February 28, 2010

Gérard Jollain, Christ lamenting Jerusalem, engraving, c. 1670

How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing [NRSV, Luke 13:34b]!

Second Sunday of Lent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Variations “Wondrous Love” [Reed: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)

Introit: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake [text], Richard Farrant (c.1530-80)

Mass Setting: Missa brevis No. 2 (for lent) [Bell: YouTube], Healey Willan (1880-1968)

Motet: Almighty and everlasting God [St. John's: text/YouTube], Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Postlude: Sonata in C [Crowell: listen], James Woodman (b. 1957)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Prelude “Pange Lingua,” Flor Peeters (1903-86)

Introit: The Lent Prose [text/listen], Plainsong mode 5

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 121, 123 (Tone 2.1)

Magnificat: “Pange Lingua,” Tone 4.5, fauxbourdons, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)

Anthem: Ad te levavi oculos meos / To Thee have I lifted up my eyes [St. Benedict: text/listen], Plainsong mode 8

Postlude: Verses “Pange Lingua” [Claravolo:

listen], Jehan Titelouze (1562/3-1633)

February 21, 2010

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Temptation on the Mountain, Frick Collection, New York, 1308-11.

Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world [NRSV, Luke 4:5].

First Sunday of Lent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: 'Forty Days and Forty Nights,' BWV 745 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Peccantem me quotidie [listen], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)

Mass Setting: Missa brevis No. 5 in F sharp minor [Bell: YouTube], Healey Willan (1880-1968)

Motet: Peccantem me quotidie [text], Claudio Merulo (1533-1604)

Postlude: Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 562 [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Miserere [Foster: listen], William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

Introit: Wilt thou forgive [text], John Schiavone (b. 1947)

Preces and Responses: Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)

Psalm: 36 (Barnby, Battishill)

Canticles: Short Service, Thomas Morley

Anthem: O Lord, in thy wrath [Clare/Tudor/King's: text/listen], Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Postlude: Fantasia in C, [Neswick: listen; Fagius: NML] (info), William Byrd

February 17, 2010

Rembrandt van Rijn, Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house, etching, 1648

if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday [NRSV, Isaiah 58:10].

Ash Wednesday [Comments]

7:30 pm Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

Mass Setting: Mass for five voices [Winchester: YouTube], William Byrd (1540-1623)

Motet: Peccantem me quotidie [text], Claudio Merulo (1533-1604)

Postlude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß? / O World, bewail thy grievous fall [listen], BWV 622, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

February 14, 2010

Raffaello Sanzio, Transfiguration (detail), Pinacoteca, Vatican, 1518-20

And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white [NRSV, Luke 9:20].

Transfiguration Sunday [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire a son Père (Majesty of Christ praying that his Father should glorify him) from L’Ascension [Messiaen himself: listen; Bryam-Wigfield: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Introit: Gloria in excelsis [text], Claude Guodimel (1514-72)

Mass Setting: Service in C, Bryan Kelly (b. 1934)

Motet: O God my King [text], John Amner (1579-1641)

Postlude: Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière (The Son, Word and Light) from Méditations sur le mystère de Sainte Trinité (Meditations on the mystery of the Holy Trinity) [van der Steen: listen; Bonaventure: listen], Olivier Messiaen

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l’essence (The true relation in God is actually identical to the essence) from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity) [van der Steen: listen; Bonaventure: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Introit: Thou Knowest Lord [King's Consort: YouTube], Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Preces and Responses: [St. David's Youth: YouTube], John Reading (1645-92)

Psalm: 119 (Woodward)

Canticles: Service in F, Michael Wise (1648-87)

Anthem: Thy Word is Lantern [King's Consort: YouTube], Henry Purcell

Postlude: Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière (The Son, Word and Light) from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity) [van der Steen: listen; Bonaventure: listen], Olivier Messiaen

February 7, 2010

Hans Memling, Presentation in the Temple, Museo del Prado, Madrid, c. 1470

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 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