The Tudor Consort

Past performances

2025

Monteverdi Vespers

 

Saturday 13 September

Dioclesian

With The Queen's Closet 

Saturday 31 May — Sunday 1 June

Media Vita

 

Saturday 12 April — Friday 18 April

2024

O Nata Lux

 

Saturday 21 September

REPAST

 

Saturday 15 June

Alone to Sacrifice

Music for Holy Week 

Friday 29 March

2023

Hodie!

Christmas with The Tudor Consort 

Saturday 9 December

Byrd 400 - Sing Joyfully

 

Saturday 1 July

Bach’s St Matthew Passion

With the Chiesa Ensemble 

Saturday 25 March

2022

Messiah

With the NZSO 

Friday 9 December

Missa Papae Marcelli

 

Saturday 3 September

Times of Penitence

 

Saturday 9 July

Haydn’s Nelson Mass

With Camerata 

Friday 27 May

2021

O Mors Inevitabilis – NEW DATE

500th anniversary of the deaths of Josquin Des Prez and Robert Fayrfax 

Saturday 6 November

ICONIC

POSTPONED from June 26 due to Covid restrictions 

Saturday 24 July

Music for Holy Week

 

Friday 2 April

2020

Field of Cloth of Gold

 

Saturday 7 November

Invocations

 

Saturday 29 August

2019

Music for a Great Space

 

Saturday 16 November

The Patterns of Time

 

Saturday 14 September

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

With Aurora IV 

Saturday 22 June

Tenebrae

Music for Holy Week 

Friday 19 April

Chansons D'Amour

Renaissance Love Songs 

Saturday 16 February

2018

Secrets of The Armed Man

The Fall of Constantinople 

Saturday 3 November

Dixit Dominus

 

Saturday 1 September

Exaudi

Songs for cello and choir 

Saturday 28 July

Eternal Sacrifice

Music for Holy Week 

Friday 30 March

2017

A Consort Christmas

 

Saturday 16 December

Dona Nobis Pacem

A Concert for World Peace Day 

Saturday 16 September

A German Requiem (London Version)

Johannes Brahms 

Saturday 27 May

The Desolate City

Music for Holy Week 

Friday 14 April

2016

Love, Death and the Maiden

Palestrina / Guerrero / Vaughan Williams 

Saturday 5 November

Portal to Paradise

Lobo / Howells Requiem 

Saturday 27 August

St Matthew Passion

Heinrich Schütz 

Friday 25 March

Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas

Taverner / Sheppard 

Saturday 13 February

2015

Officium Defunctorum

Victoria's Requiem 

Saturday 31 October

Sweet Sixteen

 

Saturday 5 September

1515—Sheppard and Wylkynson

 

Saturday 6 June

Miserere—Music for Holy Week

 

Friday 3 April

2014

Singet dem Herrn

Sing a New Song 

Saturday 29 November

Handel’s Israel in Egypt

The Tudor Consort with Chiesa Ensemble 

Saturday 6 September

By Popular Request...

 

Saturday 31 May

Music for Holy Week

 

Saturday 12 April

Subscriber-only concert - In Praise of Wine

 

Sunday 9 February

2013

Puer natus est nobis

Early music for Christmas 

Saturday 7 December

Renaissance Influences VI

Modern Madrigals 

Saturday 31 August

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Music by Britten, Poulenc and Hindemith 

Saturday 22 June

2012

Renaissance Influences V

Springtime 

Saturday 24 November

Missa Mexicana

Padilla: Missa Ego flos campi 

Saturday 15 September

The ‘Earthquake’ Mass

Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus 

Saturday 19 May

Schütz: St Matthew Passion

 

Saturday 31 March

2011

A Britten Christmas

A Ceremony of Carols/A Boy Was Born 

Saturday 10 December

Renaissance Influences IV

Made in New Zealand 

Saturday 8 October

The 40-part motet

Spem in Alium 

Saturday 23 July

Music for Holy Week

 

Friday 22 April

Songs of Prophecy

Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum 

Wednesday 6 April

Music from the Sistine Chapel

 

Saturday 26 February

2010

Christmas Oratorio - JS Bach

 

