March 27, 2011

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Samaritan woman at the well, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1308-11

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink  [NRSV, Revelation 21:2]."

Third Sunday in Lent [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir / In deep distress I cry to thee, BWV 687 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Thou knowest Lord [Berkeley: text/YouTube], Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Mass Setting: Missa brevis in D, Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)

Motet: O Lord, my God, to thee [text], Jacques Arcadelt (1507-68)

Postlude: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir / In deep distress I cry to thee, BWV 686 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam / Christ did our Lord to Jordan come, BWV 685 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Oculi omnium [text] [Chavagnes: YouTube]  Charles Wood (1866-1926)

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 137, 138 (Tones 2.1, 3.2)

Magnificat: Secundi toni, Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94)

Nunc dimittis: Tone 6

Anthem: Super flumina Babylonis [text] [Neskovic: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus
 
Postlude: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam / Christ did our Lord to Jordan come, BWV 684 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach

March 20, 2011


Gustave Doré, Abraham journeying to Canaan,  Doré English Bible, 1866

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you [NRSV, Genesis 12:1]."

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:  Wir glauben all an einen Gott (fughetta) / We all believe in one true God, BWV 681 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: O love of whom is truth and light [text], Finn Viderø (1906-87)

Mass Setting: Messa a quattro voci, Antonio Lotti (c.1667-1740)

Motet: They that are down [text], John Dowland (1563-1626)

Postlude: Wir glauben all an einen Gott / We all believe in one true God, BWV 680 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:  Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit / Kyrie, God Father in heaven above, BWV 669 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Hide not thou thy face [text] [Westminster Abbey: YouTube] Richard Farrant (1530-80)

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 130, 131, 134 (Tones 4.6, 1.1)

Magnificat: Octavi Toni [text/listen],  Luca Marenzio (c.1553-99)

Nunc dimittis: Tone 3.1

Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercy sake [Berkeley: text/YouTube], Richard Farrant

Postlude: Christe, aller Welt Trost / Christ, all the world's solace, BWV 670 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach

March 13, 2011

William Blake, Christ ministered to by angels, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1816-20

Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him [NRSV, Matthew 4:11].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Partita “Forty days and forty nights” BWV 745 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Call to Rembrance [text] [Redeemer:YouTube], Richard Farrant (1530-1580)

Mass Setting:  Missa O lux Beata Trinitas, Richard Kidd (b. 1954)

Motet:  Manus tuae Domine [text] [Viente del Oeste: YouTube]  Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)

Postlude: Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist, BWV 671 [Kibbie: listen]  [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:  Dies sind die heiligen zehen Gebot / These are the holy ten commands (fughetta), BWV 679 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Never weather-beaten sail  [Laetitia Nova: text/YouTube], Charles Wood (1866-1926)

Preces and Responses: Douglas Mason (b. 1973)

Psalm: 32 (Jones)

Canticles: St. Paul's Service [listen], Herbert Howells(1892-1983) 

Anthem: My soul, there is a country [Guildford: text/YouTube, C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)

Postlude:  Dies sind die heiligen zehen Gebot / These are the holy ten commands, BWV 678 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach

March 9, 2011

 
El Greco, St. Francis and Brother Leo Meditating on Death, National Gallery, of Canada, Ottawa, 1600-02

Remember, you are dust and unto dust you shall return [Ash Wednesday liturgy].

7:30 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers 

Mass Setting: Missa brevis, Op. 84 [Texas:NML] (info), Vincent Persichetti (1915-87)

Psalm: Miserere mei Deus (ps. 51) [text/listen], Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)

Motet: Wilt Thou forgive [text], John Schiavone (b. 1947)

Postlude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß? / O world, confess your grievous sin, BWV 622 [Kibbie: listen],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

March 6, 2011


Duccio di Buoninsegna, Transfiguration, National Gallery, London, 1308-11

Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him   [NRSV, Matthew 17:3].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers Octet

Prelude: La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l’essence from Les Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, No. III [Messiaen: listen] Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Introit: Euge Caeli [Chapelle du Roi: text/NML] (info), Thomas Tallis (1505-85)

Mass Setting: Missa Vinum Bonum [listen], Orlande de Lassus (1532-94) 

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

Postlude: Le Fils, resplendissement de la gloire du Père from Les Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, No. VI [Messiaen: listen], Olivier Messiaen

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers Octet

Prelude: Voluntary No.2 in f, Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
 
Introit: Let my prayer come up [text] [Vox Antiqua: YouTube], Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Preces and Responses: John Reading (1645-92)

Psalm: 122, Henry Purcell

Canticles: Service in C, Maurice Greene

Anthem: Thy word is a lantern [King's Consort: text/YouTube], Henry Purcell

Postlude: Voluntary No. 11 in b [Cooper: YouTube], Maurice Greene
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