June 24/26, 2016

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].’

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Friday, June 24, 2016

Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

12:15 pm Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers Quartet

Setting: Missa O quam gloriosum [King’s: YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Introit: O quam gloriosum [text] [Summerly: BNQ,BM] (info), Tomás Luis de Victoria

Motet: Fuit homo missus a Deo [text] [organ/violin:YouTube], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)

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

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost  

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Elegy [Hills: YouTube], C. H. H. Parry (1848-1918)

Setting: Missa Alma Redemptoris, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Introit: Vicitmae Paschali laudes, Tomás Luis de Victoria

Motet: Vidi aquam [text] [PlusUltra: musicMe], Tomás Luis de Victoria

Postlude: Ye boundless Realms of Joy [YouTube], C. H. H. Parry  

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude : Canzona ariosa [Myasoedov : YouTube], Andrea Gabrieli (1510-86)

Ordinaire : Missa Brevis [Voci del Tesoro : YouTube], Andrea Gabrieli

Introït : Beatus vir [texte], Andrea Gabrieli

Motet : Caro mea vere est cibus [texte] [YouTube], Andrea Gabrieli

Postlude : Fantasia allegra, Andrea Gabrieli

4:00 pm Evensong

The Cathedral Singers

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

Prelude: Prelude in c [YouTube], Healey Willan(1880-1968)

Introit: Light of the World,  David Hurd (b.1950)

Preces and Responses:  Philip Moore (b. 1943)

Psalm: 48, William Wolstenholme

Canticles: Salisbury Service, Richard Shephard

(b. 1949)

Anthem: Evening Hymn [text] [St. Paul's:YouTube], H. Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)

Postlude: Fugue in c, Healey Willan