Giovanni Belini, Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1640sChrist Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Second Sunday after Christmas Day
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1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar
Second Sunday after Christmas Day
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar
Morten Lauridesen, O magnum mysterium, sung by the Brussels Chamber Choir (2008), Helen Cassano conducting.
This past Sunday, the choir sang Tomás Luis de Victoria, O magnum mysterium. This coming Sunday there will be a version by Morten Lauridsen. Click to go the text, translation and access to numerous versions by different composers.
Hans Baldung Grien, Birth of Jesus, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1520
Click to go to a performance of Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ, by the Lille National Orchestra, Jean-Claude Casadesus conducting.
Bartolomé Carducho, The Flight into Egypt, Art Institute, Chicago, c.1485
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Giovanni Bellini (workshop), The Circumcision, National Gallery, London, c. 1500Anyone with online access to the Naxos Music Library, in particular cardholders of la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec and members of "Beethoven on Demand" (info ), may listen online to seven different versions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio.
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