February 25, 2009

Salvator Dali, Blow the Trumpet in Sion

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, it is near- (NRSV, Joel 2:1)."

Ash Wednesday [Comments]

7:30 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Mass Setting: Missa Aedis Christi [CCC Dublin:

NML; New College: CML], Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Psalm: 51 [text] [listen]

Motet: Laboravi in gemitu [text], Thomas Morley (1557-1603)

Postlude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß? / O world, confess your grievous sin [Kibbie: listen], BWV 622, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

February 22, 2009

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Transfiguration, National Gallery, London, 1308-11

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them (NRSV, Mark 9:2).

Last Sunday after Epiphany [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Combined Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Alleluias sereins d'une ame qui desire le ciel from L'Ascension (Weir: listen), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Introit: O God, my king [text], John Amner (1579-1641)

Mass Setting: Missa ex machina, Robin Davies (b. 1975)

Motet: The Transfiguration [text], Larry King (1932-90)

Postlude: Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité [Weir: listen], Olivier Messiaen

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l’essence from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité [Weir: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Introit: In nomine Jesu [text], Jacob Handl (1550-91)

Preces and Responses: Jonathan Wild (b. 1969)

Psalm: 97 (Peasgood)

Canticles: "With tape," Robin Davies (b. 1975)

Anthem: The Transfiguration [text], Larry King (1932-90)

Postlude: Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité [Weir: listen], Olivier Messiaen

February 15, 2009

Cosimo Rosselli, The Healing of the Leper (detail), Cappella Sistina, Vatican, 1481-82

Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean!" (NRSV, Mark 1:41)."

The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Toccata quarta per l'elevazione [Tamminga: listen], Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

Introit: Haec dies [text], Jacob Arcadelt (c.1504-1568)

Mass Setting: Missa brevis for four voices in D [listen], Andrea Gabrieli (1545-1607)

Motet: O sacrum convivium [text], Giovanni Croce (1557-1609)

Postlude: Toccata sesta sopra i pedali, e senza [Tamminga: listen], Girolamo Frescobaldi

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Benedictus, Alec Rowley (1892-1958)

Introit: O Strength and Stay [text], Eric Harding Thiman (1900-75)

Preces and Responses: Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)

Psalm: 42, (Wedd)

Canticles: Charles Wood (1866-1926)

Anthem: For I went with the multitude [text], Peter Aston (b.1938)

Postlude: Benedictus, William Lloyd Webber (1914-82)

February 8, 2009

Healing Peter's Mother-in-law, from a 11th century manuscript from the Abbes Hitda von Meschede

Now Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told Jesus about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them. (NRSV, Mark 1:30-31)."

The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 223 [Chorale text] [Kee: YouTube], Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Introit: Ave Maria a 4 voces [text] [Westminster: listen], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Mass Setting: Missa super ut re mi fa sol la, Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)

Motet: Ego sum panis vivus [text], Juan de Esquivel Barahona (1560-1613)

Postlude: Praeludium in g-moll, BuxWV148 [Lehman:

YouTube], Dietrich Buxtehude

4:00 pm Evensong and Installation of Honorary Canons
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Miserere I, II [Moroney (clavicord): YouTube], William Byrd (1543-1623)

Introit: In manus tuas I [text] [Sixteen: listen], John Sheppard (1515-60)

Preces and Responses: William Smith (1603-45)

Psalm: 81, (Ley, Wesley)

Canticles: Short Service, Thomas Morley (1557-1603)

Anthem: Cibavit eos [text] [Quink: listen], William Byrd

Postlude: Ut re mee fa sol la [Hogwood: YouTube], William Byrd

February 1, 2009

Giotto di Bondone, The Presentation, Cappella Scrovegni, Padua, 1304-06

When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (NRSV, Luke 2:22).

The Presentation in the Temple [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 616 [Chorale text] [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

79 Chorales for organ, Op. 28, No. 74, "How beauteous beams the morning star" [Chorale text] [Van Oosten: listen], Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

Introit: Hodie beata virgo [text] [Cardinall's Music: listen], William Byrd (1540-1623)
Mass Setting: Gloucester Service, Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Motet: Senex puerum portabat [text] [Cardinall's Music: listen]; William Byrd

Postlude: 6 Antiphons for Christmastide, Op. 48/6 "Lumen ad revelationem" [text], [Van Osten: listen], Marcel Dupré

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 616 [Chorale text] [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

79 Chorales for organ, Op. 28, No. 74, "How beauteous beams the morning star" [Chorale text] [Van Oosten: listen], Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

Introit: Senex puerum portabat [text] [King's College: listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)

Preces and Responses: Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Psalm: 84 (Noble)

Magnificat: Magnificat in G [St. John's: NML], Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Nunc dimittis: Nunc dimittis in G [St. Paul's: listen], Charles Villiers Stanford

Anthem: Hodie beata virgo [text] [King's College: listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Postlude: Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, BWV 617 [Chorale text] [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach