Lamentations, Responsories & Miserere (2007)

Saturday, 31 March 2007, 8 pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Road, Kew

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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. In 2006 we commenced a performance of 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 Good Friday Tenebrae, the series to be completed in 2008 with Holy Saturday Tenebrae.

PROGRAM

Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione quarta, Prima diei
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Feria sexta) 1-3
Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione quinta, Prima diei
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Feria sexta) 4-6
Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione sexta, Prima diei
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Feria sexta) 7-9
Robert White Miserere mei, Deus


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