Following is the complete archive of all performances by The Tudor Consort, with information on performance dates, composers and programmes, and soloists and directors. For each performance additional resources including posters, programme notes, reviews and recordings are made available as the group’s records and library permit. Most recent performances are listed first; performances were given in Wellington unless otherwise marked.
2023
Bach’s St Matthew Passion – With the Chiesa Ensemble / dir. Michael Stewart / 25 March 2023
2022
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Messiah – With the NZSO / 10 December 2022
Missa Papae Marcelli / dir. Michael Stewart / 3 September 2022
Times of Penitence / dir. Michael Stewart / 9 July 2022
Haydn’s Nelson Mass – With Camerata / 28 May 2022
2021
O Mors Inevitabilis – NEW DATE – 500th anniversary of the deaths of Josquin Des Prez and Robert Fayrfax / dir. Michael Stewart / 6 November 2021
ICONIC – POSTPONED from June 26 due to Covid restrictions / dir. Michael Stewart / 24 July 2021
Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 2 April 2021
2020
Field of Cloth of Gold / dir. Michael Stewart / 7 November 2020
Invocations - SOLD OUT / dir. Michael Stewart / 29 August 2020
2019
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Music for a Great Space / dir. Michael Stewart / 16 November 2019
The Patterns of Time / dir. Michael Stewart / 14 September 2019
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know – With Aurora IV / dir. Michael Stewart / 22 June 2019
Tenebrae – Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 19 April 2019
Chansons D'Amour – Renaissance Love Songs / dir. Michael Stewart / 16 February 2019
2018
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Secrets of The Armed Man – The Fall of Constantinople / dir. Michael Stewart / 3 November 2018
Dixit Dominus / dir. Michael Stewart / 1 September 2018
Exaudi – Songs for cello and choir / dir. Michael Stewart / 28 July 2018
Eternal Sacrifice – Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 30 March 2018
2017
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A Consort Christmas / dir. Michael Stewart / 16 December 2017
Dona Nobis Pacem – A Concert for World Peace Day / dir. Michael Stewart / 16 September 2017
A German Requiem (London Version) – Johannes Brahms / dir. Michael Stewart / 27 May 2017
The Desolate City – Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 14 April 2017
2016
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Love, Death and the Maiden – Palestrina / Guerrero / Vaughan Williams / dir. Michael Stewart / 5 November 2016
Portal to Paradise – Lobo / Howells Requiem / dir. Alastair Carey / 27 August 2016
St Matthew Passion – Heinrich Schütz / dir. Peter Walls / 25 March 2016
Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas – Taverner / Sheppard / dir. Simon Ravens / 13 February 2016
2015
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Officium Defunctorum – Victoria's Requiem / dir. Michael Stewart / 31 October 2015
Sweet Sixteen / dir. Michael Stewart / 5 September 2015
1515—Sheppard and Wylkynson / dir. Michael Stewart / 6 June 2015
Miserere—Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 3 April 2015
2014
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Singet dem Herrn – Sing a New Song / dir. Michael Stewart / 29 November 2014
Handel’s Israel in Egypt – The Tudor Consort with Chiesa Ensemble / dir. Michael Stewart / 6 September 2014
By Popular Request... / dir. Michael Stewart / 31 May 2014
Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 12 April 2014
Subscriber-only concert - In Praise of Wine / dir. Michael Stewart / 9 February 2014
2013
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Puer natus est nobis – Early music for Christmas / dir. Michael Stewart / 7 December 2013
Renaissance Influences VI – Modern Madrigals / dir. Michael Stewart / 31 August 2013
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam – Music by Britten, Poulenc and Hindemith / dir. Michael Stewart / 22 June 2013
2012
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Renaissance Influences V – Springtime / dir. Michael Stewart / 24 November 2012
