April 20-24, 2011

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Pact with Judas, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What will you give me if I betray him to you?’ They paid him thirty pieces of silver [NRSV, Mathew 26:14-15].

April 20: Wednesday of Holy Week
7:30 pm Choral Tenebrae

The Cathedral Singers

Psalms: Plainsong

Responsory:
In Monte Oliveti [text/listen], Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535/36-92)

Responsory:
Improperium [text/listen], Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94)

Responsory:
O vos omnes [info/text] Jachet de Mantua (1483 - c.1559)

Benedictus: [King's Singers: text/listen]
, Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)



Duccio di Buoninsegna, Last Supper, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

When the Lord Jesus had given thanks, he broke the bread and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me [NRSV, 1 Corinthinians 11:24]."

April 21:
Maundy Thursday [Comments]

7:30 pm Choral Eucharist: Liturgy of the Lord's Supper

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: 
Le Banquet céleste [Alain: YouTube], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)


Introit: A New Commandment [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Mass Setting: Missa Pange Lingua, Patrick Wedd, (b. 1948)



Motet: Pange Lingua [text/listen] Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)





Duccio di Buoninsegna, Crucifixion, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

When Jesus had received the wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. [NRSV, John 19:30].

April 22: Good Friday
[Comments]

12 noon Children's Way of the Cross

1:00 pm Music and Meditation

The Cathedral Singers 

Motets: Timor et Tremor [text/listen], Orlande de Lassus (1532-94) 

Crucifixus [text/listen], Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) 

We adore you, O Christ [text/listen], Richard Proulx (1937-2010) 

Christus factus est [text/listen], Anton Bruckner (1824-96) 

Stabat Mater [text/listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-94) 

Christus factus est [text/listen], Felice Anerio (1560-1614)

Miserere mei, Domine [text/listen ], Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) 

2:00 pm The Liturgy of Good Friday
The Cathedral Singers


The St John Passion [Renaissance Singers:
YouTube
],
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1532-1594)

Reproaches [text/listen]
, Tomás Luis de Victoria

Motet: Agnus Dei [Connecticut: text/YouTube], Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)







Duccio di Buoninsegna, Three Marys at the Tomb, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified [NRSV, Luke Matthew 28:5].

April 23:
Holy Saturday [Comments]

7:30 pm The Great Vigil of Easter, with the Lighting of the New Fire, the Blessing of the Paschal Candle and the First Eucharist of Easter
The Cathedral Singers


Vigil: Exultet [
text] [Fr. Tim Hepburn: listen]

Responsories and Psalms: Plainsong



Go down Moses [text/listen], Traditional

Sanctus: Anonymous Worcester, 14th cent.
 
Motets:
Alle-psallite cum-luya  [text/listen], Anon. English 14th cent.

Perspice Christicola [text/listen], Anon. English 14th cent.


Postlude:
Fugue on O filii et filiae [Kuhlmann:listen], Jean Langlais (1907-91)
 


Duccio di Buoninsegna, Appearance to Mary Magdalene, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God [NRSV,John 20:17].'"

April 24: Easter Sunday[Comments]

10:00 am Procession and Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Choirs and Brass Ensemble

Mass Setting: Missa Octava, Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)


Jubilate in C [text/listen], Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
 

Surrexit Christus Hodie [Arcadelt: text/YouTube], Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)


Now the Green Blade Rises [CounTéBas: text/YouTube ], arr. Martin Shaw (1875-1958)

This Joyful Eastertide [Cambridge Singers: text/listen], arr. Charles Wood (1866-1926)


Postlude:
Lied to the Sun, Flor Peeters
(1903-86)

4:00 pm Choral Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Sarabande for the Morning of Easter [Webster: listen], Herbert Howells (1892-1983) 

Introit: Jubilate in C [text/listen], Benjamin Britten (1913-76)

Preces and Responses: Paul Halley (b. 1952)

Psalm: 114, 150 (Tonus Peregrinus, Stanford)

Canticles: Chichester Service [Rochester: YouTube], William Walton (1902-83)


Anthem:
Rejoice in the Lamb [text/listen Benjamin Britten

Postlude:
La Résurrection du Christ
from Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement [Latry:
YouTube], Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

April 17, 2011


Duccio di Buoninsegna, Entry into Jerusalem, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven [NRSV, Matthew 21:9]!"


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Anthem: Hosianna dem Sohne Davids [text], Bartholomäus Gesius (1560-1613)
 
 
Mass Setting: Missa passionis Christi, Arthur Wills (b. 1926)

Motet:
Christus factus est [Westminster: text/YouTube], Felice Anerio (1560-1614)

Postlude
: The Royal Banners, Healey Willan (1880-1968)


4:00 PM Evensong

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:
Vexilla regis, Flor Peeters (1903-1986)

Introit:
Improperium [text/listen], Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94)

Preces and Responses:
Plainsong

Magnificat: Tone 8.1 Fauxbourdons,
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602)

Nunc dimittis:
Tone 5.1 Fauxbourdons, Thomas Morley

Anthem: Solus ad victimam [text/listen], Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) 

Postlude: Vexilla regis, Healey Willan (1880-1968)

April 10, 2011


Juan de Flandes, Raising of Lazarus, Museo del Prado, Madrid, c. 1500

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out[NRSV, Revelation 21:2]!"


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Men's Voices

Prelude:
Christe, aller Welt Trost / Christ, all the world's comfort, BWV 670 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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

Mass Setting: Missa XVII Adventus et Quadragesimae  [YouTube], Plainsong

Motet:Saepe expugnaverunt me [text/download], Tone 8

Postlude: Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552, 2 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
Men's Voices

Prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich / Our Father in heaven, BWV 683 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit:
Iudica me Deus [St. Benedict's: text/download], Tone 4

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm:
129, 130, (Tones 4.4, 4.6)

Magnificat:
Tone 4.5, organ verses [listen] by Michel Corrette (1707-95) 

Nunc dimittis: Tone 3.5

Anthem:
Saepe expugnaverunt me [text/download], Tone 8

Postlude:
Vater unser im Himmelreich / Our Father in heaven, BWV 682 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach

April 3, 2011

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Healing the blind man, National Gallery, London, 1308-11

When Jesus had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes [NRSV, John 9:6].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Trebles and Women's voices

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: Jesu rex admirabilis [text/listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)

Mass Setting: Missa Brevis [Rihimaki: NML] (info), Nancy Telfer (b. 1950)

Motet: Tua Jesu dilectio [text], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)

Postlude: Prelude in E-Flat Major, BWV 552-1 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
Women's Voices

Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (fuga) / Jesus Christ our Saviour (fugue), BWV 689 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit:
In pace in idipsum [text], Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)

Preces and Responses: 
Godfrey Ridout (1918-84)

Psalm: 75 (tone 6)

Canticles: Service in C, Godfrey Ridout

Anthem:
Memento salutis auctor [text/listen], William Byrd (1543-1623)


Postlude:
Jesus Christus, unser Heiland /
Jesus Christ our Saviour, BWV 688 [Kibbie: listen] [Clavier-Übung III],  Johann Sebastian Bach