Saturday, 15 May 2010, 8pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Road, Kew
Subscription Concert 3
Renaissance composers frequently re-fashioned the musical material of motets or chansons into settings of Mass or
Magnificat. A composer might make such a parody of his own music, as is the case with Gombert’s eight-voice Credo,
modelled on his motet Lugebat David Absalon, or that of another composer, as is the case with the works of Lassus
and Monteverdi presented in this program, each based on a piece by Gombert. That these two later composers, each
considered the outstanding master of his generation, should pay homage to Gombert in this way is an indication of the esteem in which our composer was regarded during the fifty years after his death.
PROGRAM
Nicolas Gombert Lugebat David Absalon
Nicolas Gombert Credo
Nicolas Gombert Mort et fortune
Orlande de Lassus Magnificat tertii toni quinque vocum Mort et fortune
Nicolas Gombert In illo tempore
Claudio Monteverdi Missa da Capella a sei voci, fatta sopra il motetto In illo tempore del Gomberti
| SOPRANO | ALTO | TENOR | BASS |
| Deborah Summerbell | Belinda Wong | Peter Campbell | Julien Robinson |
| Carol Veldhoven | Jennifer Mathers | Tim Van Nooten | Kieran Rowe |
| Katherine Norman | Rebecca Woods | Vaughan McAlley | Chris Potter |
| Kathryn Pisani | Niki Ebacioni | Stuart Tennant | Alistair Clark |
| Claerwen Jones | |||
| Maria Pisani |