Hans Memling, Presentation in the Temple, Museo del Prado, Madrid, c. 1470When 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 of Our Lord [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs
Prelude: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin / In peace and joy I now depart, BWV 616 [text] [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); Seventy-Nine Chorales, op. 28 (No. 56: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin / In peace and joy I now depart) [text] [Preston: NML] (info), Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). Both pieces after the Nunc Dimittis.
Introit: Alleluia, Senex puerum portabat [a 5 voces] [Carwood: YouTube], William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
Mass Setting: Missa de Beata Virgine [Jachet de Mantoue: YouTube], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)
Motet: Senex puerum portabat [a 4 voces] [King's: listen], William Byrd
Postlude: Lumen ad revelationem / A Light for Revelation from Six Antiennes pour le Temps de Noël, Op. 48, No. 6 [Berg: YouTube; Baker: NML] (info), Marcel Dupré
4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf / Lord God, now open wide Thy Heav'n, BWV 617 (text) [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) after the Nunc Dimittis.
Introit: A song of the light, David Hurd (b. 1950)
Preces and Responses: Bernard Rose (1916-96)
Psalm: 84 (Noble)
The Presentation of Our Lord [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs
Prelude: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin / In peace and joy I now depart, BWV 616 [text] [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); Seventy-Nine Chorales, op. 28 (No. 56: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin / In peace and joy I now depart) [text] [Preston: NML] (info), Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). Both pieces after the Nunc Dimittis.
Introit: Alleluia, Senex puerum portabat [a 5 voces] [Carwood: YouTube], William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
Mass Setting: Missa de Beata Virgine [Jachet de Mantoue: YouTube], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)
Motet: Senex puerum portabat [a 4 voces] [King's: listen], William Byrd
Postlude: Lumen ad revelationem / A Light for Revelation from Six Antiennes pour le Temps de Noël, Op. 48, No. 6 [Berg: YouTube; Baker: NML] (info), Marcel Dupré
4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf / Lord God, now open wide Thy Heav'n, BWV 617 (text) [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) after the Nunc Dimittis.
Introit: A song of the light, David Hurd (b. 1950)
Preces and Responses: Bernard Rose (1916-96)
Psalm: 84 (Noble)
Canticles: Double Choir in G, Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Anthem: When to the temple Mary went [St. Edmundsbury: YouTube], Johannes Eccard (1553-1611)
Postlude: Trio super: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland / Now come, saviour of the gentiles, BWV 660 [Kibbie: listen; Bryndorf: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach
Anthem: When to the temple Mary went [St. Edmundsbury: YouTube], Johannes Eccard (1553-1611)
Postlude: Trio super: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland / Now come, saviour of the gentiles, BWV 660 [Kibbie: listen; Bryndorf: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach
