The Second Coming, San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th cent.
Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming [NRSV, Matthew 24:42].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The First Sunday of Advent
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1) The Music Programme Homepage
3) The Concert Calendar
Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco (detail), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1496
In place of evensong this coming Sunday, there will be a festive procession of lessons and carols. Click to access the complete programme.
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Conditor Alme Siderum (Creator of the Stars of Night) is the quintessential advent hymn. During advent it is always sung at Roman Catholic vespers. It will be sung in several forms this coming Sunday as well as providing the underlying theme of the Mass setting. Sano di Pietro, God creating the stars
Click to read about Conditor alme siderum and to listen to a number of choral and organ arrangements.
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The organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist, November 28, are Sleepers Awake by Johann Sebastian Bach and Emma Lou Diemer. Click for a number of different interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 (Sleepers Awake).
1972 Vierdag organ, Bethlehemkerk, The Hague
Peter von Cornelius, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 1830
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Eric Gill: "O"
The "O" Antiphons are associated with the Magnificat during the week preceding Christmas. Click to read about them and to listen online to a number of different renditions.
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Claudio Monteverdi
On Tuesday, November 30, at 7:30 pm, Christopher Jackson will conduct the Schulich School Singers with the McGill Baroque Orchestra and the Cappella Antica (Julian Wachner, Hank Knox, Valerie Kinslow, directors) in Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610). Admission $10.
Click to go to online performances with Latin-English text:
Performance by Taverner Consort, Choir and Players; soloists: Emma Kirkby,
Rogers Covey-Crump, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas; Andrew Parrott conducting.
Performance by soprano: Margaret Marshall; mezzo-soprano: Felicity Palmer; tenors: Kurt Equiluz, Philip Langridge; baritone: Thomas Hampson; bass: Arthur Korn; Concentus Musicus Wien; Tölzer Knabenchor (director: Arnold Schönberg); Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting.
Performance in the Basilica di San Marco, Venice, by sopranos: Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennicchi; countertenor: Michael Chance; tenors: Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Sandro Naglia; basses: Bryn Terfel, Alastair Miles; the Monterverdi Choir; the London Oratory Junior Choir; His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts; the English Baroque Soloists; Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting.
Performance at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, September 10, 2010, by the Monteverdi Choir; the English Baroque Soloists; the London Oratory Junior Choir & the Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts; Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting.