October 4, 2009

Nicholas Maes, Christ blessing the children, National Gallery, London, 1652-53

"Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it (NRSV, Mark 10:15)."

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Click to go immediately to:

1) The
Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar



Two movements from Percy Whitlock, Sketches for Organ on Verses From the Psalms, are the organ voluntaries at evensong this coming Sunday. Click to read about Percy Whitlock and listen to a wide variety of his organ music performed by Jennifer Bate and John Scott.




Festival des couleurs de l'orgue français

Chapel of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal
2065 rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Sunday, October 4, 3 pm: Frédéric Munoz
Sunday, October 11, 3 pm:
William Porter
Sunday, October 18, 3 pm: Federico Andreoni
Sunday, October 25, 3 pm: Yves-G. Préfontaine
Admission Free.


2009 Commemoration: The 250 aniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Last week's Choir Notes featured Henry Purcell's Te Deum and Jubilate. This week we turn to George Frideric Handel. Click to read about and listen to George Frideric Handel: Te Deum "Utrecht" and Jubilate, HWV 278. Click as well to go to George Frideric Handel: Te Deum in D major 'Dettingen', HWV283.




Click to go to Giovanni Felice Sances, Stabat Mater dolorosa; Maria Christina Kiehr, soprano; Ensemble Fenice, Jean Tubery conducting.





Click to go a performance of Cantata 26 by Soprano: Ursula Buckel; Contralto: Hertha Töpper; Tenor: Ernst Haefliger; Bass: Theo Adam; Münchener Bach-Chor / Münchener Bach-Orchester; Karl Richter conducting. Recorded at Herkules-Saal, München.