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)