Eleventh Season, 2012 - 2013
Concert one
O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM: VICTORIA AND BYRD
- Settings of O magnum mysterium by Victoria and Byrd, Victoria's Missa O magnum mysterium, and Byrd's complete Gradualia Propers for the Feast of the Nativity
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 08:00 PM at St. Mary Mother of God
Saturday, December 17, 2011, 07:30 PM at St. Bernadette's
Concert two
MUSICA VATICANA
- Allegri Miserere (sung from our new performing edition from the original sources), Palestrina's Missa Tu es Petrus for double choir, Confitebor tibi and Surge, illuminare, Josquin's Ave Maria . . . virgo serena and Planxit autem David, and music of Morales, Soriano, and Jommelli
Saturday, March 03, 2012, 08:00 PM at St. Mary Mother of God
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 07:30 PM at St. Bernadette's
Concert three
THE LIGHTS OF EVENING 'ROUND US SHINE
Great music for the close of the day
- Tallis, Te lucis ante terminum (both versions), settings of In pace, in idipsum by Taverner and Sheppard, Palestrina's eight-part, first-mode settings of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Byrd's O lux beata Trinitas, the Lucis creator optime of Lassus, settings of In manus tuas by Sheppard and Tallis, Sheppard's Salvator mundi, Domine, Tallis's O nata lux de lumine, and the seven-part Magnificat and Nunc dimittis from the Ninth Service of Weelkes.
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 08:00 PM at St. Mary Mother of God
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 07:30 PM at St. Bernadette's