February 24, 2013

 

The Lord brought Abram outside and said, "Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be [NRSV, Revelation 21:2]."

2nd Sunday of Lent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Adagio in g, from Sonata of Three Parts in g minor, No. 1, Z. 790 [YouTube], Henry Purcell (1659-95)

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

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

Motet: Super flumina Babylonis [text] [Neskovic: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94) 

Postlude: Chaconne in F [Bleicher: YouTube], Henry Purcell


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)

Prelude: Vater unser [YouTube], Johann Pachelbel, (1653-1706) 

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

Preces and Responses: Ian Crabbe (b. 1953) 

Psalm: 25 (Cooke) 

Magnificat: Short Service [Trinity: YouTube], Richard Farrant

Nunc dimittis:  Short Service [Trinity: YouTube], Richard Farrant 

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

Postlude: Ciacona in f [Jacob: musicMe], Johann Pachelbel

February 17, 2013

Sandro Botticelli, Three Temptations of Christ (detail), Cappella Sistina, Vatican, 1481

Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here [NRSV, Luke 4:9]."

1st Sunday of Lent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

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

Mass Setting: Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, [Hickox: BNQ; BM](info), Edmund Rubbra (1901-86)

Introit: Peccantem me quotidie [text / listen], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)

Motet: O bone Jesu  [text], Louis Halsey (b. 1929)

Postlude: Ciacona in e, BuxWV 160 [Oster: YouTube],  Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)

Prelude: Voluntary in C [Burchell: CML] (info), Thomas Tomkins (1572-1666)

Introit: I will was my hands [text], William Smith (1603-45)
 
Preces: [YouTube] William Smith

Responses: [YouTube] William Smith
    
Psalm: Psaume 130, Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

Canticles: Short Service, Thomas Morley

Anthem: Laboravi in gemitu meo [text/listen], Thomas Morley

Postlude: Ground in d [Visser: YouTube], Thomas Tomkins

February 13, 2013

 Julian Falat, Ash Wednesday

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

Ash Wednesday [Comments]

7:30 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Mass Setting: Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, [Hickox: BNQ; BM](info), Edmund Rubbra (1901-86)

Imposition of Ashes: Miserere [text / listen], Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)

Motet: Peccantem me quotidie [text / listen], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)

Postlude: O Mensch, bewein’, BWV 622 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

February 10, 2013

 Transfiguration, Icon of the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, 12th cent.

 
Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray [NRSV, Luke 9:18].

Transfiguration Sunday [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Alléluias sereins d'une âme que désire le ciel /  Serene Alleluias from a Soul Longing for Heaven from L'Ascension [Latry: YouTube],  
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Mass Setting: Missa Brevis [Voci del Tesoro:YouTube], Andrea Gabrieli (1510-86)

Introit: Alleluia, John Taverner (1480-1554)

Motet: Alleluia, candor est lucis [text] [St. Benedict: listen], Plainsong, Tone 7

Postlude: Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol), [Marlow: musicMe], Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)

Prelude: Eclogue, Desmond Ratcliffe (1917-2001) 

Introit: Now the God of peace [text] Gerald Knight (1908-79) 

Preces and Responses: Harrison Oxley (1933-2009) 

Psalm: 141 (Frith)

Canticles: Service in C, C. Hylton Stewart (1884-1932) 

Anthem: O Gladsome Light [text], Harrison Oxley 

Postlude: Allegro con brio in D, Desmond Ratcliffe

February 3, 2013

 Rembrandt van Rijn, Simeon and Anna recognize the Lord, Hamburger Kunsthalle, c.1627

At that moment Anna came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem [NRSV, Revelation 21:2].


Candlemas: The Presentation of the Lord in the Temple [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Mass Setting: Mass for Five Voices [listen], William Byrd (1540-1623)

Introit: Senex puerum portabat [text] [Lancelot: YouTube], William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

Motet: Hodie beata virgo [text] [Rose: YouTube], William Byrd (1540-1623) 

Postlude: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BuxWV 76 [Foccroulle: musicMe], Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)


Prelude: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 616 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Prayer of the Venerable Bede [text] [Chicago: BNQ; BM] (info), Richard Proulx (b. 1937)

Preces and Responses: Paul Spicer (b. 1952)                   

Psalm: 84 (Noble)

Canticles: Double Choir in B-flat, C. S.Lang (1891-1971)

Anthem: Christus est stella [text] [Vasari Singers: BNQ, BM] (info), Will Todd (b. 1970)

Postlude: Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, BWV 617 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach