Duccio di Buoninsegna, Appearance on the Mountain in Galilee, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit [NRSV, Matt: 28:19]"
Trinity Sunday
June 19, 2011
June 19, 2011
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.
Yookyung Rachelle Choi, Christ Church Cathedral organ scholar, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Performance at McGill University, will give a recital at the cathedral at the Wilhelm organ on Saturday, June 25, at 5:00 pm. Admission free.
Programme:
Programme:
Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582 [Alain: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Livre d’Orgue [listen], Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)
Et in terra pax à 5
Fugue
Duo
Récit de Tierce en taille
Fugue à 5
Offertoire sur les grands jeux
Chorale No. 2 in B minor [Guillou: YouTube], César Franck (1822-1890)
L’Ascension [Messiaen Himself: Grooveshark], Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
II. Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le cielL’Ascension [Messiaen Himself: Grooveshark], Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
III. Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne
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The prelude for evensong this Sunday is John Bull, Gloria tibi Trinitas. A recording of Bull's organ music performed by Kevin Komisaruk on the 1984 Wolff organ of the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Montreal, is available to listen online from the Naxos Music Library [NML] (info) and to borrow from La Bibliothèque nationale du Québec (Montreal). Check for availability. [BNQ]
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Click to read about Gloria tibi Trinitas, the antiphon that introduces the initial psalm of First Vespers (Roman Catholic) for the eve of Trinity Sunday.
Performance in plainchant by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. [YouTube] [Beginning up to 0:38]
Performance of Thomas Tallis, Gloria tibi Trinitas, by the Chapelle du Roi; Andrew Benson-Wilson, organ; Alistair Dixon conducting [NML] (info)
John Taverner composed a Mass based on the plainchant antiphon, Gloria tibi Trinitas. This Mass has no Kyrie because it was common at the time to trope the Kyrie.
Performance by The Sixteen, Harry Christophers conducting. [CML] (info)
Performance by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting. [NML] (info)
Performance by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephen Darlington conducting [NML] (info)
Sandro Botticelli, Holy Trinity (Pala delle Convertite), Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1491-93
Gloria tibi Trinitas: Antiphon, Motet, Mass and In Nomine
Gloria tibi Trinitas equalis una deitas
Glory to thee, equal trinity, single deity,
et ante omnia secula et nunc et in perpetuum.
before all ages, now, and forever.
Click to read about Gloria tibi Trinitas, the antiphon that introduces the initial psalm of First Vespers (Roman Catholic) for the eve of Trinity Sunday.
Performance in plainchant by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. [YouTube] [Beginning up to 0:38]
Performance of Thomas Tallis, Gloria tibi Trinitas, by the Chapelle du Roi; Andrew Benson-Wilson, organ; Alistair Dixon conducting [NML] (info)
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John Taverner composed a Mass based on the plainchant antiphon, Gloria tibi Trinitas. This Mass has no Kyrie because it was common at the time to trope the Kyrie.
Performance by The Sixteen, Harry Christophers conducting. [CML] (info)
Performance by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting. [NML] (info)
Performance by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephen Darlington conducting [NML] (info)
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Click to read about In Nomine with access to a number of MIDI versions.
John Bull, In Nomine, Fitzwilliam Virginal Book XXXVII (one of at least 12 In Nomine by John Bull) [YouTube]
To listen to John Bull, In Nomine, performed by Etienne Baillot on the 1981 Garnier organ of the Cathédrale Saint Étienne, Metz, Click here, then click on "Listen to the Program," then hold button and slide to 44:27 (44 minutes and 27 seconds) (followed by Fantasia at 46:53).
Fretwork has a recording, In Nomine, accompanied by excellent liner notes, all available online at the Naxos Music Library. Check with your librarian. [NML] (info). In Nomine may be borrowed from the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. Check for availabilty.
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Celebrate Trinity Sunday with Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen, Méditations sur le mystère de Sainte-Trinité / Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity.
1) Le Père Inengendré: The Father Unengendered ("The Father of the Stars")
2) La Sainteté de Jésus Christ: The Holiness of Jesus Christ
3) La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l’essence: The True Relation to God is Actually Identical to the Essence
4) Je suis, Je suis !: I Am, I Am!
5) Dieu est immense, Éternel, Immuable. Le souffle de l’Esprit – Dieu est Amour: God is Immense, Eternal, Immovable - The Breath of the Spirit - God is Love
7) Le Père et le Fils aiment par le Saint-Esprit eux mêmes et nous: The Father and the Son Love, Through the Holy Spirit, Themselves and Us
8) Dieu est simple: God is simple
9) Je suis Celui qui suis: I Am Who I Am
Click here to go to a performance by Charles Thompson at the 1927 E.M. Skinner / 1963 Aeolian-Skinner organs of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Performance of Thomas Daniel Schlee at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris [musicMe] (info)
Performance of Christopher Bowers-Broadbent [musicMe] (info)
Performance by Olivier Latry on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris. [YouTube]
Performance of Michael Bonaventure at the Rieger organ of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh [We7] (info)
Click to go to Simon Cummings' blog where it is possible to download Olivier Messiaen himself performing the Méditations on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Église de la Sainte-Trinité.
Olivier Messiaen, who was titular of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris for 66 years, composed other organ music in praise of the Blessed Trinity as well.
The Pièce en trio, No. 1, from the Livre d'orgue, was composed for Trinity Sunday. Listen: Messiaen himself, Thiry, Bonaventure.
As was the Pièce en trio, No. 2, also from the Livre d'orgue.
Listen: Messiaen himself, Thiry, Bonaventure.
And the last movement of Le Corps glorieux / The Glorified Body: La Mystère de la Sainte-Trinité / The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity. Listen: Messiaen himself, Byram-Wigfield, Trotter.
The Pièce en trio, No. 1, from the Livre d'orgue, was composed for Trinity Sunday. Listen: Messiaen himself, Thiry, Bonaventure.
As was the Pièce en trio, No. 2, also from the Livre d'orgue.
Listen: Messiaen himself, Thiry, Bonaventure.
And the last movement of Le Corps glorieux / The Glorified Body: La Mystère de la Sainte-Trinité / The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity. Listen: Messiaen himself, Byram-Wigfield, Trotter.
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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad / O sacred bath of water and the Spirit, Cantata 165, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt and Leusink.
Louis Tiffany, Nicodemus Came to Him by Night, First Presbyterian Church, Lockport, NY