Ballarat Festival of Organ and Fine Music 2025: The Music of the Clock

The Music of the Clock
Cantus temporum: Paul Bentley-Angell, Matthew Champion, Louisa HunterBradley, Grantley McDonald, Daniel Thomson, Quin Thomson

In 1321, St Catherine’s monastery in Rouen installed a clock whose mechanical bells played the Advent hymn Conditor alme siderum (Dear Creator of the Stars) before the striking of the hour. Over the coming centuries, musical clocks appeared across Europe, crossed the Atlantic to the Americas, and travelled with the Jesuits into Asia. In collaboration with the Australian Research Council project ‘The Sounds of Time’, this program explores the melodies that were played on these remarkable and innovative devices.
Guillaume Du Fay (1397–1474), Conditor alme siderum
Guillaume Du Fay (1397–1474), Epiphaniam Domino
Sequence for the Feast of the Purification, Inviolata, intacta et casta es Maria
Josquin des Prez (c.1450/5–1521), Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria
Easter Sequence, Victime paschali laudes
Josquin des Prez (c.1450/5– 1521), Victimae paschali laudes
Antoine Busnoys (c.1430–1492), Victimae paschali laudes
Antoine Busnoys (c.1430–1492), Regina coeli laetare
Orlande de Lassus (c.1532–1594), Tempus est ut revertar
Pentecost sequence, Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia
Orlande de Lassus (c.1532–1594), Veni sancte spiritus
Marian Antiphon, Ave Maris Stella
Antoine Busnoys (c.1430–1492), Anthoni usque limina
Marian Antiphon, Salve Regina
Josquin des Prez (c.1450/5– 1521), Ave Maria, gratia plena
– Suite in g minor – for the full ensemble.

Sunday January 12, 8pm

St Patrick’s Cathedral, 3 Lyons Street South, Ballarat Central VIC 3350

TICKETS: $40 – $5