Tuesday, 1 March 2016, 6pm
Melbourne Recital Centre – Salon
Music of the Great Renaissance Chapels: The Sistine Chapel
Melbourne Recital Centre Local Heroes Series 2016
| Program | |
|---|---|
| Josquin Desprez | Ave Maria Inviolata, integra, et casta es Maria Benedicta es, caelorum Regina |
| Cristóbal de Morales | Magnificat primi toni Tu es Petrus |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Missa Papae Marcelli |
The choirbooks of the Sistine Chapel preserve an embarrassment of riches from the Renaissance. This concert presents works from three major singer-composers representative of their respective generations – Josquin Desprez, Cristóbal de Morales and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
Half the program is devoted to Palestrina’s great Missa Papae Marcelli, the work often credited with having saved polyphonic music from the Council of Trent’s reformers.
SINGERS
| Soprano Carol Veldhoven Katherine Lieschke Victoria Brown Claerwen Jones Kathryn Pisani Katharina Hochheiser |
Alto Belinda Wong Juliana Kay Yi Wen Chin Niki Ebacioni Rebecca Collins |
Tenor Peter Campbell Tim van Nooten Vaughan McAlley Michael Stephens Stuart Tennant |
Bass Adrian Phillips Nicholas Tolhurst Mike Ormerod Michael Strasser |