March 22, 2015


Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jeremiah (detail), Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1508-12

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people [NRSV, Jeremiah 31:33].


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Women's voices

Prelude: Eclogue from Six Short Pieces for Organ,  Peter Racine Fricker (1920-90)
Setting: Missa XVII Adventus et Quadragesimae  [YouTube], Plainsong

Introit: Adoramus te, Christe [text] [Dresdner: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)
Motet: Sederunt in Terra [text], Elzéar Genet (1470-1548)
Postlude: Declamation from Six Short Pieces for Organ,  Peter Racine Fricker

12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : Eclogue de Six Short Pieces for Organ,  Peter Racine Fricker (1920-90)

Ordinaire : Missa XVII Adventus et Quadragesimae  [YouTube], Plain-chant

Introït : Adoramus te, Christe [texte] [Dresdner : YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)

Motet : Sederunt in Terra [texte], Elzéar Genet (1470-1548)

Postlude : Declamation de Six Short Pieces for Organ,  Peter Racine Fricker


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

Prelude: Passion Chorale « Herzlich tut mich
verlangen » Op. 122, No. 9 and 10 [Lagacé:YouTube], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)

Introit: In pace, in idipsum [text] [L’Echelle: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 3,4  Tones 8.2, 2.1

Magnificat: Christoph Dalitz (b. 1967)

Nunc dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3.1

Anthem: Sederunt in Terra [text], Elzéar Genet (1470-1548)

Postlude:  Fuge in as-moll [Punt: YouTube], Johannes Brahms