AVE MARIS STELLA
December 16, 2011 at 8 PM
St. Catherine of Siena
814 NE 85th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
and
December 18, 2011 at 2 PM
Our Lady Star of the Sea
1513 6th Ave
Bremerton, Wa 98337
CREDO from William Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices
Canonici gives its premiere performances in Seattle and on the peninsula in Bremerton with our first concert of the season, Ave Maris Stella. This program features Marian music by two of the greatest Catholic composers of the Renaissance, Dufay and Byrd. Dufay composed some of his greatest Marian works for an ensemble of three voices as was the convention of the time. Byrd, however, choose this more intimate voicing for the private devotions of recusant families in a time when he and his colleagues more often wrote larger-scale music. Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices serves as the cornerstone of this Advent program, which also includes music by Leonel Power, Gilles Binchois, and Robert Fayrfax.
PROGRAM
Mass for Three Voices William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
Ave Maris Stella chant
Ave Maris Stella Guillaume Dufay (1397?-1474)
Ave Maris Stella William Byrd
Alma redemptoris Mater Guillaume Dufay
Ave Regina Leonel Power (c.1370-1445)
Magnificat Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460)
Beata progenies Leonel Power
Benedicite! Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)
A selection of carols including:
Angelus ad Virginem
Lullay My Liking
Hayl, Mary, ful of grace
Mervele noght, Josep
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