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
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Reviews
In all, this was a splendid performance…the music was uplifting and inspiring [and] the audience was rapt.
Middle C, 31 October 2015
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