The Tallis Scholars
Mon 11th May
7.00pm
St James Church
Doors open at 6.15pm
The performance will end at approx. 8.45pm
Music from the Sistine Chapel
PALESTRINA: Missa In te domine speravi (a 6) (Kyrie)
MORALES: Regina caeli
PALESTRINA: Missa Tu es Petrus (a 6) (Gloria)
FESTA: Quam pulchra es
CARPENTRAS: Lamentations
PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli (Credo)
Interval
ALLEGRI: Miserere
PALESTRINA: Missa Confitebor tibi domine (Sanctus)
JOSQUIN: Praeter rerum seriem
PALESTRINA: Missa Brevis (Agnus dei)
Tickets £50 | £45 | £40 | £35 | £10 | U25s £5
The Renaissance composers in this concert all worked in the Sistine Chapel and wrote for the choir there, and a number of the works in this programme can be identified as having been written specifically for that building: Allegri’s Miserere was composed for the exclusive use of the Sistine Chapel during the Tenebrae services of Holy Week, Morales was there for much of his life, and Carpentras’ Lamentations are especially interesting as he is said to have gone back there later in life and found the choir to be using faulty copies.
The framework for the programme is a composite mass by Palestrina.