A Requiem for Philip II

Music by Morales and Lobo

Saturday 7 November 2009, 8pm

Sacred Heart Cathedral
Hill Street
Wellington

We conclude our 2009 series with a grand reconstruction of the funeral music for Philip II, King of Spain from 1556-1598 and the bringer of the ‘Golden Age’ of artistic endeavour to the Iberian Peninsular. The poignant Missa pro Defunctis of Cristobal Morales will be performed alongside the motet Versa est in luctum by Alonso Lobo.

Programme

Missa pro Defunctis (1544) - Morales

Introitus: “Requiem aeternam”
Kyrie
Oratio
Epistola
Graduale: “Requiem aeternam"
Tractus: “Absolve Domine”
Sequentia: “Dies irae”
Interval
Evangelium
Offertorium: “Domine Iesu Christe”
Prefatio
Sanctus and Benedictus
Pater noster
Agnus Dei
Communio: “Lux aeterna”
Postcommunio

Motectum: “Versa est in luctum” (1598) - Lobo

This concert was part of the 2009 Subscription Series.

Review

"Michael Stewart’s Tudor Consort voices wove for us a multi-stranded panoply of beautiful sounds"

Middle-C, 7 November 2009

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