March 3, 2013


 Alexet Pismenny, The Parable of the Fruitless Fig Tree

The gardener replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.  If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'" [NRSV, Luke 13:8-9]."

3rd Sunday of Lent [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Trebles and Women of the Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Tierce en taille de La Messe pour des couvents [VallaYouTube], François Couperin (1668-1733)
 
Setting: Messe in f, [Tsuji: YouTube] Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)

Introit: Tua Jesu dilectio [text] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)


Motet: Verbum supernum [text], Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)

Postlude: Chaconne en ré mineur [Bonenfant : YouTube],
Louis Couperin (1626-61)


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : Tierce en taille de La Messe pour des couvents [Valla : YouTube], François Couperin
(1668-1733)

 Introït : Miserere mei, Deus [texte] [Tesoro : YouTube], Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) 

Ordinaire : Messa a quattro voci, Antonio Lotti 

Motet : Super flumina Babylonis [texte] [Neskovic: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1530/32-94) 

Postlude : Chaconne en ré mineur [Bonenfant : YouTube],
Louis Couperin (1626-61)


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: Jesu, rex admirabilis [Gardiner: text/YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)

Preces and Responses: David Terry (b. 1975) 

Psalm: 27 (James Turle) 

Canticles: Service in f, Peter Aston (b. 1938) 

Anthem: Adam lay ybounden [text] [Intima: BNQ; BM] (info), Matthew Larkin (b. 1963) 

Postlude: Passacaglia [Vivian: BNQ; BM] (info), Kenneth Leighton