March 1, 2009

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Temptation of Christ, Frick collection, New York, 1308-11

He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him (NRSV, Mark 1:13).

The First Sunday of Lent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Präludium c-Moll (1841) [Miller: listen], Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)

Introit: The Lent Prose [text] [CID monks: listen], Plainsong, tone 5

Mass Setting: Missa “Simile est Regnum Coelorum" [CCC Oxford: CML] Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 –1611)

Motet: Super flumina Babylonis a 4 voces [text] [Westminster Cath.: listen] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)

Postlude: Fuge e-Moll (1839) [Innig: listen], Felix Mendelssohn

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Andante [Tharp: NML] from Organ Sonata No. 6 in d, Op. 65, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)

Introit: The Lent Prose [text] [CID monks: listen], Plainsong, tone 5

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 130 (Tone 4.6)

Magnificat: Plainsong Tone 8.1; Organ verses by Michel Corrette (1707-95) [Vernet: listen]

Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong Tone 1.4

Organ: Fuga [Tharp: NML] from Organ Sonata No. 6, Felix Mendelssohn

Postlude: Choral mit Variationen [Tharp: NML] from Organ Sonata No. 6, Felix Mendelssohn