Saturday, 8 April 2006, 8pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Road, Kew
Subscription Concert 2
When Ensemble Gombert performed the complete Responsoria of Gesualdo in a single concert in 1998 it was recognized as a tour de force, but perhaps too much of a good thing for singers and listeners alike. We now plan to perform the three sets of nine Responsories over three years, each set in company with Lassus’s three Lamentation settings for the same day, ending each program with a setting of Miserere. This year’s program thus constitutes a Maundy Thursday Tenebrae, to be complemented in 2007 and 2008 by Good Friday and Holy Saturday Tenebrae.
PROGRAM
Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione prima, Prima diei
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Feria quinta) 1-3
Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione secunda, Prima diei
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Feria quinta) 4-6
Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione tertia, Prima diei
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Feria quinta) 7-9
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Miserere mei, Deus
| SOPRANO | ALTO | TENOR | BASS |
| Deborah Summerbell | Jennifer Mathers | Peter Campbell | Thomas Drent |
| Carol Veldhoven | Belinda Wong | Tim Van Nooten | Philip Nicholls |
| Fiona Seers | Niki Ebacioni | Vaughan McAlley | Tom Reid |
| Kathryn Pisani | Rebecca Woods | Stuart Tennant | Tim Daly |
| Maria Pisani | Jenny George | Frank Prain | |
| Helen Gagliano | Adrian Palmer |