Geelong Friends of the MSO - Annual Recital 2011
MSO CHORUS 2011
TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
and the
PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO
Joby Talbot LEON from Path of
Miracles Australian premiere
Anon DUM ESSET REX
Orlando de Lassus JUSTORUM
ANIMAE
Anon TOTA PULCHRA EST
Jacob Clemens non Papa SANCTUS
Tomas Luis de Victoria VIDI
SPECIOSAM
Anon NIGRA SUM
Jacob Clemens non Papa EGO
FLOS CAMPI
Interval
Gabriel Jackson TO THE FIELD OF STARS (30’) World premiere (commissioned with the
Netherlands Chamber Choir and St Jacob’s Chamber Choir, Stockholm)
Sharon Draper ‘cello
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Chorus
Jonathan Grieves-Smith conductor
In the north-west corner of Spain lies the end of the known
world. Here is Finisterre where a curtain hangs between the mortal and the divine.
Here are found St James the Apostle’s bones beneath a strange constellation:
here is built the city of Santiago de Compostela – St James of the Field of
Stars – where for more than a thousand years pilgrims come to touch the hem of
the divine curtain.
Along the weary, arduous, dangerous journeys Renaissance pilgrims
were refreshed by the music of perhaps the most glorious of all Spanish
Renaissance composers, Tomas Luis de Victoria, who died four hundred years ago
in 1611. In a programme that pays homage to the pilgrim’s way and to Victoria himself,
the MSO Chorus recreates a taste of the rich melange of European music known in
Spain’s magnificent abbeys and cathedrals along the pilgrimage routes. One of
these cathedrals, an astonishing building standing in Leon, is the subject of an
exquisite contemporary tribute, Joby Talbot’s ‘Path of Miracles’.
Here receiving its world premiere, ‘To the Field of
Stars’ is an exquisite commission from an outstanding English composer Gabriel
Jackson. His is music steeped
in music of the past, transformed with genius into a singular, ecstatic
language. His is music that gently, persistently disturbs the curtain at the end
of the known world and allows us a heart-stopping glimpse of what lies beyond.
TICKET PRICES:
Adults $30
Pension Concession $25
Students/Child $10
Friends Of Mso $25 (Available from Box Office only - 5225 1200)
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:00 PM
The Basilica of St Mary of the Angels Yarra Street,
Geelong