October 2019: Music for Renewal



Music for Renewal

October 26, 2019
Saturday, 4pm

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
1823 Ninth Street
Berkeley, CA
October 27, 2019
Sunday, 4pm

Church of the Advent
261 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA
Tickets: $15 - Order tickets online or at the door

Jonathon Hampton directs the 16-voice, early music chorus, Tactus SF, as it begins its fourth season and its first with Hampton conducting. Music of d’India, Victoria, and Hassler represent renewal as depicted at the start of high masses. More sacred text, enlivening aspects of the Christian faith, as so much 16th Century music does, is brought to our ears through polyphony by Porta and Morales. Additional biblical allegory, particularly of the ascension, is brought to life through compositions by Praetorius, Isaac, Handl-Gallus, and Tye, spanning the major European countries contributing to the canon of Renaissance masterpieces.

Concert program [PDF]:

In principio creavit DeusSigismondo d'India
Asperges me Gregorian chant
Vidi aquam Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa secunda - Kyrie Hans Leo Hassler
O sacrum conviviumCristóbal de Morales
O sacrum conviviumTomás Luis de Victoria
O sacrum convivium Costanzo Porta
The Lord ascendeth up on high Michael Praetorius
Ascendit DeusGregorian chant
Ascendit DeusChristoph Dalitz
Alleluia Dominus in Sina Heinrich Isaac
Missa Ascendens Christus - Sanctus/Benedictus Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ascendens ChristusJacob Handl Gallus