March 25, 2016



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].
Good Friday [Choir Notes]
12 noon Way of the Cross for All Ages
1:00 pm Music and Meditation
The Cathedral Singers
Motets: Drop, drop slow tears [text/listen], Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Stabat Mater [text/listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-94) )


Drop, drop slow tears [text] [Exeter: YouTube], Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)  
Stabat Mater [text], Bernhard Lewkovitch (b. 1927)

Adoramus te, Christe [text] [ Sesquialtera: YouTube], Giovanni Maria Nanino (1543-1607)

O Saviour of the World [text] [King’s:YouTube], Frederick Ouseley (1825-89)
Miserere mei, Domine [text/listen ], Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
The Cathedral Singers
The St. John Passion,  Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)
Improperia / Reproaches / Popule Meus [text/YouTube], John Sanders [1933-2003]
Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei [Connecticut: text/YouTube],Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)

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