February 12, 2017

L'Oasis Musicale: Concerts at the Cathedral and at St George's

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Yeshua Ben Sirach teaching wisdom, from "Die Bibel in Bildern," 1860
If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and to act faithfully is a matter of your own choice [NRSV, Sirach 15:15]
The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: “Jesu, the very thought of thee” [YouTube], Gordon Slater (1896-1979)
Setting: Missa Lauda Sion [BNQ; BM] (info), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)


Introit: Adoramus te [text] [YouTube] Lodovico da Viadana (1560-1627)   
Motet: O sacrum convivium [text] [YouTube], Lodovico da Viadana
Postlude: Paean [YouTube], Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : Praeludium in E, BWV 854 [YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)  
Ordinaire : Missa Lauda Sion [BNQ ; BM] (info), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)
Introït : Adoramus te [texte] [YouTube] Lodovico da Viadana (1560-1627)   
Motet : O sacrum convivium [texte] [YouTube], Lodovico da Viadana
Postlude : Fuga in E, BWV 854 [YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach
4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)
Prelude: Preludio “Sine Nomine” [YouTube], Herbert Howells (1892-1983)


Introit: O gladsome light [YouTube], Louis Bourgeois (1510-61)
Responses: Ben Parry (b. 1965)  
Psalm: 119, pts 5,6; Richards, Goss


Canticles: Service in G, Ben Parry


Anthem: Round me falls the night [text] [YouTube], Adam Drese (1620-1701)

Postlude:  Master Tallis’s Testament [YouTube], Herbert Howells