Saturday 18 December

A German Requiem

Schütz / D. Scarlatti 

Friday 3 September

La Vie...La Mort

Motets of life and death by Jean Mouton, Nicolas Gombert and Josquin Des Prez 

Saturday 12 June

Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae

Music for Holy Week 

Friday 2 April

Gradualia

Byrd motets 

Saturday 13 February

2009

A Requiem for Philip II

Music by Morales and Lobo 

Saturday 7 November

J. S. Bach – The Six Motets

 

Saturday 12 September

Around Renaissance Europe in 80 Minutes

 

Wednesday 24 June

Tenebrae Responsories

Music for Holy Week by Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) 

Friday 10 April

Songs of the Sun and Moon

 

Friday 20 February

2008

Handel's Messiah

 

Thursday 4 December

Renaissance Influences II

Howells and the Tudor tradition 

Sunday 19 October

Humphrey, Blow and Purcell

Restoration Verse Anthems 

Sunday 10 August

A Tudor Compline

Tallis and Sheppard 

Saturday 14 June

Miserere

Music for Holy Week 

Friday 21 March

2007

Es ist ein Reis entsprungen

Music for Christmas 

Saturday 15 December

Sacré et profane

French choral music of the 20th century 

Friday 5 October

Renaissance influences

Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem / Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas 

Sunday 29 July

Missa Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 

Wednesday 13 June

Convertere ad Dominum

Victoria's Lamentations 

Friday 6 April

Jesus autem transiens

music from the Eton Choirbook 

Saturday 24 February

2006

Christmas Oratorio: Heinrich Schütz / Messe de Minuit: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

 

Saturday 16 December

Magnificat BWV 243: J S Bach 1685-1750

with additional settings of the Magnificat by Lassus and Monteverdi 

Sunday 30 July

Spem in Alium: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585/ The Great Service: William Byrd 1540?-1623

 

Sunday 4 June

Chandos Anthems

G F Handel 1685-1759 

Saturday 3 June

Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christe

Richard Davy 1467?-1538 

Friday 2 June

Choral Music for Holy Week 2006

 

Friday 14 April

2005

Missa Puer Natus est Nobis

Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585 

Sunday 18 December

Ancient and Modern

tour repertoire for Europe 

Saturday 22 October

“Cantor and Friends”

European tour fundraising recital 

Sunday 18 September

Bonum est Confiteri Domino: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1645-1704

O Sing unto the Lord: Henry Purcell 1659-1695 

Saturday 27 August

Canticum Canticorum

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 

Sunday 24 July

Choral Music for ANZAC Day 2005

“Composures” 

Monday 25 April

Choral Music for Holy Week 2005

 

Friday 25 March

2004

Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem

Cipriano de Rore 1516-1565 

Saturday 18 December

Komm, Jesu, Komm (BWV 229)

J S Bach 

Saturday 30 October

Seven Last Words from the Cross

James MacMillan 

Saturday 21 August

Madrigals and Verse Anthems of Elizabethan England

Various composers: Weelkes, Wilbye, Gibbons, Morley 

Sunday 13 June

Madrigals, Full Anthems and Latin Motets of Elizabethan England

Various composers: Weelkes, Wilbye, Gibbons, Morley 

Sunday 6 June

Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2004

various composers: Allegri, Tallis, Weelkes, Lotti 

Friday 9 April

Missa Ave Maris Stella

Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521 

Sunday 15 February

2003

Three Shakespeare Songs

Ralph Vaughan Williams 

Saturday 13 December

A Vespers Meditation

Magnificats and Motets 

Friday 12 September

When David Heard

Tomkins, Weelkes 

Sunday 6 July

Renaissance choral music for ANZAC Day 2003

"Composures" 

Friday 25 April

Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2003

various composers: sacred works by Allegri, Bach, Victoria and Gibbons 

Friday 18 April

Benjamin Britten

Hymn to St Cecilia 

Sunday 9 March

Missa Simile est Regnum Coelorum

Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611 

Sunday 26 January

2002

Te Deum Laudamus

Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary 

Tuesday 17 December

Sacred vocal works

Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585 

Tuesday 15 October

William Byrd: The Three Masses II

Mass for Five Voices 

Tuesday 11 June

William Byrd: The Three Masses I

Mass for Three Voices and Mass for Four Voices 

Sunday 9 June

Renaissance choral music for Holy Week 2002

various composers: sacred works by Ferrabosco, Taverner, Gesualdo, Victoria and des Pres 

