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Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Holy Week: Passion Sunday through Easter
April 5-12, 2009
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar.
The music of Orlande de Lassus appears throughout Holy Week Services. His St. Mark Passion will be sung on Good Friday.
Click to read about Orlande de Lassus and listen to a wide array of his liturgical music.
Click to hear this year's Holy Week programme of organ and choral music from Pipedreams: From Palms to Passiontide.
Click to hear last year's Easter programme: A Resurrection Festival.
One of the choral selections during Good Friday's Meditations on the Passion is Gregorio Allegri's Miserere (Psalm 51).
Click to read about Allegri's masterpiece and listen to a number of different performances.
Holy Week: Passion Sunday through Easter
April 5-12, 2009
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar.
The music of Orlande de Lassus appears throughout Holy Week Services. His St. Mark Passion will be sung on Good Friday.
Click to read about Orlande de Lassus and listen to a wide array of his liturgical music.
Click to hear this year's Holy Week programme of organ and choral music from Pipedreams: From Palms to Passiontide.
Click to hear last year's Easter programme: A Resurrection Festival.
One of the choral selections during Good Friday's Meditations on the Passion is Gregorio Allegri's Miserere (Psalm 51).Click to read about Allegri's masterpiece and listen to a number of different performances.
On Good Friday at 5pm, the Quatuor Claudel-Canimex will perform the Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in E-flat, Hob. III/50-56, with a commentary by the Very Rev. Michael Pitts.
Click to listen Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ, Hob. XX/1, the original version for chamber orchestra, performed by the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, Armin Jordan conducting.
Click to listen to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Stabat Mater dolorosa performed by the Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott conducting.
Click for the possibility to listen to Johann Sebastian Bach, St. Mark Passion, BWV 247, performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge Baroque Camerata; Geoffrey Webber, conducting.
Click to listen to an English version of Tomás Luis de Victoria, The Passion according to St. John, performed by the Renaissance Singers of Montreal, Donald Mackey conducting.
Click for the posssibility to listen to Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting.
Click for the possibility to listen to Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, in performances conducted by Otto Klemperer, Masaaki Suzuki and Helmuth Rilling.
Click to go to George Frideric Handel , Messiah: Part II & III, The Passion, Resurrection, & Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, performed by James Bowman, countertenor; Robert Tear, tenor; Benjamin Luxon, baritone; the Choir of King's College, Cambridge; the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields; Sir David Willcocks, conducting.
The Trinity Church Wall Street Choir and the Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Megill, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, performed Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesu Meine Freude, BWV 227; Dietrich Buxtehude, Membra Jesu Nostri; and Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater, now available to watch online.
Click to open the programme with notes and texts in the original language and translation.
Click to watch and hear the concert. By reducing the size of the programme it can be placed below the video presentation so that the text can be followed as one watches.
The Exultet is the hymn sung to the paschal candle at the beginning of the Great Vigil of Easter.
Click for the full English and Latin text.
Click to hear the Exultet chanted in English by Fr. Tim Hepburn of the Emory University Catholic Center.
Click to listen to Hervé Lamy chant the Easter Proclamation in Gregorian.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Kommt, eilat und laufet / Come, hasten and run (Oster-Oratorium / Easter Oratorio), BWV 249, with a performance by Emily Van Evera, soprano; Caroline Trevor, contralto; Charles Daniels, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass; the Taverner Consort; the Taverner Players; Andrew Parrott conducting.
The Trinity Church Wall Street Choir and the Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Megill, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, performed Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesu Meine Freude, BWV 227; Dietrich Buxtehude, Membra Jesu Nostri; and Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater, now available to watch online.
Click to open the programme with notes and texts in the original language and translation.
Click to watch and hear the concert. By reducing the size of the programme it can be placed below the video presentation so that the text can be followed as one watches.
The Exultet is the hymn sung to the paschal candle at the beginning of the Great Vigil of Easter.
Click for the full English and Latin text.
Click to hear the Exultet chanted in English by Fr. Tim Hepburn of the Emory University Catholic Center.
Click to listen to Hervé Lamy chant the Easter Proclamation in Gregorian.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Kommt, eilat und laufet / Come, hasten and run (Oster-Oratorium / Easter Oratorio), BWV 249, with a performance by Emily Van Evera, soprano; Caroline Trevor, contralto; Charles Daniels, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass; the Taverner Consort; the Taverner Players; Andrew Parrott conducting.