November 24, 2013

Giotto di Bondone, Crucifix, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, 1310-17

There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews [NRSV, Luke 23:38]."

The Reign of Christ [Comments][Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Majesté du Christ from L’Ascension [Trotter: musicMe], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)
 
Setting: Missa brevis, Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) 

Introit: In nomine Jesu [text] [Varsmusica: YouTube], Jacob Handl (1550-91)
 
Motet: Pange Lingua [text/listen] Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
 
Postlude: Festival Fanfare [Kane: YouTube] Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)

12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale 

Prélude : Jesu meine Freude [Kibbie : écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Ordinaire : Missa brevis, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94) 

Introït : Jesu, rex admirabilis [texte] [Gardiner : YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 

Motet : Tu solus qui facis mirabilia [texte] [Hilliard : BNQ ; BM] (info), Josquin des Prés (1450-1521) 

Postlude : Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn (Il est vivant), BWV 630 [Kibbie : écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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

Prelude: Ode [Keene: listen], Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
 
Introit: In nomine Jesu [text] [Varsmusica: YouTube], Jacob Handl (1550-91)

Preces and Responses: Harrison Oxley (1933-2009)

Psalm: 145 (Cooper,Lawes)
 
Magnificat: Second Service [listen] Kenneth Leighton

Nunc dimittis: Second Service [listen], Kenneth Leighton

Anthem: Let all the world in every corner sing [text] [St. Paul's: YouTube], Kenneth Leighton 

Postlude: Fanfare [Kane: YouTube] Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)

November 17, 2013

Arch of Titus (detail - copy), Rome, 81 C.E.

"As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down [NRSV, Luke 21:6]." 

26th Sunday after Pentecost [Comments] [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Vater unser [YouTube], Johann Pachelbel, (1653-1706) 
 
Setting: Missa de Beata Virgine, Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628) 

Introit: Lauda anima mea Dominum [text], Gregor Aichinger
 
Motet: Regina caeli [Hauts: text/YouTube], Gregor Aichinger
 
Postlude: Toccata and Fugue in g [Payne: BNQ; BM] (info), Johann Pachelbel


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale


Prélude : Vater unser [YouTube], Johann Pachelbel, (1653-1706)

Ordinaire : Missa de Beata Virgine, Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628)
 
Introït : Lauda anima mea Dominum [texte], Gregor Aichinger

Motet : Regina caeli [Hauts: texte/YouTube], Gregor Aichinger

 Postlude : Toccata en sol mineur [Payne : BNQ ; BM] (info), Johann Pachelbel


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


Prelude: Andante in G, Desmond Ratcliffe (1917-2001)
 
Introit: Before the ending of the day [text], Healey Willan (1880-1968)

Preces and Responses: Harrison Oxley (1933-2009)

Psalm: 48 (Wolstenholme)
 
Canticles: Service in C, Stanley Wilson (1899-1953)

Anthem: O Gladsome Light [text], Harrison Oxley 

Postlude: Festal Finale, Desmond Ratcliffe

November 10, 2013

Robert Vonnoh, In Flanders Field - Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow, Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio, 1890

May we embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ [Opening Collect of the Day].

Rembrance Sunday / 25th Sunday after Pentecost [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Aria, op. 51 [Metzler: YouTube], Flor Peeters (1903-86)

Setting: Missa Bell'Amfitrit'altera [Sixteen: BNQ; BM; CML] (info), Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

Introit: Justorum animae [Gardiner: Text/musicMe], Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

Motet: Selig sind die Toten [text] [Herreweghe: YouTube], Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
 
Postlude: Fantasia "O God our help" C.H.H. Parry (1848-1918)


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale


Prélude : Liebster Jesu, BWV 633 [Kibbie : listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Ordinaire : Missa Inter Vestibulum, Francisco Guerrero (1528-99)
 
Introït : Caro mea [texte], Francisco Guerrero

Motet : Ave Maria [texte] [Savall : YouTube], Francisco Guerrero 

Postlude : Vater unser, BWV 636 [Koopman : YouTube ; Pilon : YouTube ; Kibbie : listen], Johann Sebastian Bach


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


Prelude: Prelude: Saraband and Interlude, Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
 
Introit: Holy is the true light [text] [Christ Church, Oxford: YouTube; Carwood: CML] (info); William Harris (1883-1973)

Preces and Responses:  Herbert Sumsion

Psalm: 46 (Luther)
 
Magnificat: Service in G [Richford: YouTube], Herbert Sumsion

Nunc dimittis: Service in G [Rhoden Girls: YouTube], Herbert Sumsion

Anthem:  Lo, round the throne [text], Henry G. Ley (1887-1062) 

Postlude: Toccata on "University," Herbert Sumsion

November 3, 2013

James Tissot, Zacchaeus in the Sycamore, Brooklyn Museum, 1886-94

So Zacchaeus ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way [NRSV, Luke 19:4].

Commemoration of All Souls / 24th Sunday after Pentecost [Choir Notes]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op. 122 [Golebiowski: musicMe], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
 
Setting: Requiem a quattro voci (1583), [Plus Ultra: YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Introit: Requiem aeternam [text] [Plus Ultra: YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria

Anthem: Requiem aeternam [Plus Ultra: Text/YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria
 
Communion: Lux aeterna [Plus Ultra: Text/YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria
 
Postlude: O Lord of Life, Healey Willan (1880-1968)


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale


Prélude : O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op. 122 [Golebiowski : musicMe], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)

Ordinaire : Requiem a quattro voci (1583), [Plus Ultra : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
 
Introït :  Requiem aeternam [texte] [Plus Ultra : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria
 
Antienne : Requiem aeternam [Plus Ultra : Texte/YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria

Communion :  Lux aeterna [Plus Ultra : Texte/YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria

Postlude : Gelobet sei Gott [écoutez], Healey Willan (1880-1968)


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

Prelude: O wie selig seid irh doch, ihr Frommen [Golebiowski: musicMe], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)   

 
Introit: Justorum animae [Gardiner: Text/musicMe], Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

Preces and Responses: John Holmes (d. 1629)

Psalm: 130 (Garrett)
 
Magnificat: Deutsches Magnificat [Rex: YouTube], Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

Nunc dimittis: Johann Walter (1496-1570) 

Anthem: Selig sind die Toten [text] [Herreweghe: YouTube], Heinrich Schütz

Postlude: O Gott, du frommer Gott [Golebiowski: musicMe], Johannes Brahms