Missa Mexicana – Padilla: Missa Ego flos campi / dir. Michael Stewart / 15 September 2012
The ‘Earthquake’ Mass – Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus / dir. Michael Stewart / 19 May 2012
Schütz: St Matthew Passion / dir. Michael Stewart / 31 March 2012
2011
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A Britten Christmas – A Ceremony of Carols/A Boy Was Born / dir. Michael Stewart / 10 December 2011
Renaissance Influences IV – Made in New Zealand / dir. Michael Stewart / 8 October 2011
The 40-part motet – Spem in Alium / dir. Michael Stewart / 23 July 2011
Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 22 April 2011
Songs of Prophecy – Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum / dir. Michael Stewart / 6 April 2011
Music from the Sistine Chapel / dir. Michael Stewart / 26 February 2011
2010
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Christmas Oratorio - JS Bach / dir. Michael Stewart / 18 December 2010
A German Requiem – Schütz / D. Scarlatti / guest conductor Matthew Leese / 4 September 2010
La Vie...La Mort – Motets of life and death by Jean Mouton, Nicolas Gombert and Josquin Des Prez / dir. Michael Stewart / 12 June 2010
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae – Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 2 April 2010
Gradualia – Byrd motets / dir. Michael Stewart / 13 February 2010
2009
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A Requiem for Philip II – Music by Morales and Lobo / dir. Michael Stewart / 7 November 2009
J. S. Bach – The Six Motets / dir. Michael Stewart / 12 September 2009
Around Renaissance Europe in 80 Minutes / dir. Michael Stewart / 24 June 2009
Tenebrae Responsories – Music for Holy Week by Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) / dir. Michael Stewart / 10 April 2009
Songs of the Sun and Moon / dir. Michael Stewart / 20 February 2009
2008
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Handel's Messiah / dir. Michael Stewart / 4 December 2008
Renaissance Influences II – Howells and the Tudor tradition / dir. Michael Stewart / 19 October 2008
Humphrey, Blow and Purcell – Restoration Verse Anthems / dir. Michael Stewart / 10 August 2008
A Tudor Compline – Tallis and Sheppard / dir. Michael Stewart / 14 June 2008
Miserere – Music for Holy Week / dir. Michael Stewart / 21 March 2008
2007
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Es ist ein Reis entsprungen – Music for Christmas / dir. Michael Stewart / 15 December 2007
Sacré et profane – French choral music of the 20th century / dir. Michael Stewart / 5 October 2007
Renaissance influences – Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem / Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas / dir. Michael Stewart / 29 July 2007
Missa Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas – G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 / dir. Michael Stewart / 13 June 2007
Convertere ad Dominum – Victoria's Lamentations / dir. Michael Stewart / 6 April 2007
Jesus autem transiens – music from the Eton Choirbook / dir. Michael Stewart / 24 February 2007
2006
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Christmas Oratorio: Heinrich Schütz / Messe de Minuit: Marc-Antoine Charpentier / guest conductor Robert Oliver / 17 December 2006
Magnificat BWV 243: J S Bach 1685-1750 – with additional settings of the Magnificat by Lassus and Monteverdi / dir. Alastair Carey / 30 July 2006
Spem in Alium: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585/ The Great Service: William Byrd 1540?-1623 / guest conductor Simon Ravens / 4 June 2006
Chandos Anthems – G F Handel 1685-1759 / guest conductor Professor Peter Walls / 3 June 2006
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christe – Richard Davy 1467?-1538 / dir. Alastair Carey / 2 June 2006
Choral Music for Holy Week 2006 / dir. Alastair Carey / 14 April 2006
2005
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Missa Puer Natus est Nobis – Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585 / dir. Alastair Carey / 18 December 2005
Ancient and Modern – tour repertoire for Europe / dir. Alastair Carey / 22 October 2005
