February 27, 2011

Attributed to Giotto di Bondone, Sermon to the Birds, Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, 1297-99

"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they [NRSV, Mathew 6:26]?"

Eighth Sunday after Epiphany [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Pastorale [Biggs: listen], Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)  

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

Mass Setting: English Mass, Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Motet: Ave verum corpus [text] [Tallis: YouTube], William Byrd (1543-1623) 

Postlude: Sortie in E, Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr, BWV 663 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: O nata lux [Tallis: text/YouTube], Thomas Tallis (1505-85)
 

Preces and Responses: John Holmes (d. 1629)
 

Psalm:  81 (Ley, Wesley)

Canticles: Service for Five Voices, William Byrd (1543-1623)

Anthem: Sing joyfully [text] [Musica Sacra: YouTube], William Byrd

Postlude: Toccata in b [Alain: YouTube], Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

February 20, 2011

Sermon on the Mount, Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, 6th cent.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect [NRSV, Matthew 5:48].

Seventh Sunday after Epiphany [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: The peace may be exchanged from Rubrics [Keiser: listen], Dan Locklair (b. 1949)

Introit: If ye love me [text/listen], Thomas Tallis (1505-85)

Mass Setting:  Mass of St. Thomas, Robert Fleming (1921-76)

Motet:  Jesu, the very thought of thee [text], Edward Bairstow (1974-1946)

Postlude:  The people respond: Amen! from Rubrics [Keiser: listen], Dan Locklair

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Prière from Deux pièces, op. 108, no.2, Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)

Introit: O gladsome light, [text] [Rutter: NML], (info), Louis Bourgeois (1510-61)

Preces and Responses:  Martin Neary (b. 1940)

Psalm: 125, 126 (Huntley, Barnard)

Canticles: Service in D, Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)

Anthem: Round me falls the night [text], Adam Drese (1620-1701)

Postlude:  Scherzetto from Deux pièces, op. 108, no.1 [Cleveland: listen], Joseph Jongen

February 13, 2011

Luca Signorelli, Moses Speaking to Israel (detail), Cappella Sistina, Vatican, 1481-82

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live [NRSV, Deuteronomy 30:19].

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:: “Jesu, the very thought,” Gordon Slater (1896-1979)

Introit: Benedicam Dominum [text], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Mass Setting: Missa “O Westron Wynde”, Healey Willan (1880-1968)

Motet: Jesu dulcis memoria [text/listen], Tomás Luis de Victoria

Postlude: Voluntary in D, George Dyson (1883-1964)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Voluntary in F, op. 7, no. 6 [Tuinema: YouTube], John Stanley (1712-86)

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

Preces and Responses: [Trinity: Preces; Responses], Richard Ayleward (1626-69) 

Canticles: Short Service, Richard Ayleward

Anthem: In pace, in idipsum dormiam [text] [Maryland: YouTube], John Sheppard

Postlude: Voluntary in a, op. 7, no. 8 [YouTube], John Stanley

February 6, 2011

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

When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, the parents of Jesus brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord [NRSV, Luke 2:22a].

The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany: Candlemas [Comments]
10:00 am Procession and Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Introit: Senex puerum portabat [text] [Savall: listen],  Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Mass Setting: Brief Mass, Dan Locklair (b. 1949)

Motet: Hodie Beata Virgo [text] [King's: listen], William Byrd (1543-1625)

Postlude: Te Deum [van Dommele; listen], Jean Langlais (1907-91)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Nunc Dimittis, BWV 616 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: When to the temple Mary went [text] [St. Paul's: YouTube],  Johannes Eccard (1553-1611)

Preces and Responses: Humphrey Clucas (b. 1941)

Psalm: 84 Thalben-Ball

Canticles: Service in C, George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987)

Anthem: Simeon's Song, Walter Deller

Postlude: Nunc Dimittis, BWV 617 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach