A Lenten Choral Feast
Sunday, 24 March 2019, 3:00pm
All Saints’ Anglican Church
Chapel Street, St Kilda East
All Saints’ Concert Series 2019
Brahms’ Fest- und Gedenksprüche were composed in response to his being made an honorary citizen of the city of Hamburg. His choice of biblical texts had much to do with the recent unification of Germany, while his decision to compose for double choir owed something to his study of the music of Giovanni Gabrieli, two of whose double-choir motets precede the three Brahms pieces. Three of Tallis’s finest Lenten motets and Lassus’s great setting of Miserere complete this musical feast amidst the Church’s forty-day fast.
Thomas Tallis
Miserere nostri, Domine
In jejunio et fletu
Derelinquat impius
Orlande de Lassus
Quartus Psalmus Poenitentialis: Miserere mei, Deus
Giovanni Gabrieli
O Domine Jesu Christe
Deus, Deus meus
Johannes Brahms
Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Opus 109
1. Unsere Väter
2. Wenn ein starker Gewappneter
3. Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk
Soprano
Deborah Summerbell; Carol Veldhoven; Katherine Lieschke; Victoria Brown
Claerwen Jones; Elizabeth O’Leary; Katharina Hochheiser
Alto
Helena Ekins; Belinda Wong;
Yi Wen Chin; Niki Ebacioni; Rebecca Collins
Tenor
Peter Campbell; Tim van Nooten
Michael Stephens; Stuart Tennant; Vaughan McAlley
Bass
Nicholas Tolhurst; Michael Leighton Jones; Thomas Bell
Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley