December 27, 2009

Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Boy Jesus in the Temple, Museo dell'Opera del duomo, Siena, 1308-11

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. (NRSV, Luke 2:46).


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers Quartet

Prelude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie:
listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Infant holy [text] [King's College: YouTube], Polish Carol

Mass Setting: Missa O magnum mysterium [Westminster: YouTube; Quire/Voyces: listen] Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Motet: O magnum mysterium [text] [Cambridge Singers: YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Postlude: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 [Kibbie: listen; Bish: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

There is no evensong today.

December 24-25, 2009

Mosaic of the Journey to Bethlehem, Church of St. Saviour in Chora, Istanbul, 11th cent.

The Nativity of the Lord

4:00 pm: A Festival of Lessons and Carols
The Cathedral Singers

Voluntary: Quatrième suite de Noël [listen], Claude-Benigne Balbastre (1724-99)

Carols: Jesus comes [text], Donald James

O beatum et sacrosanctum diem [text] [Peiyang: YouTube], Peter Philips (1561-1628)

The Holy Son of God Most High (A Christmas Carol) [text], Peter Hurford (b. 1930)

The Blessed Son of God [text] [Winchester: YouTube] [Christ Church Oxford: NML](info); Canterbury Ohio:YouTube], Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The Lamb [text] [King's Singers: listen; Sixteen: listen; 9 videos: YouTube], words by William Blake (1757-1827) and music by John Tavener (b. 1944)

There is no rose of such virtue [text] [Trinity Portland: NML](info), George Thalben-Ball (1896-87)

Susanni from Five Carols [text] [Musica Intima: NML](info), Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936)

Bogoróditse Djévo, [text] [King's Singers: listen; Friday's Voices: listen; Palissander: listen; 4 videos: YouTube], Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Ave Maria à 8 [text], [Resistencia: YouTube; Tallis Scholars: NML](info), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

O magnum mysterium [text] [Los Angeles: listen; 5 videos: YouTube], Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

So said the angel [text], Peter Skellern (b. 1947)

Long the night [text], Ukrainian melody arr. Roy Massey

Hodie Christus Natus Est [ text] [Amici Cantatores: listen] [Calhoun: YouTube] [Dresdener Kreuzchor: YouTube], Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Voluntary: Vom Himmel hoch [listen], Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)


Lorenzo Costa, Nativity, Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth (NRSV, John 1:14).

11:00 pm: Procession, Blessing of the Crib & Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: 18th century Noëls [listen], Claude-Benigne Balbastre (1724-99), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) et al

Introit: Venez, divin Messie [text] [Jobin: YouTube], French 16th cent.

Mass Setting: Messe de Minuit pour Noël [listen], Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)

Motets: All my heart this night rejoices [text] [JBU: YouTube], Johann Ebeling (1620[37]- 1666[76]);

O come, little children [text] [Grand View: YouTube], Johann Peter Schultz (1747-1800);

In the bleak midwinter [text] [8 videos: YouTube], Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Postlude: From heaven high to earth I come [listen], Garth Edmundson (1900-71)


Jacopo Bassano, Annunciation to the shepherds, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, 1533

Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified [NRSV, Luke 2:9].

Nativity of the Lord I [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Trebles

Prelude: Noël en musette [Bordon: YouTube], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)

Introit: Sussex Carol [text] [7 videos: YouTube], arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Mass Setting: Carol Mass, Rupert Lang (b. 1948)

Motet: Love came down at Christmas [text] [King's: YouTube], R. O. Morris (1886-1948)

Postlude: Noël suisse [Tompkins: listen], Louis-Claude Daquin

December 20, 2009

Rogier van der Weyden, Visitation, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, c.1445

And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior [NRSV, Luke 1:46-47].



10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Trebles and the Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Partita “Veni Emmanuel,” James Woodman (b. 1956)

Introit: People, look east [text] [3 videos: YouTube; 3 songs: We7], French traditional, arr. Martin Shaw (1875-1958)

Mass Setting: Missa “Dixit Maria” [Herreweghe: YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612)

Motet: Dixit Maria [text] [Colorado: listen; 7 videos: YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler

Postlude: Magnificat, BWV 733 [Kibbie: listen; Fagius: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Dessiens éternels from La Nativité du Seigneur [Jones: YouTube; Jacobs: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Introit: There is no rose of such virtue [text] [Trinity Portland: NML](info), George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987)

Preces and Responses: "Guildford,” Andrew Millington (b. 1952)

Psalm: 33 (Turle)

Canticles: Service in C, George Thalben-Ball

Anthem: Ave Maria à 8 [text], [Resistencia: YouTube; Tallis Scholars: NML] (info), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Postlude: La Vierge et l’enfant from La Nativité du Seigneur [Innig: listen; Alain: YouTube], Olivier Messiaen

December 13, 2009

St. John the Baptist, 17th cent. Greek Orthodox Icon

John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire [NRSV, Luke 3:16].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Men's Voices

Prelude: Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 [Alain:YouTube; Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube]; Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Advent Prose [text/listen], Plainsong, Mode 1

Mass Setting: Missa Adventus et Quadragesimae, XVII [St. Benedict's: listen], Plainsong, 11th cent.

Motet: Fuit homo [Matthew Scott: text/YouTube], Plainsong, Mode 5

Postlude: Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 [Isoir: YouTube; Kibbie: listen; Stockmeier: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
Men's Voices

Prelude: Conditor alme siderum from Le Tombeau de Titelouze, Op. 38, No.1, [Michael Keeley: NML] (info), Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

Introit: Advent Prose [text/listen], Plainsong, Mode 1

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 103 (tone 8.2)

Magnificat: Tone 2.1 (Antiphon - O Emmanuel [text/listen])

Nunc Dimittis: Tone 3.5 (Antiphon - Preserve us, O Lord)

Anthem: Salus Aeterna [text], Mode 7

Postlude: Conditor alme siderum [Préfontaine: NML] (info), Jehan Titelouze (1562-1633)

December 6, 2009

St. John the Baptist, Moscow School, State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, 1560s

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me [NRSV, Malachi 3:1a].

Second Sunday of Advent [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Trebles and Women's Voices

Prelude: Sleepers Wake, BWV 645 [Alain: YouTube; de Groen: YouTube; Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Jesus Christ the apple tree [text], Somerset folk song, arr. Bullard

Mass Setting: Messe basse [American Boychoir: listen; Cambridge Singers: listen], Gabriel Fauré (1825-1924)

Motet: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming [text] [Cambridge Singers: listen], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), arr. Phil Mattson

Postlude: Sleepers Wake, Joseph Ahrens (1904-97)

4:00 pm Advent Service of Readings and Organ Music

Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, Bwv 659 [Alain: YouTube; Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube]; Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Trio super Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660 [Kibbie: listen; Bryndorf: YouTube; Stockmeier: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach

Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, Bwv 661 [Isoir: YouTube; Kibbie: listen; Stockmeier: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach

BWV 559, BWV 660, BWV 661 [Rogg: YouTube]

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 [Alain: listen; de Groen: listen; Kibbie:listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Desseins éternels from La Nativité du Seigneur [Latry/Weir/Gerstein: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Wachet auf, Joseph Ahrens (1904-97)

Variations “Veni Emmanuel” [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)

6:00 pm Eucharist of Remembrance on the 20th anniversary of the Massacre at the École Polytechnique
Women of the Cathedral Singers and Concerto Della Donna, Iwan Edwards, director

Prelude: How blessed are you faithful souls, Op. 122, No. 6 [Sonnleitner: listen], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)

Introit: Ubi caritas [text], Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)

Anthem: When I am afraid [text], Michael Bojesen (b. 1960)

Motet: Ave Maria [text], Allan Bevan (b. 1951)

Anthem: Heaven Somewhere [text], Spiritual, arr. Stephen Hatfield (b. 1956)

Postlude: Force et agilité des corps glorieux from Les Corps glorieux [Latry: listen; Bate: listen; Weir: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

November 29, 2009

Nicholas Bataille and Hennequin de Bruges, New Jerusalem from the Apocalypse Tapestry, Angers, c.1570


In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety [NRSV, Jeremiah 33:16].

The First Sunday of Advent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Variations “Veni Emmanuel” [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)

Introit: Jesus comes [text], Donald James

Mass Setting: Missa in Adventu, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)

Motet: Never weather-beaten sail [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Postlude: Rhapsody “Lo, he comes,” William Lloyd Webber (1914-82)


4:00 pm A Procession with Lessons and Carols for Advent
The Cathedral Choirs with Diocesan Choristers

Preludes: Variations “Veni Emmanuel” [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
“A Lovely Rose is Blooming” [Rübsam: listen], Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) [BNQ]

Responsory: I look from afar [text], Patrick Wedd (b.1948) [BNQ]

Antiphon: O Emmanuel [text/listen]

Carol: Never weather-beatan sail [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Antiphon: O Radix Jesse [text/listen]

Carols: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming [text] [Cambridge Singers: listen], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) [BNQ], arr. Phil Mattson
Jesus Christ the apple tree [text], Somerset folk song

Antiphon: O Sapientia [text/listen]

Carol: Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme [Thomas: text/listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Antiphon: O Virgo virginum [text]

Antiphon: O Oriens [text/listen]

Carol: People, look east [text] [listen], French traditional, arr. Martin Shaw (1875-1958)[BNQ]

Antiphon: O Rex Gentium [text/listen]

Carol: Christ is the world’s true light [text], Walter Kendall Stanton (1891-1978)

Postlude: Helmsley (Lo, he comes with clouds descending) from Six Fantasies on Hymn Tunes, Op. 72, Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
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