December 27, 2009

Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Boy Jesus in the Temple, Museo dell'Opera del duomo, Siena, 1308-11

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. (NRSV, Luke 2:46).


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers Quartet

Prelude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie:
listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Infant holy [text] [King's College: YouTube], Polish Carol

Mass Setting: Missa O magnum mysterium [Westminster: YouTube; Quire/Voyces: listen] Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Motet: O magnum mysterium [text] [Cambridge Singers: YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Postlude: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 [Kibbie: listen; Bish: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

There is no evensong today.