July 31, 2011

Anonymous, Loaves and Fish, Tabgha, Israel, 4th cent.
Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds [NRSV, Matthew 14:19b].


Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
July 31, 2011

Click to go immediately to:




2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.




The prelude for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday is the first larghetto movement from George Frideric Handel, Organ Concerto in F major, No. 13,  "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale." 

Performance of - 

Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (I larghetto; II allegro) [YouTube





Johann Biber and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Georg Hlinka conducting [We 7(info)







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 Louis XIII organ case installed in the Cathedral of Rheims while De Grigny was organist 

Nicolas de Grigny's only surviving music is a large volume of organ works, Premier livre d'orgue (Paris, 1699; second edition 1711). 

The organ voluntaries for evensong this coming Sunday are from the Mass from the Premier livre d'orgue.

Performance of the Mass from the Premier livre d'orgue by Pierre Bardon on the 1772-74 Isnard organ of la Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var) en Provence [musicMe] (info) 

Performance of the Hymns from the Premier livre d'orgue by Pierre Bardon on the 1772-74 Isnard organ of la Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var) en Provence [musicMe] (info)

Performance of the Mass from the Premier livre d'orgue by  Jean-Jacques Grunenwald , at the 1787 Clicquot organ of the Cathedral of Poitiers; Hugh Mackenzie, cello; Chœur des moines de l'Abbaye de la Pierre-Qui-Vire, Père Fulbert conducting. [musicMe] (info)

Performance of the Mass from the
Premier livre d'orgue by Olivier Vernet on the 1625 Astruc / 1748 Scherrer / 1992 Aubertin organ of the Abbey Church, Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye (Isère); Ensemble Jacques Moderne [We 7] (info)

Performance of the Hymns from the
Premier livre d'orgue by Olivier Vernet on the 1625 Astruc / 1748 Scherrer / 1992 Aubertin organ of the Abbey Church, Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye (Isère); Ensemble Jacques Moderne [We 7] (info)

 Click to go to James Pressler's virtual performance of Nicolas de Grigny, Premier Livre d'orgue (First Organ Book).  The entire work can be streamed or individual movements played by clicking on the "notes." 

Performance of Nicolas de Grigny, Premier Livre d'orgue by John Grew on the 1981 Wolff organ of Redpath Hall, McGill University) [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.



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 Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust / Contented peace,beloved delight of the soul Cantata 170, with performances by Fasolis, Gardiner, Goebel, Leonhardt, Leusink, Marriner, Rilling, Scherchen.


Gustave Doré, The Sermon on the Mount, private collection, mid-19th cent.