Christmas to Candlemas (2006)

Saturday, 16 December 2006, 8 pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Road, Kew

Subscription Concert 5

Our annual program of music for the forty-day season that commences with Christmas. This year’s offering is entirely a High Renaissance feast, Gombert himself in company with four of his greatest contemporaries as well as two masters of the previous generation.

PROGRAM

Josquin Desprez Praeter rerum seriem
Jean Mouton Nesciens mater
Nicolas Gombert Hodie nobis caelorum Rex
Nicolas Gombert O magnum mysterium
Adrian Willaert O admirabile commercium
Clemens non Papa Ab oriente venerunt magi
Clemens non Papa Vox in Rama
Nicolas Gombert Hodie beata virgo Maria
Costanzo Festa Lumen ad revelationem gentium
Jean Mouton Quaeramus cum pastoribus
Cristóbal de Morales Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS
Deborah Summerbell Belinda Wong Peter Campbell Alexander Roose
Carol Veldhoven Jennifer Mathers Tim Van Nooten Philip Nicholls
Fiona Seers Niki Ebacioni Vaughan McAlley Tom Reid
Kathryn Pisani Rebecca Woods Stuart Tennant Tim Daly
Maria Pisani
Claerwen Jones