December 24-25 and 28, 2014

Jacques Daret, The Nativity, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1434-35

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La Nativité du Seigneur

4:00 pm Family Eucharist with Nativity Pageant

18h30 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

[Choir Notes]

Prélude : Noël sur C'est le bon lever, Guy Morançon (né en 1927)

Ordinaire : Missa O magnum mysterium [Hill : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Introït : Aube nouvelle, Johann Schop (1590-1667)

Motet : O magnum mysterium [texte] [Christophers : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria

Postlude : Toccata sur Il est né, le divin Enfant [Locatelli: YouTube]

Denis Bédard (né en 1950)

Midnight Mass

11:00 pm Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

[Choir Notes]

Prelude: What child is this? [Kripfgans:YouTube], Richard Purvis (1913-94)

Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)

Introit: All my heart this night rejoices [text/Rutter: listen], Johann Ebeling (1620[37]-1666[76])

Motet: Wexford Carol [text] [YouTube], Trad. Irish, arr. John Rutter, (b. 1945)

Motet: What Child is this? [text] [YouTube], Traditional, arr. John Stainer (1840-1901)

Postlude:  From heaven high to earth I come [Lucas: YouTube], Garth Edmundson (1900-71)

Feast of the Nativity of the Lord

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

[Choir Notes]

Prelude: Noël en récit et en taille sur la tierce du positif [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)

Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)

Introit: I saw three ships [text / listen], arr. William Llewellyn (b. 1925)

Motet: Wexford Carol [text] [YouTube], Trad. Irish, arr. John Rutter, (b. 1945)

Postlude:  Noël suisse [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) 

There is no evensong on Christmas afternoon.

First Sunday after Christmas [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers Quartet

Prelude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Setting: Missa Noe, Noe [YouTube], Jacob Arcadelt (1510-68)

Introit: Omnis Mundus Jocundetur [text] [YouTube], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Motet: O magnum Mysterium [text], [Gardiner: musicMe], William Byrd (1543-1623)

Postlude:  In dulci jubilo, BWV 729[Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie : écoutez ; Koopman : YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Ordinaire : Missa Noe, Noe [YouTube],Jacob Arcadelt (1510-68)

Introït : Omnis Mundus Jocundetur [texte] [YouTube], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Motet : O magnum Mysterium [texte], [Gardiner : musicMe], William Byrd (1543-1623)

Postlude : In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 [Kibbie: écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach

There is no evensong this afternoon.

December 21, 2014

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth [NRSV, Luke 1:26]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

Fourth Sunday of Advent [Choir Notes]

Prelude: Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 [Alain: YouTube; Kibbie: listen; Koopman:YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Setting: Missa “Dixit Maria” [Herreweghe:YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612)

Introit: There is no rose of such virtue [text] [YouTube], John Joubert (b.1927)

Motet: Dixit Maria [text] [Colorado: listen; 6 videos: YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler

Postlude:  Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 [Kibbie: listen; Stockmeier: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211 [Foccroulle : musicMe], Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Ordinaire : Missa “Dixit Maria” [Herreweghe : YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612)

Introït : Sauveur, viens déchirer les cieux [texte], Deutsches Catholisches Gesangbuch, 1666

Motet : Dixit Maria [texte] [Colorado: écoutez ; 6 videos : YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler

Postlude : Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 [Kibbie : écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

4:00 pm Ceremony of Lessons and Carols [Click here]

The Cathedral Singers

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