PROGRAMMES
2024/2025
Programme I - Monteverdi Vespers 1610
Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the Italian Renaissance composers. He revolutionised the music of the theatre and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of instruments and voices, and by his daring harmonies
Written in 1610, the Vespers is a monumental work of music, calling for a choir large enough and skilful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece.
Demanding and virtuosic and musically thrilling, this concert is an extraordinary showcase for the world-renowned choir and orchestra under Harry Christophers.
Cast : 20 singers and 18 instrumentalists
Programme II - The Creative Spirit (Lassus and parody) - Choral Pilgrimage 2024
Plainsong Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Psalm 147) 2.35
LASSUS Osculetur me osculo oris sui 3.30
LASSUS Credo from Missa Osculetur me 8.00
JOSQUIN Benedicta es caelorum Regina 6.15
LASSUS Cantai, or piango 5.00
LASSUS Magnificat Benedicta es caelorum Regina 7.45
***Interval***
JOSQUIN Salve Regina a5 7.40
LASSUS Lauda Jerusalem Dominum 7.10
Bob CHILCOTT Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (parody on Cantai, or piango) c.7.00
CHATELET Benedicta es caelorum Regina (with si placet parts) 7.30
LASSUS Salve Regina a6 7.00
Cast : 18 singers
Programme III - PALESTRINA @ 500
In 2025 we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated light of music.
1 Palestrina @ 500 – The Prince of Music
The breaking of bread / The Last Supper
Ego sum panis vivus 6.00
Kyrie and Gloria from Missa Fratres ego enim accepi 9.20
Improperium exspectavit cor meum 3.50
The Song of Songs nos. 4-6 [10.40]
Vineam meam non custodivi 3.10
Si ignoras te, O pulchra inter mulieres 3.40
Pulchrae sunt genae tuae 3.50
Caro mea vere est cibus 5.40
***Interval***
Pater noster 4.00
Stabat Mater 8.30
The Song of Songs nos. 25-27 [9.20]
Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui 3.10
Duo ubera tua 3.10
Quam pulchra es 3.00
Pange lingua (Hymn) 9.00
Sanctus and Benedictus from Missa Fratres ego enim accepi 4.45
2 Palestrina @ 500 – The Celebrated Light of Music
O great mystery / The newborn child
O magnum mysterium 5.20
Gloria from Missa O magnum mysterium 5.50
Videntes stellam Magi 2.45
The Song of Songs nos. 1-3 [10.20]
Osculetur me osculo oris sui 3.20
Trahe me post te 3.20
Nigra sum sed formosa 3.40
A solis ortu cardine (Hymn) 7.50
***Interval***
Hodie Christus natus est 2.30
Sanctus and Benedictus from Missa Hodie Christus natus est 6.00
Ad te levavi
The Song of Songs nos. 12-14 [8.25]
Introduxit me rex in cellam vinarium 3.30
Laeva eius sub capite meo 2.40
Vox dilecti mei 2.15
Agnus Dei I-III from Missa O magnum mysterium 5.50
Magnificat a5 Quarti toni 9.10
3. Palestrina @ 500 – The Father of Music
In praise of women
There is a wealth of music written in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Palestrina and countless other renaissance composers but other women in the Christian story have also been served by Palestrina resulting in music of great variety and of the highest quality.
Plainsong – Regina caeli 2.00
Kyrie from Missa Regina Caeli 5.00
Beata Barbara 8.00
The Song of Songs nos. 9-11 [9.30]
Tota pulchra es, amica mea 2.30
Vulnerasti cor meum, soror mea 3.10
Sicut lilium inter spinas 3.50
Angelus Domini descendit 8.00
***Interval***
Assumpta est Maria 6.20
Gloria from Missa Assumpta est Maria 5.00
Susanna ab improbis senibus 7.00
The Song of Songs nos. 19-21 [8.00]
Adiuro vos filiae Ierusalem 2.50
Caput eius aureum optimum 2.15
Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum 3.00
Diffusa est gratia 3.35
Salve Regina a5 6.20
4. Palestrina @ 500 – The Saviour of Church Music
Take a Tune / Teacher and Warrior
15th-century tune L’Homme Arme
Kyrie and Gloria from Missa L’Homme Arme 8.45
Ut queant laxis (Hymn) 5.45
Tribulationes civitatum audivimus 6.20
The Song of Songs nos. 16-18 [7.20]
Surge amica mea 2.30
Dilectus meus mihi 2.50
Surgam et circuibo civitatem 2.00
Hic est beatissimus Evangelista 6.00
***Interval***
Parce mihi, Domine 6.45
Credo from Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (Hexachord Mass) 6.30
Puer qui natus est 3.10
The Song of Songs nos. 22-24 [7.15]
Pulchra es, amica mea 2.20
Quae est ista, quae progreditur 2.15
Descendi in hortum meum 2.30
Peccantem me quotidie 4.00
Agnus Dei I and II from Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (Hexachord Mass) 7.30
Programme IV - Angel of Peace - Choral Pilgrimage 2025
Hildegard of Bingen O viridissima virga 5.00
Arvo Part Tribute to Caesar 6.00
Will Todd I shall be an angel of peace 10.00 (for choir and solo violin)
John Taverner Gaude plurimum 15.00
***Interval***
Hildegard of Bingen Ave, generosa 6.00
Arvo Part Da pacem Domine 5.00
Anna Clyne new commission for choir and solo violin 7.00
Arvo Part Magnificat 7.00
John Taverner O splendor gloriae 10.00
Cast: Choir (18) plus solo violin
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