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

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