Friday 29 March

Old St Pauls' "ChoralFest"

The Tudor Consort performs works by Gibbons, Palestrina, John IV of Portugal 

Sunday 17 March

The Short Service

Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625, with additional sacred works 

Sunday 17 February

2001

Missa Papae Marcelli

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 

Tuesday 27 November

2000

Berliner Mass

Arvo Pärt 1935- 

Saturday 9 December

Portuguese Splendour

Renaissance music from Portugal 

Saturday 27 May

1999

The Song of Simeon

Counter-Reformation Motets: Peter Philips 1561-1628 

Tuesday 10 August

Play of the Virtues

Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179 

Sunday 30 May

G F Handel: Dixit Dominus / Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria

 

Saturday 15 May

1998

The Ely Sequence

Music from Ely Cathedral 

Sunday 19 July

1997

Dido and Aeneas: Henry Purcell 1659-1695

Venus and Adonis: John Blow 1649-1708 

Saturday 20 December

Missa Christus Ascendens: Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548-1611

with sacred works by Victoria and Ortiz 

Saturday 7 June

St John Passion: Orlandi de Lassus 1532?-1594

with motets by Lassus and Peter Philips 

Thursday 27 March

1996

Mass for Four Voices: William Byrd 1540?-1623

with Carols from around the world 

Saturday 21 December

Venetian Vespers

music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries 

Saturday 7 September

1995

Music for the Coronation of James II

works by Purcell, Child, Turner 

Saturday 23 September

Missa Pange Lingua: Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521

with secular vocal works by Josquin, Sermisy and Willaert 

Wednesday 28 June

1994

A Lutheran Christmas

works by Bach and Buxtehude 

Saturday 19 November

G P da Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria

with secular vocal works by Orlando di Lasso 

Wednesday 15 June

Heinrich Schutz: St Matthew Passion

 

Monday 14 March

1993

Lectiones matutinae de Nativitate Christi

Orlandi de Lassus 

Wednesday 8 December

A Mass for the Nativity of John the Baptist

Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 

Tuesday 29 June

1992

Missa in te Domine Speravi: Orlandi de Lassus 1532-1594

 

Sunday 1 November

Printemps: Claude de Jeune 1528?-1600

 

Saturday 31 October

St Matthew Passion: Claudin de Sermisy 1490?-1562/Missa d'ung aultre amer: Josquin des Prez 1450?-1521

 

Thursday 29 October

Dido and Aeneas: Henry Purcell 1659-1695

 

Saturday 22 August

Sacred Music: Thomas Tallis 1505?-1585

Spem in Alium / Videte Miraculum / Lamentations of Jeremiah / Eight Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter 

Tuesday 10 March

Missa Cantate - John Sheppard 1520?-1560?

 

Wednesday 4 March

Mass for Five Voices: William Byrd 1540?-1623

with the plainsong and polyphonic propers for a Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

Monday 2 March

1990

Venetian Christmas Vespers

Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 

Tuesday 4 December

Missa Tu es Petrus

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 

Sunday 16 September

Motets - JS Bach 1685-1750/Funeral Sentences - Henry Purcell 1659-1695

 

Sunday 22 July

1989

Carols and Lullabies

Jack Body: Five Lullabies 

Tuesday 5 December

Officium Defunctorum (Requiem)

Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548?-1611 

Sunday 17 September

The Tudor Consort with lutenist William Bower

 

Wednesday 16 August

Songs of Sundrie Natures

William Byrd 1540?-1623 

Tuesday 13 June

"Out of the Deep"

Music for a Virtuoso Bass 

Saturday 22 April

1988

"The Lighte of Candelles"

16th century English music for the Latin Rite 

Sunday 8 May

The Play of Daniel

1988 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts Performance 

Sunday 13 March

1987

Missa Papae Marcelli

G P da Palestrina 1525?-1594 

Sunday 20 September

A Medieval Miscellany/ Messe de Notre Dame

Guillaume de Machaut 1300?-1377 

Wednesday 24 June

“Pastime with good company…”

Tudor social music 

Sunday 8 February

1986

St Cecilia’s Day Recital

 

Saturday 22 November

“In quires and places…”

 

Friday 12 September

Music of the Tudor Church

 

Wednesday 23 April