April 4-8, 2012

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 4: Wednesday of Holy Week
7:30 pm Choral Tenebrae

The Cathedral Singers

Psalms: Plainsong

Responsory: Ecce, quomodo moritur [text/YouTube], Jacob Händl (1550-91)

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

Responsory: O vos omnes [text/listen] Carlo Gesualdo
 (1566-1613)

Benedictus: [text/listen], Carlo Gesualdo

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 5: Maundy Thursday [Comments]

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

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:  “Pange Lingua,” Flor Peeters (1903-86)

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

Mass Setting: Missa Primi sexti toni [Trinity: YouTube], Giovanni Croce (1557-1607)

Motet: O Sacrum convivium [text/YouTube], Giovanni Croce

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]

12:00 noon: Children's Way of the Cross

1:00 pm: Music and Meditation
The Cathedral Singers 

Motets: Drop, drop slow tears [text/listen], Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

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

Drop, drop slow tears [text/listen], Orlando Gibbons

Ecce, quomodo moritur [text/YouTube], Jacob Händl (1550-91)

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

O vos omnes [text/listen] Carlo Gesualdo
 (1566-1613)


Salvator Mundi [text/listen], Thomas Tallis [1505-85]

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 (1548-1611)

Reproaches [text/YouTube], John Sanders [1933-2003]

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 he said to them, "Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him [NRSV, Luke Mark 16:6].

April 7: Holy Saturday

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 14^th cent.

Perspice Christicola [text/listen], Anon. English 14^th 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 8: Easter Sunday [Comments]

10:00 am Procession and Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs and Brass Ensemble

Introit: Gloria from Missa Salve Regina [BNQ; BM]  (info), Jean Langlais (1907-91)

Mass Setting: Missa Salve Regina [BNQ; BM]  (info), Jean Langlais

Motet: Vidi aquam [text] [El Calcat: YouTube], Plainsong

Communion motets: 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: Prélude et Toccata sur «Victimae Paschali Laudes» [Brandeis: YouTube], Denis Bédard (b. 1950)

4:00 pm Choral Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

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

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

Preces and Responses: Thomas Tunnard (b. 1918)

Psalm: 114, 150 (Tonus Peregrinus, Stanford)

Magnificat: Service in D [King's: YouTube],  George Dyson (1883-1964)

Nunc dimittis: Service in D [King's; YouTube], George Dyson 

Anthem: Five Mystical Songs (Dion Mazerolle, baritone) [text/King's: listen], RalphVaughan Williams (1872-1958)

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