Rembrandt van Rijn, Satan Tempting Christ to Change Stones into Bread, Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1635-40The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread [NRSV, Luke 4:3]."
Christ Church Cathedral Choir NotesFirst Sunday of Lent
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1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar
Relive the Christ Church Cathedral Choirs concert that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the cathedral: music composed by cathedral musicians and music composed for the cathedral. Click for more information and learn how to purchase your own CD of the Banquet céleste. Your contribution supports music at the cathedral.
The organ postlude for choral Eucharist on this coming Sunday, the First Sunday of Lent, is Johann Sebastian Bach, Fantasia in C minor, BWV 562. Click to read about it and to go to a number of performances.
McGill Winter Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series
The Wolff organ of Redpath Hall: 12:30 pm
Admission Free
Friday, February 19: Willliam Porter
2010 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-36)
Click to go to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Missa Romana; Elisabeth Colombani, soprano; Malgorzata Grzegorzewicz Rodek, soprano; Iva Ionova, soprano; Marcin Ciszewski, countertenor; Konstantin Mikhalski, countertenor; Matteo Bellotto, bass; Orchestre de l'Académie Baroque Européenne d'Ambronay; Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting.
Click to go to William Byrd, Miserere mei, Deus a 5 voces, performance by The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter conducting.
Georges Rouault, Miserere: Sometimes a blind man has consoled the seeing.
Click to go to a performance of Richard Davy, Stabat Mater dolorosa, by the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Grayston "Bill" Ives conducting.
Antonello da Messina, Crucifixion, Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1475