Saturday, 15 March 2008, 8pm
Xavier College Chape, Barkers Road, Kew
Subscription Concert 1
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 brings the series to a close with Tenebrae for Holy Saturday.
This concert was also performed on 8 March in Geelong at St Mary of the Angels Basilica as part of the Music at the Basilica concert series.
PROGRAM
Orlande de Lassus Lamentatione 7–9
Carlo Gesualdo Responsoria (Sabbato Sancto)
Andrea Gabrieli Miserere mei, Deus
| SOPRANO | ALTO | TENOR | BASS |
| Deborah Summerbell | Jennifer Mathers | Peter Campbell | Kieran Rowe |
| Carol Veldhoven | Belinda Wong | Tim Van Nooten | Julien Robinson |
| Fiona Seers | Niki Ebacioni | Vaughan McAlley | Tim Daly |
| Kathryn Pisani | Jenny George | Stuart Tennant | |
| Maria Pisani | |||
| Claerwen Jones |