October 30, 2011

Homage to the Lamb, Bamberg Apocalypse, Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg, c. 1000

               

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. [NRSV, Revelation 7:9].


Feast of All Saints

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Subtilité des corps glorieux from Les Corps glorieux [Messiaen himself: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)


Mass Setting: Missa Omnes Sancti, Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)


Introit: O quam gloriosum [text], Luca Marenzio (1560-99)                                                         


Motet: O quam gloriosum [text] [YouTube], Jacob Vaet (1529-67)


Postlude: Joie et clarté des corps glorieux from Les Corps glorieux [Messiaen himself: listen],Olivier Messiaen

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Subtilité des corps glorieux from Les Corps glorieux [Messiaen himself: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)


Introit: Hail, gladdening light [King's: text/YouTube], Charles Wood (1866-1926)


Preces and Responses: Humphrey Clucas (b. 1941)


Psalm:  149 (Woodward)


Magnificat: Service in G [St John's: YouTube],  Charles Villiers Stanford (1952-1924)


Nunc Dimittis: Service in G [St John's: YouTube],  Charles Villiers Stanford


Anthem: Hear my prayer [Eton: text/YouTube], Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)


Postlude: Force et agilité des corps glorieux from Les Corps glorieux [Messiaen himself: listen], Olivier Messiaen

October 23, 2011

James Tissot, The Pharisees Question Jesus, Brooklyn Museum, 1884-96

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him [NRSV, Matt 22:34-5].



Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Wir glauben all [Dirksen: NML] (info), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)


Mass Setting: Missa Sine Nomine [listen] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)


Introit: Alma Redemptoris Mater [text/Gardiner: musicMe] (info)  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 


Motet: Sicut Cervus [text/listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 


Postlude: Dorian Toccata [Antinori: YouTube], Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Toccata noni toni [Woolley: NML] (info), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Introit: Sleepers wake [text], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Preces and Responses: Festal, Thomas Tallis (1505-85)

Psalm: 36 (Barnby, Battishill)

Canticles: Short Service [Dixon: NML] (info), Thomas Tallis

Anthem: Jesu, joy of our desiring [Messiah: text/CML] (info), Johann Sebastian Bach

Postlude: Psalm 36 [Suzuki: NML] (info), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

October 16, 2011

Gérard Jollain, Moses asks to see the glory of God, 1670

And while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by [NRSV, Exodus 33:22].



Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Elevazione, Francesco Feroci (1673-1750)


Mass Setting: Messa a 4, Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570-1622)


Introit: Regina caeli [text/listen], Francesco Soriano (1549-1621)


Motet: O sacrum convivium [text] [Gemmani: YouTube], Giovanni Croce (1557-1607)


Postlude: Toccata settima [Gheller: YouTube], Michelangelo Rossi (1601-56)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Voluntary in C [Klemme: listen], John Barrett (1674-1735)

Introit: Let my complaint come before Thee [text], Adrian Batten (1591-1637)

Preces and Responses: William Smith (1603-45)

Psalm: 125, 126 (Huntley, Barnard)

Canticles: Short Service, John Blow (1649-1708)

Anthem: When the Lord turned again [St. David's: text/listen], Adrian Batten

Postlude: Prelude and Fugue in c, John Travers (1703-58)

October 9, 2011

Emile Bernard, Harvesters at the Seashore, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1891

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills [Deut. 8:7].

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Harvest Thanksgiving [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude:  Nun danket all Gott, BWV 657 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)


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


Introit: Thou visitest the earth [New College: text/YouTube], Maurice Greene (1695-1755)


Motet: A Carol of Beauty [text], Arthur Warrel (1883-1939)


Postlude: Praeludium in Es-dur, BWV 552,1 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach                        


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie, BWV 672 [Kibbie: listen], 673 [listen], 674 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)


Introit: Pray that Jerusalem [Cleobury: text/listen], Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)


Preces and Responses:  Martin Neary (b. 1940)


Psalm: 148 (Atkins)


Canticles: Service in F, Derek Holman (b. 1931)


Anthem:  Fear not, O land [text], William Harris (1883-1973)


Postlude:  Fuga in Es-dur, BWV 552,2 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach                                                   

October 2, 2011

Gérard Jollain, The Parable of the Tenants, 1670

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them [NRSV, Revelation 21:45].

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers Octet


Prelude: Sehr langsam from Organ Sonata 1 [Hurford: YouTube], Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

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

Introit: Laetentur caeli [text] [Mosteiro Grijo: YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler

Motet:  Pater noster [text], Hans Leo Hassler

Postlude: Fantasy and Fugue “Go to the world,” Searle Wright (1918-2004)

4:00 pm Evensong

The Cathedral Singers Octet


Prelude: Langsam (Very slow) from Organ Sonata 3 [Hurford: YouTube], Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Introit: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree [text] [King's: YouTube], Elizabeth Poston (1905-87)

Preces and Responses: Peter Aston (b. 1938)

Psalm: 142 (Timms)

Canticles: St. Andrew's Service, Peter Aston

Anthem: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree [text], Philip Ledger (b. 1937)

Postlude: Fuge, Mässig bewegt from Organ Sonata 2 [Hurford: YouTube], Paul Hindemith