July 31, 2011


Eugène Delacroix, Jacob wrestling with the angel (detail), Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1857-61

Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak [NRSV, Genesis 32:24].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: I Larghetto from Organ Concerto 13 [Koopman: YouTube], George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)


Mass Setting: Service in G, Sydney Watson (1903-91)

Introit: Christ, whose glory fills the skies [St. Barnabas: text/YouTube], Keith Bissell (1912-92)

Motet: Come, I pray thee [text], W. H. Anderson (1882-1955)

Postlude: Jacob and the Angel, Alan Ridout (1934-96)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Récit de tierce en taille [listen], Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)

Introit: Lord, we beseech thee [dwsChorale: text/YouTube], Adrian Batten (1591 - 1637)


Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 34, tone 5.3

Magnificat: Tone 8.1, fauxbourdons, Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

Nunc dimittis: Tone 5.1, fauxbourdons, Thomas Morley 

Anthem: Laudate nomen Domini [St. Marien: text/YouTube], Christopher Tye (1505-73)                                                      

Postlude: Offertoire sur les grands jeux [listen], Nicolas de Grigny

July 24, 2011

 

Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob leading Rachel or Leah, Chatsworth Settlement, Chatsworth, 1635

Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel [NRSV, Revelation 21:2]."

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Toccata octava [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat (1645-1704) 

Mass Setting: Short Service, Adrian Batten (1590-1637) 

Introit: Haste thee, O God [St. David's: text/listen], Adrian Batten

Motet: Let my complaint come before thee, O God [text], Adrian Batten 

Postlude: Toccata nona [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Toccata decima [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat (1645-1704)

Introit: In manus tuas [text/listen], John Sheppard (1515-58)

Preces and Responses: William Smith (1603-45) 

Psalm: 8 (Crotch) 

Canticles: Short Service, Thomas Morley (1557-1602) 

Anthem: In pace, in idipsum [text/listen], John Sheppard

Postlude: Toccata undecima [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat

July 17, 2011

 

Domenico Feti, Satan sowing Darnel, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1800-25

The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil [NRSV, Matthew: 13:38b-39a].


Fifth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments] 

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Lo, God is here (Vater unser im himmelreich I and II) [listen], Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) 

Mass Setting: Missa Tertia [St. Clement's: listen], Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)

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

Motet: Sacerdotes Domini [text] [Christ Church Oxford: CML] (info), William Byrd (1543-1623)

Postlude: Toccata quinta [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat (1645-1704)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Toccata sexta [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat (1645-1704)

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

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 103 (tone 8.2)

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

Nunc dimittis: Tone 3.5 

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

Postlude: Toccata septima [Ullmann: YouTube], Georg Muffat

July 10, 2011


Hendrick Terbrugghen, Esau selling his birthright, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, c. 1627

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright [NRSV, Genesis 25:34].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Toccata quarta [Yourovski: YouTube], Georg Muffat (1645-1704)

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

Introit: O Lord  my God, to thee [text], Jacques Arcadelt (1510-68)

Motet: Jesu dulcis memoria [text/listen], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Postlude: Toccata tertia [Ullmann: YouTube], Georg Muffat

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Set 2, Op. 105, No. 1, Angel's Song [Hunter: We7] (info),  Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Introit: O saviour of the world [text], ArthurSomervell (1863-1937)

Preces and Responses: Thomas Ebdon (1738-1811)

Psalm: 122 (Cook)

Canticles: Service in A [St. Martin's:We7] (info), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802)

Anthem: Pray that Jerusalem may have peace [King's: text/Grooveshark], Charles Villiers Stanford

Postlude: Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Set 2, Op. 105, No. 4, On a theme of Gibbons [Hunter: We7] (info),  Charles Villiers Stanford
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