May 28, 2017

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



"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven [NRSV, Acts 1:11].”

The Seventh Sunday of Easter [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 655 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)  
Setting: Missa Brevis [YouTube], Andrea Gabrieli (1510-86)

Introit: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem [text] [YouTube], Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
Motet:  O pray for the peace of Jerusalem [text/YouTube], John Blow [1649-1708]
Postlude: Fugue in D, BWV 532 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach

12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude :  Improvisation, Nicholas Capozzoli
  
Ordinaire :  Missa Brevis [YouTube], Andrea Gabrieli (1510-86)

Introït : O Rex gloriae [texte] [YouTube], Luca Marenzio (1553?-99)

Motet : Veni Creator Spiritus [texte], [musicMe], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Postlude : Galliarda [YouTube], Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663)

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

Prelude: Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 709, [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem [text] [YouTube], Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Preces: William Smith (1603-45)

Psalm: 122, Robert Cooke

Canticles: Short Service,  John Blow [1649-1708]

Anthem: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem [text/YouTube], John Blow
Postlude: Praeludium in D, BWV 532 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach