January 23, 2011

Jacob Willemsz de Wet, The Calling of the Apostles, Private Collection

 As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them [NRSV, Matthew 4:21].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes 
Third Sunday after Epiphany

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Paul Hindemith aged 28

Both organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday, January 23, are the work of Paul Hindemith.

Click to read about Paul Hindemith and his compositions for the organ.

Performance of Organ Sonata No. 1 (I. Massig schnell - II. Sehr langsam - Phantasie, frei - Ruhig bewegt) by Sietze de Vries
at the Marcussen & Søn organ of the Laurenskerk, Rotterdam..
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Performance of Organ Sonata No. 2 ( I. Lebhaft; II. Ruhig bewegt; III. Fuge: Massig bewegt, heiter) by Jan Jongepier (organ not determined) [listen]

Performance of Organ Sonata No. 3, by
Anton Heiller on the 1967 C.B. Fisk organ of Memorial Chapel, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, click here, then click on "Listen to the program," then for I. Ach Gott, wem soll ich's klagen, hold button and slide to 28:09 (28 minutes and 9 seconds); for II. Wach auf, mein Hort, hold button and slide to 33:49 (33 minutes and 49 seconds); for III. So wunsch ich ihr, hold button and slide to 36:31 (36 minutes and 31 seconds). Michael Barone gives a commentary at 32:11.
 
Performance of all three organ sonatas by Kevin Bowyer on the 1987 Marcussen Organ of Odense Cathedral, Denmark. Listen to all three sonatas in sequence or click on individual movements. [NML] (info)

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 Felix Mendelssohn
Both organ voluntaries for evensong this coming Sunday, January 23, are the work of Felix Mendelssohn
 
Click to read about Felix Mendelssohn and his compositions.

Three hour-and-a-half programs of Pipedreams are dedicated to performances of Mendelssohn's organ music: Program I, Program II, Program III.

Click to go to Felix Mendelssohn, Six Organ Sonatas, op. 65, performed by Heinrich Gurtner. [Tracks 15, 16, and 17 are erroneously listed as Sonata No. 4 instead of Sonata No.5]

There is a wide selection of Mendelssohn organ music available for online listening on the Naxos Music Library.  Check with your librarian.  Cardholders of La Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, ready to open their dossier (account) online, click here.

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Illustrator of Petrus Comestor's Bible Historiale, Jesus healing the leper, De Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1372


Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Lutheran Church Year

Click to go to Cantata 72 conducted by Pieter Jan Leusink.

Click to go to Cantata 73 conducted by Pieter Jan Leusink and Masaaki Suzuki.

Click to go to Cantata 111 conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt Pieter Jan Leusink, and Karl Richter.

Click to go to Cantata 156 conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Pieter Jan Leusink.