February 28, 2016

Alexet Pismenny, The Parable of the Fruitless Fig Tree
The gardener replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.  If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down [NRSV, Luke 13:8-9]."
3rd Sunday of Lent [Choir Notes]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Andante [Kibbie: listen], from Trio Sonata No. 4, BWV 528, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Setting: Missa Caça [St. Clement: listen], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)
Introit: Adoramus te, Christe [text] [Cantus:YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)
Motet: Super flumina Babylonis [text] [YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94)
Postlude:  Fantasia in g, BWV 542/1 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach
12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : Kyrie eleison de La Messa della Madonna [YouTube], Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Ordinaire : Missa Caça [St. Clement : écoutez], Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53)


Introït : Adoramus te, Christe [texte] [Cantus : YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)
Motet : Sicut Cervus [texte/écoutez], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


Postlude : Christe eleison de La Messa della Madonna [YouTube], Girolamo Frescobaldi


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)
Prelude: The Perpetual Round [Wolfe: BNQ] (info), Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
Introit: Almighty and everlasting God (text & listen), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Preces: [YouTube] William Smith (1603-45)
Responses: [YouTube] William Smith
Psalm: 130, George Garrett
Magnificat: Short Service [Merbecke: YouTube], Orlando Gibbons
Nunc dimittis: Short Service [Merbecke: YouTube], Orlando Gibbons
Anthem: Nolo mortem peccatoris [text / 11 versions], Thomas Morley (1577-1602)

Postlude:  Ground [Klapprott: YouTube], Thomas Tomkins

February 21, 2016

Gérard Jollain, Christ lamenting Jerusalem, engraving, c. 1670
How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing [NRSV, Luke 13:34b]!
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Sehr langsam from Organ Sonata 1 [Hurford: musicMe], Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Setting: Missa Silvestris, Elizabeth Ekholm (b. 1954)
Introit: Blessed are the pure in heart [Redeemer: text/YouTube],
H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Motet: Super flumina Babylonis [text] [YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94)
Postlude: Phantasie from Sonata No. 1 [Biggs: YouTube], Paul Hindemith


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : Miserere 1 [MB 66] [midi MB 66,67 : listen], William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
Ordinaire : Missa Brevis, Claudio Casciolini (1697-1760)


Introït : Benedicite, gentes [texte], Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Motet : Domine in auxilium [texte], Orlande de Lassus
Postlude : Miserere 2 [MB 67] [MB 67 : MusicMe] [midi MB 66,67 : listen], William Byrd
4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)
Prelude: Preludio "Sine nomine" from Six Pieces for Organ [Barber: YouTube],  Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Introit: The Secret of Christ [text] [Hyde Park: YouTube], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)
Preces and Responses: Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
Psalm: 39, James Turle
Magnificat: Service in G [Richford: YouTube], Herbert Sumsion
Nunc dimittis: Service in G [Rhoden Girls: YouTube], Herbert Sumsion


Anthem: O Lord, the maker of all thing [text] [Canzona: YouTube], John Joubert (b. 1927)

Postlude:  Psalm Prelude, Set 2, No. 2: The meek-spirited shall inherit the earth, Herbert Howells
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