Concert 1: Saturday 23 February at 8.00 pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Rd, Kew
Subscription Concert 1
The major work of this program, new to our repertoire, is Josquin’s Missa Malheur me bat, regarded as one of the composer’s most polished settings of the Mass. It was also highly regarded by his contemporaries and subsequent generations, publications and manuscript copies occurring over a period of about 100 years, a remarkably long life for a work at this time. Also new to the repertoire is Gombert’s Magnificat secundi toni. The remaining works have been perennial favourites, though we have not performed Martini’s extraordinary Magnificat tertii toni in the current millennium.
PROGRAM
Johannes Martini – Magnificat tertii toni
Johannes Ghiselin – Regina caeli
Josquin Desprez – Missa Malheur me bat
Nicolas Gombert – Magnificat secundi toni
Jean Richafort – Philomena, praevia
Clemens non Papa – Fremuit spiritu Jesus
Orlandus Lassus – Nunc dimittis primi toni
SINGERS
| Soprano Deborah Summerbell Carol Veldhoven Katherine Norman Maria Pisani Claerwen Jones Kathryn Pisani |
Alto Belinda Wong Yi Wen Chin Niki Ebacioni Rebecca Woods |
Tenor Tim van Nooten Vaughan McAlley Stuart Tennant |
Bass Thomas Bland Andrew Murray Chris Potter Mike Ormerod |