July 27, 2014


Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob leading Rachel or Leah, Chatsworth Settlement, Chatsworth, 1635

Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel [NRSV, Revelation 21:2]."


Seventh Sunday after Pentecost [Choir Notes]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers 

Prelude: Pastorale [Ryan: YouTube], David Conte (b. 1955) 

Setting: Missa a cuatro voces [midi-file], Juan Matías de Rivera (17th cent.) 

Introit: Cantate Domino [SCL: text / YouTube], Giuseppe Pitoni (1657-1743) 

Motet: Jesu dulcis memoria [text/listen], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) 

Postlude:  Toccata [Higgs: listen], David Conte

12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Organiste invitée : Helen Tucker 

Prélude : Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele [écoutez], Johannes Brahms (1833-97) 

Ordinaire : Missa a cuatro voces [midi-file], Juan Matías de Rivera (17 s.) 

Introït : Cantate Domino [SCL : texte/YouTube], Giuseppe Pitoni (1657-1743) 

Motet : Jesu dulcis memoria [texte/écoutez], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) 

Postlude : Preambulum primi toni [écoutez], Matthias Weckmann (1616/24-1674)

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

Prelude: Magnificat VIII toni (fantasie) [Nelson: BNQ; BM] (info), attribued to Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663) 

Introit: O Lord, the maker of all thing [text], Anonymous English, 16th cent. 

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 27 (Tone 5.3)

Magnificat: Tone 2.1, fauxbourdons, Carolus Andreas (16th cent.) 

Nunc dimittis: Tone 8.1, fauxbourdons, Carolus Andreas

Anthem: O Lord, the maker of all thing [Worcester: text/YouTube], William Mundy (1530-91) 

Postlude: Praeambulum in G [Davidsson: YouTube], Heinrich Scheidemann