March 15, 2015


Anthony Van Dyck, Moses and the Brazen Serpent, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1621


So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live [NRSV, Numbers 21:9].


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich / Our Father in Heaven [van Beek: listen], Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Setting: Missa super La, la maistre Pierre, Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)
Introit: Laetare Jerusalem [Chicago: YouTube], Plainsong, mode 5
Motet: Adoramus te, Christe [text] [Dresdner: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Postlude: Praeludium in a [Foccroulle: musicMe], Georg Böhm
12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : Vater unser im Himmelreich [van Beek : écoutez], Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Ordinaire : Missa super La, la maistre Pierre, Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)
Introït : Laetare Jerusalem [texte] [Chicago : YouTube], Plainsong, mode 5
Motet : Adoramus te, Christe [texte] [Dresdner : YouTube], Orlande de Lassus
Postlude : Erhalt uns, Herr, Georg Böhm
4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)
Prelude: Récit en taille,  Jean-Jacques Grunenwald (1911–82)
Introit: Adoramus te, Christe [text] [Dresdner: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus  (1532-1594)
Preces and Responses: Robert Jones (b. 1945)
Psalm: 130, George Garrett
Magnificat: Tone 6, fauxbourdons, Simon Lindley (b. 1948)
Nunc dimittis: Tone 8.1, fauxbourdons, Simon Lindley
Anthem: Adoramus te, Christe [text] [Cantus: YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)

Postlude: Final from Sonata, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald