.

Programme

Libera nos, salve nos II — John Sheppard (c.1515-1558)
In pace in idipsum — Sheppard

The office of Compline

Jube Domne… — Chant
Antiphon — Intret oratio mea — Chant
Psalm 87 — Tone V
Hymn — Te lucis ante terminum — Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Hymn — Christe qui es lux et dies — Robert Whyte (c.1538-1574)
Hymn — Christe qui es lux et dies — William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
Little chapter — Tu autem — Chant
Responsary — In manus tuas — Sheppard
Responsary — In manus tuas — Tallis

Interval

Custodi nos Domine — Chant
Antiphon — Salva nos Domine — Chant
Canticle — Nunc dimittis — Byrd

Final prayer and Dismissal — Chant

Antiphon — Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater — Tallis

This concert was part of the 2008 Performance Series.

Musical Director

Michael Stewart

2023 Performance Series

March 25

Bach’s St Matthew Passion – With the Chiesa Ensemble

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