June 7, 2009

Master of the Votive Picture of Sankt Lambrecht, The Holy Trinity, Museum mittelalterlicher österreichischer Kunst, Vienna, 1430

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Trinity Sunday

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar.



The organ voluntaries for the special Eucharist this coming Sunday, June 7, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Synod of Montreal are both from Charles-Marie Widor, Symphony No. 4. Click to go to complete versions by Patrice Caire and Joseph Nolan as well as a Pipedreams programme comparing the Symphony No. 4 of Widor and that of his student, Louis Vierne.



Click to celebrate Trinity Sunday with Olivier Messiaen. Performances by Jennifer Bate, Olivier Latry, John Scott and Dame Gillian Weir.


Click on underlined selections to hear four piano preludes appropriate for Trinity Sunday composed by Charles Tournemire and performed by Lise Boucher: Méditation sur Dieu le Père, Méditation sur le Fils, Méditation sur le Saint-Esprit, Glorification de la Trinité.





Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

Tuesday, June 9, 12:30 pm: Wadworth/Warren/Casavant organ of St. James United Church, Andrew Ager (Admission free / voluntary contribution)





To hear John Stainer, Anthem for Trinity Sunday,
I Saw the Lord
(text
), performed by the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Barry Rose conducting and John Scott on the 1949 Wicks organ of the Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, click here, then click on "Part I," then hold button and slide to 4:45 (4 minutes and 45 seconds).



Click for performance of Cantata 165 by Soprano: Caroline Stam; Alto: Elisabeth von Magnus; Tenor: Paul Agnew; Bass: Klaus Mertens; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir; Conductor: Ton Koopman.