July 5, 2015

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Ezekiel, Cappella Sistina, Vatican, 1510

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Prélude modal from Vingt-quatre Pièces [Pattavina: YouTube], Jean Langlais (1907-1991)  

Setting: Missa de Beata Virgine, Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628)

Introit: Lauda anima mea Dominum [text], Gregor Aichinger

Motet: Regina caeli laetare [Hauts: text/YouTube],Gregor Aichinger

Postlude:  Mode de si from Huit pièces modales, Jean Langlais

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : Prélude modal de Vingt-quatre Pièces [Pattavina : YouTube], Jean Langlais (1907-1991)

Ordinaire : Missa de Beata Virgine, Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628)

Introït : Lauda anima mea Dominum [texte], Gregor Aichinger

Motet : Regina caeli laetare [Hauts : texte/YouTube],Gregor Aichinger

Postlude : Mode de si de Huit pièces modales, Jean Langlais

4:00 pm Evensong

The Cathedral Singers

(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)

Prelude: Obra de lleno de sexto tono (obra de falsas) - Anonymous 17th cent. from the collection Flores de musica compiled by Antonio Martín y Coll.  

Introit: O gladsome light, [text] [Rutter: BNQ; BM](info), Louis Bourgeois (1510-61)

Preces and Responses: plainsong

Psalm: 3, 4  Tones 8.2, 2.1

Magnificat : Tone 8.1, Fauxbourdons, Thomas Morley (1557-1603)

Nunc Dimittis: Tone 5.1, Fauxbourdons, Thomas Morley

Anthem: Round me falls the night [text], Adam Drese (1620-1701)

Postlude:  Las folías - Anonymous 17th cent. from the collection Flores de musica compiled by Antonio Martín y Coll.

June 28, 2015

Paolo Veronese, Christ and the Woman with the Issue of Blood,

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, 1565-70

She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well [Mark 5:27-28].’

Click to go June 24, 2015, The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Entrée solennelle, Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)

Setting: Service in F, Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)

Introit: Almighty, God, which hast me brought [text] [Luley: YouTube], Thomas Ford (1580-1648)

Motet: Locus iste [text] [Sixteen: YouTube], Anton Bruckner (1824-96)

Postlude:  Cortège solennel,  Léon Boëllmann

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : Vorspiel und Fuge in c-Moll [Kropfreiter : YouTube], Anton Bruckner (1824-96)

Ordinaire : Messa a quattro voci, Giovanni Antonio Grossi (1615-84)

Introït : Sacerdotes Domini [texte] [Dominican : YouTube] [Christ Church Oxford : CML] (info), William Byrd (1543-1623)

Motet : Cibavit eos [texte] [YouTube], William Byrd

Postlude : Ave Maria [YouTube], Anton Bruckner

4:00 pm Evensong

The Cathedral Singers

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Prelude: Estampie [van Dijk: YouTube] (Codex Robertsbridge: anon. XIVe siècle, fol. 43\2)

Introit: Almighty and everlasting God (text & listen), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Preces and Responses: Orlando Gibbons

Psalm: 71 William Byrd

Magnificat: Short Service [Merbecke: YouTube], Orlando Gibbons

Nunc dimittis: Short Service [Merbecke: YouTube], Orlando Gibbons

Anthem: Glorious and powerful God [Red Byrd:text/YouTube], Orlando Gibbons

Postlude:  Estampie retrove [Pinkevicius: YouTube] (Codex Robertsbridge: anon. XIVe siècle, fol. 43v)

June 24, 2015

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of John the Baptist (detail)

Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1486-90

After those days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she remained in seclusion. She said, ’This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked favourably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people [NRSV, Luke 1:24-25].’

Click to go to the 4th Sunday after Pentecost.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

12:15 pm Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers Quartet

Setting: Missa Sine Nomine [listen] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)

Introit: Adoramus te, Christe [text] [Cantus :YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Motet: Fuit homo missus a Deo [text] [organ/violin:YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Postlude:  Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 [Kibbie: listen; Stockmeier: YouTube],  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)