“Cantor and Friends” – European tour fundraising recital / dir. Alastair Carey / 18 September 2005
Bonum est Confiteri Domino: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1645-1704 – O Sing unto the Lord: Henry Purcell 1659-1695 / dir. Alastair Carey / 27 August 2005
Canticum Canticorum – G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 / dir. Alastair Carey / 24 July 2005
Choral Music for ANZAC Day 2005 – “Composures” / dir. Alastair Carey / 25 April 2005
Choral Music for Holy Week 2005 / dir. Alastair Carey / 25 March 2005
2004
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Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem – Cipriano de Rore 1516-1565 / dir. Alastair Carey / 18 December 2004
Komm, Jesu, Komm (BWV 229) – J S Bach / dir. Alastair Carey / 30 October 2004
Seven Last Words from the Cross – James MacMillan / dir. Alastair Carey / 21 August 2004
Madrigals and Verse Anthems of Elizabethan England – Various composers: Weelkes, Wilbye, Gibbons, Morley / dir. Alastair Carey / 13 June 2004
Madrigals, Full Anthems and Latin Motets of Elizabethan England – Various composers: Weelkes, Wilbye, Gibbons, Morley / dir. Alastair Carey / 6 June 2004
Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2004 – various composers: Allegri, Tallis, Weelkes, Lotti / dir. Alastair Carey / 9 April 2004
Missa Ave Maris Stella – Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521 / dir. Alastair Carey / 15 February 2004
2003
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Three Shakespeare Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams / dir. Alastair Carey / 13 December 2003
A Vespers Meditation – Magnificats and Motets / dir. Alastair Carey / 12 September 2003
When David Heard – Tomkins, Weelkes / dir. Alastair Carey / 6 July 2003
Renaissance choral music for ANZAC Day 2003 – "Composures" / dir. Alastair Carey / 25 April 2003
Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2003 – various composers: sacred works by Allegri, Bach, Victoria and Gibbons / dir. Alastair Carey / 18 April 2003
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia / guest conductor Sir Philip Ledger / 9 March 2003
Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum – Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611 / dir. Alastair Carey / 26 January 2003
2002
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Te Deum Laudamus – Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary / dir. Alastair Carey / 17 December 2002
Sacred vocal works – Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585 / dir. Alastair Carey / 15 October 2002
William Byrd: The Three Masses II – Mass for Five Voices / dir. Alastair Carey / 11 June 2002
William Byrd: The Three Masses I – Mass for Three Voices and Mass for Four Voices / dir. Alastair Carey / 9 June 2002
Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2002 – various composers: sacred works by Ferrabosco, Taverner, Gesualdo, Victoria and des Pres / dir. Alastair Carey / 29 March 2002
Old St Pauls' "ChoralFest" – The Tudor Consort performs works by Gibbons, Palestrina, John IV of Portugal / dir. Alastair Carey / 17 March 2002
The Short Service – Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625, with additional sacred works / dir. Alastair Carey / 17 February 2002
2001
Missa Papae Marcelli – G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 / dir. Alastair Carey / 27 November 2001
2000
Berliner Mass – Arvo Pärt 1935- / dir. Ivan Patterson / 9 December 2000
Portuguese Splendour – Renaissance music from Portugal / dir. Ivan Patterson / 27 May 2000
1999
The Song of Simeon – Counter-Reformation Motets: Peter Philips 1561-1628 / dir. Peter Walls / 10 August 1999
Play of the Virtues – Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179 / dir. Peter Walls / 30 May 1999
Play of the Virtues – Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179 / dir. Peter Walls / 29 May 1999
G F Handel: Dixit Dominus / Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria / dir. Peter Walls / 15 May 1999
1998
The Ely Sequence – Music from Ely Cathedral / guest conductor Peter de Blois / 19 July 1998
1997
Dido and Aeneas: Henry Purcell 1659-1695 – Venus and Adonis: John Blow 1649-1708 / dir. Peter Walls / 20 December 1997
