March 20, 2016

Giotto di Bondone, The Entry into Jerusalem, Cappella Scrovegni, Padua, 1304-06

As Jesus was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying, "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven [NRSV, Luke 19:37-38]!"

March 20: Passion (Palm) Sunday [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Choirs

Setting: Missa in passione Christi, Arthur Wills(b. 1926)

Introit: Hosianna dem Sohne Davids [text] [King’s: YouTube], Bartholomäus Gesius (1560-1613)

 

Motet: Drop, drop slow tears [Exeter: YouTube], Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

Postlude: Vexilla regis (The Royal Banners), Healey Willan (1880-1968)

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude :  Passion Chorale « Herzlich tut mich

verlangen » BWV 727 [Guarino : YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Ordinaire : Missa XVII Adventus et Quadragesimae  [YouTube], Plain-chant

Introïte : Hosianna dem Sohne Davids [texte] [King’s : YouTube], Bartholomäus Gesius (1560-1613)

Motet :

Postlude : Herzlich tut, Jean Langlais (1907-91)

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: Drop, drop slow tears [Exeter: YouTube], Kenneth Leighton

Preces and Responses: Richard Lehman (b. 1960)

Psalm: 22, verses 1-21, Matthew Camidge

Magnificat: [St. Thomas: YouTube], Thomas Attwood Wlamisley (1814-56)

Nunc dimittis: [St. Thomas: YouTube], Thomas Attwood Wlamisley

Anthem: Solus ad victimam [Christ Church Oxford: text/YouTube], Kenneth Leighton

Postlude: Jésus accepte la souffrance from La Nativité du Seigneur [Preston: musicMe], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)