The St. Olaf College Department of Music
presents

The St. Olaf Collegium Musicum
&
Early Music Singers

Gerald Hoekstra, director

Music for the Season: Music for Holy Week and Easter by Josquin, Lassus, Byrd, Gesualdo, Praetorius and Others

7:30 p.m. · Friday, April 30, 2004 · Urness Recital Hall

PROGRAM

I.   Music for Holy Week

De profundis clamavi — Josquin des Prez c. 1450-1521

Penitential Psalm no. 1, Domine ne in furore tuo — Orlande de Lassus c. 1532-1594

Ecce vidimus eum — Carlo Gesualdo c. 1561-1613

Early Music Singers

II.   Instrumental Music for the Season

Some of the compositions in this group were not conceived specifically as instrumental music. The Latin motets by Praetorius, Hassler, and Lassus and the chorale settings by Praetorius, LeMaistre, and von Bruck have texts in all voices and could be sung by choirs or vocal consorts. Renaissance instrumentalists, professional as well as amateur, however, saw this repertoire as equally suited for instrumental performance.   All of the motets and chorales heard here have texts appropriate for the Lenten or Easter seasons. The other pieces in this set are instrumental genres of two types: the pavane and the fantasia. The pavane (Ger: paduana ) began as a stately dance in duple meter but it soon evolved into an independent instrumental genre no longer used specifically for dancing but still maintaining the basic pulse and form of the dance. The fantasia is a genre cultivated especially by English composers and most notably for viol consort. Fantasias usually begin with an expansive imitative section and then proceed with short contrasting sections primarily in contrapuntal textures.

Peccavi fateor — cornetts, sackbuts, curtal — Michael Praetorius 1571-1621

Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir — recorders — settings by Michael Praetorius & Mattheus Le Maistre c. 1505-1577

Lachrimae Tristes — viols — John Dowland 1563-1626

Paduana a 4 — recorders — Johann Schop d. 1667

Christus, der du uns selig macht — cornetts, sackbuts, curtal — Michael Praetorius

Paduana a 5 — viols — Johann Schop

Fantasia a 5 no. 5 — viols — John Ward 1571-1638

Christ ist erstanden — recorders — Arnold von Bruck 1500-1554

Laetantur caeli — recorders — Hans Leo Hassler 1564-1612

Memor esto verbi tui — cornetts, sackbuts, curtal — Orlande de Lassus

Collegium Musicum

III.   Music for Easter

Surrexit pastor bonus — Orlande de Lassus

Haec dies, quam fecit Dominus — William Byrd 1543-1623

Benedicamus Domino — cornetts, sackbuts, curtal — Michael Praetorius

Hallelujah: Christ ist erstanden — solo voices, choirs, viols, cornetts, sackbuts, & organ — Michael Praetorius
              Soloists: Becca Trombly, Kirstine Wynn, David Braasch, David Scalise, Guhn Yeon Kim

Early Music Singers & Collegium Musicum

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Early Music Singers