Missa Christus Ascendens: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611 – with sacred works by Victoria and Ortiz / dir. Peter Walls / 17 June 1997
Missa Christus Ascendens: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611 – with sacred works by Victoria and Ortiz / dir. Peter Walls / 7 June 1997
St John Passion: Orlandi de Lassus 1532?-1594 – with motets by Lassus and Peter Philips / dir. Peter Walls / 28 March 1997
St John Passion: Orlandi de Lassus 1532?-1594 – with motets by Lassus and Peter Philips / dir. Peter Walls / 27 March 1997
1996
Mass for Four Voices: William Byrd 1540?-1623 – with Carols from around the world / dir. Peter Walls / 21 December 1996
Venetian Vespers – music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries / dir. Peter Walls / 7 September 1996
1995
Music for the Coronation of James II – works by Purcell, Child, Turner / dir. Peter Walls / 23 September 1995
Missa Pange Lingua: Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521 – with secular vocal works by Josquin, Sermisy and Willaert / dir. Peter Walls / 28 June 1995
1994
A Lutheran Christmas – works by Bach and Buxtehude / dir. Peter Walls / 19 November 1994
G P da Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria – with secular vocal works by Orlando di Lasso / dir. Peter Walls / 15 June 1994
Heinrich Schutz: St Matthew Passion / dir. Peter Walls / 14 March 1994
1993
Lectiones matutinae de Nativitate Christi – Orlandi de Lassus / dir. Peter Walls / 8 December 1993
A Mass for the Nativity of John the Baptist – Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 / dir. Peter Walls / 29 June 1993
1992
Missa in te Domine Speravi: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594 / dir. Simon Ravens / 1 November 1992
Printemps: Claude de Jeune 1528?-1600 / dir. Simon Ravens / 31 October 1992
St Matthew Passion: Claudin de Sermisy 1490?-1562/Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521 / dir. Simon Ravens / 29 October 1992
Dido and Aeneas: Henry Purcell 1659-1695 / dir. Peter Walls / 22 August 1992
Sacred Music: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585 – Spem in Alium / Videte Miraculum / Lamentations of Jeremiah / Eight Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter / dir. Simon Ravens / 10 March 1992
Missa Cantate - John Sheppard 1520?-1560? / dir. Simon Ravens / 4 March 1992
Mass for Five Voices: William Byrd 1540?-1623 – with the plainsong and polyphonic propers for a Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary / dir. Simon Ravens / 2 March 1992
1990
Venetian Christmas Vespers – Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 / dir. Peter Walls / 4 December 1990
Missa Tu es Petrus – G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 / dir. Simon Ravens / 16 September 1990
Motets - JS Bach 1685-1750/Funeral Sentences - Henry Purcell 1659-1695 / dir. Simon Ravens / 22 July 1990
1989
Carols and Lullabies – Jack Body: Five Lullabies / dir. Simon Ravens / 5 December 1989
Officium Defunctorum (Requiem) – Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548?-1611 / dir. Simon Ravens / 17 September 1989
The Tudor Consort with lutenist William Bower / dir. Simon Ravens / 16 August 1989
Songs of Sundrie Natures – William Byrd 1540?-1623 / dir. Simon Ravens / 13 June 1989
"Out of the Deep" – Music for a Virtuoso Bass / dir. Simon Ravens / 22 April 1989
1988
"The Lighte of Candelles" – 16th century English music for the Latin Rite / dir. Simon Ravens / 8 May 1988
The Play of Daniel – 1988 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts Performance / dir. Simon Ravens / 13 March 1988
1987
Missa Papae Marcelli – G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 / dir. Simon Ravens / 20 September 1987
A Medieval Miscellany/ Messe de Notre Dame – Guillaume de Machaut 1300?-1377 / dir. Simon Ravens / 24 June 1987
“Pastime with good company…” – Tudor social music / dir. Simon Ravens / 8 February 1987
1986
St Cecilia’s Day Recital / dir. Simon Ravens / 22 November 1986
“In quires and places…” / dir. Simon Ravens / 12 September 1986
Music of the Tudor Church / dir. Simon Ravens / 23 April 1986
