SCOF Spring 2008

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Renaissance and other a cappella choral music

Gisela Tillier, Conductor

Spring 2008 Concert

The Spring 2008 Concert will focus on music with a Lenten and Passiontide theme.

Saturday, March 1st at 7:30 PM at Church of the Messiah, Church Street, Woods Hole, MA.

Sunday, March 2nd at 4:00 PM at St. Patrick's Church, Main Street, Falmouth, MA.

PROGRAM

1. Victoria: Pueri Hebraeorum

2. Victoria: Unus Ex Discipulis (Tenebrae Responsories No. 3)

3. Victoria: Eram Quasi Agnus (Tenebrae Responsories No. 4)

4. Morley: Canzonetta in C (instrumental)

5. Victoria: O Vos Omnes, Qui Transitis Per Viam (Feria Sexta in Parasceve)

6. Bach, JS: O Haupt, voll Blut und Wunden

7. Victoria: Tenebrae Factae Sunt (Tenebrae Responsories No. 8)

8. Morley: Canzonetta in G (instrumental)

9. Ingegneri: Tenebrae Factae Sunt

10. Handl: Ecce, Quomodo moritur

Intermission

11. Morley: Fantasia in D (instrumental)

12. Schutz: Three Motets - Quid commisisti, o dulcissime puer

iv. ErsterTeil, first part

v. Zweiter Teil, second part

vi. Dritter Teil, third part

13. Byrd: O God Which Art Most Merciful

14. Byrd: Prevent Us, Lord

Memorial Day Weekend Concert

St. Patrick's Church, Main Street, Falmouth.

Saturday, 24 May 2008 at 7:30PM

Sunday, 25 May 2008 at 4:00PM

This concert featured two joyous motets in praise of the Virgin Mary which will frame two pieces of a darker mood. The concert opened with an exuberant “Ave, Virgo Sanctissima” by Juan Navarro, one of the great Spanish composers of the Renaissance. The cool franco-flamish style still prevails in this motet, weaving a cantus firmus through the upper three parts. By contrast, the motet “Inclina, Domine, Aurem Tuam” by, Cristobal Morales, another composer of the Andalusian school, is proof of the more fervent and expressive hispanic style. The focus of this Memorial Day concert is a “Missa pro Defunctis” by Tomás Luis de Victoria, the great master of the Castillian school. In this “Requiem a 4 Voces”, Gregorian chant alternates with mostly four-part, sometimes lighter three-part settings of the liturgical texts used for the service commemorating the dead.

As a complement to the a cappella vocal offerings, Zachary Rothstein-Dowden, a senior at Falmouth Academy, played three selections of solo pieces for cello, among which we will hear a medieval May song and two minuets from the first partita by J.S. Bach The concert concluded with Cristóbal Morales’ “Regina Caeli”, a motet whose lines of praise of the Queen of Heavens are continuously interspersed by lively “Alleluia”s.