July 10, 2011


Vincent Van gogh, The Sower, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, 1889

A sower went out to sow [NRSV, Matthew 13:3b].

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
July 10, 2011

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.

Tomás Luis de Victoria
  
The Communion Motet for this coming Sunday is Jesu, dulcis memoria, attributed to Tomás Luis de Victoria.

"Jesu, dulcis memoria, essentially a polyphonic hymn setting, is found under Victoria's name in two nineteenth-century collections, Alfieri's Raccolta di mottetti of 1840, and the Prince of Moscow's collection of 1843--5. There is no earlier extant source, and on stylistic grounds it appears very unlikely that Victoria can have written the piece, exquisite as it is: it belongs rather to Monteverdi's generation, or later. Pedrell included it in the complete edition of Victoria, his version being the basis of most later editions."

Jesu, dulcis memoria, dans vera cordi gaudia, sed super mel et omnia eius dulcis praesentia. 

Jesu, the very thought of thee with sweetness fills my breast, but sweeter far thy face to see and in thy presence rest. (Edward Caswall)

Performance of: 

The Cambridge Singers [YouTube] 

University of North Texas Chamber Choir [YouTube]

Kammerchor cantamus Berlin [YouTube]

Coro e banda Sinfônica dos Arautos do Evangelho [YouTube]
 
Palestrina Choir [YouTube]

Jubilate Ensemble [YouTube]

Coro de la Cátedra de Dirección Coral del Conservatorio Superior de Música  [YouTube]

St. Ignatius Church Choir [YouTube]

Coro de la Asociación Musical del Casar [YouTube]

University of Rochester Chamber Singers [YouTube]

Coro "Lux Aeterna" [YouTube]

Gardner-Webb Choir [YouTube]

Iuvenis Musica [YouTube]

Voices of Ascension [Grooveshark] 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged by Leopold Stokowski [NML] (info)


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The organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are for a second week by Georg Muffat.
Two CDs of his organ works performed by Martin Haselböck are available for online listening by the Naxos Music Library.  Check with your librarian.  Cardholders of La
Bibliothèque nationale du Québéc (Montreal), ready to open their account (dossier) online, need only click on the appropriate [NML].

The First Eight Toccatas performed on the Freundt organ of Klosterneuburg Monastery [NML] (info)

Toccatas 9-12, Ciacona, Passacaglia and Nova Cyclopeias Harmonica on the Egedacher organ of the Zwettl Collegiate Church [NML]  (info)




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Summer is an Organ Festival in Montreal.
Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at Saints-Anges, Lachine, for the Summer 2011, Wednesdays at 7:30 pm



Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal, for the Summer 2011, Sundays at 7:00 pm.


Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. James United Church, Montreal, for the Summer 2011, Tuesdays at
12:30 pm.


Free organ recitals at St. Joseph Oratory, Montreal; Philippe Bélanger, organist; Sundays at 3:30 pm.


Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. Andrew and St. Paul Church, Montreal, for the Summer 2011, Thursdays at 12:15 pm.



Click to go the McGill Summer Organ Academy Concerts, July 12-21 (tickets: $15/10 unless otherwise indicated)







Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in meinem Herzen / I had much affliction in my heart, Cantata 21, with performances by Fasolis, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Koopman, Kuijken, Leusink and Richter.
Domenico Feti, Parable of the Lost Drachma, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, 1618-22