May 7, 2017

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

Christ the Good Shepherd, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, 1st-3rd cent.
I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture [NRSV, John 10:9].


4th Sunday of Easter
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Brother James’ Air [YouTube], Searle Wright (1918-2004)  
Setting: Mass of the Reconciliation, Tony Hewitt-Jones (1926-89)

Introit: Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, SWV 120 [text] [YouTube], Heinrich Schütz (1582-1672)
Motet: Brother James’ Air [text] [YouTube], arr. Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)
Postlude: Festal Flourish [YouTube], Gordon Jacob  
12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 626, [écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ordinaire :  Missa Inter Vestibulum, Francisco Guerrero (1528-99)
Introït :  Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, SWV 120 [texte] [YouTube], Heinrich Schütz (1582-1672)

Motet : L’Éternel seul est mon Berger, William Gardiner (1770-1853)
Postlude :  Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag, BWV 629 [écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)
Prelude: Psalm 23, Percy Whitlock (1903-46)

Introit: The Easter Song of Praise [text] [YouTube], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Preces: Richard Shephard
Psalm: 23, John Goss
Canticles: Service in C [YouTube], Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1912)

Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem [text] [YouTube],  Charles Villiers Stanford

Postlude:  Allegro in d from Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Set 2, Opus 105, No. 6 [YouTube], Charles Villiers Stanford