Alexander Master, Peter confessing Jesus to be the Christ, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, c.1430
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God [NRSV, Matthew 16:16]."
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
August 21, 2011
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1) The Music Programme Homepage
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
The prelude and postlude for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are the work of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Click to read about Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Jan Jongepier on the Freytag organ of the St.-Pancras- or Zuiderkerk in Enkhuizen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Nun komm'der Heiden Heiland [listen]
Adriaan Engels on the Marcussen organ of the Grote or Sint-Laurentskerk in Rotterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Fantasy on: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La performed by [listen]
Adriaan Engels on the Witte organ of the Grote or Sint-Jacobskerk in The Hague performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
Echo-fantasy [listen]
Variations on Psalm 116 [listen]
Fantasy on: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La (2) [listen]
Variations on Our Father who art in heaven [listen]
Toccata in a minor [listen]
Geert Bierling on the Slegel organ of the Grote or Sint-Andreaskerk in Hattem performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
Variations on "My young life has an end" [listen]
The granduke's ball [listen]
Chromatic fantasy in d minor [listen]
Dirk Janszoon Zwart on the Vater organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
Fantasy (Ionian) [listen]
Variations on "Allein Got in der Höh' sei Ehr" [listen]
Bert Matter on the Bader organ of the Sint-Walburgiskerk in Zutphen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Two variations on "Ich ruf'zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" [listen]
Jan Jansen on the Van Vulpen organ of the Grote or Sint-Nicolaaskerk in Brouwershaven performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck,"My young life has an end" (variations on I.iii No. 6) [listen]
Johan Beeftink on the Schnitger organ of the Der Aa-kerk in Groningen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Choral partita "O Mensch bewein'dein Sünde gross"
- verse 1 cantus firmus in soprano
- verse 2 cantus firmus in tenor
- verse 3 cantus firmus in bass [listen]
Lambert Erné on the Marcussen organ of the Nicolaïkerk in Utrecht performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
Fantasy in D [listen]
Variations on Dies sind die Heil'gen Zehngebot [listen]
Choral prelude 'Nun freut euch lieben
Christengemein' [listen]
Klaas Bolt on the Arend & Bruzema organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Echo fantasy [listen]
Dorthy de Rooij on the Kiespenning organ of the Grote Kerk in Wijk bij Duurstede performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Echo fantasy [listen]
Ton Koopman on the Schnitger organ in the Grote or Sint-Michaelskerk in Zwolle performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Chromatic fantasy in d minor / Puer nobis nascitur [listen]
Remy Syrier on a private home organ in Utrecht performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein [listen]
Pieter Dirksen on the 1787 Great Buergy Organ in the Bad Homburg Castle Church (Germany) performs Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck:
We All Believe In One True God / Wir Glauben All An Einen Gott [listen]
Fantasia in C Major [listen]
James Christie on the Fisk organ of Wellesley College performs Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck:
Toccata in C [listen]
Ballo del Gran Duca (doubtful; probably by Samuel Scheidt)
[listen]
Malle Sijmen (doubtful) [listen]
Onder een line groen [listen]
Poolsche Dans [listen]
The Voices of Ascension Chorus & Orchestra, Dennis Keene conducting, perform Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck:
Tu as esté, Seigneur, nostre retraicte (Psalm 90) for 4
Tu as esté, Seigneur, nostre retraicte (Psalm 90) for 4
voices [listen]
Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle, chantez, ô terre
(Psalm 96), for 4 voices [listen]
Hodie Christus natus est, motet for 5 voices & continuo
(Cantiones Sacrae No. 13) [listen]
The Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss conducting, performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
Resveillez vous, chascun fidele [listen]
Qui en la garde du haut Dieu [listen]
Du fonds de ma pensée [listen]
De profundis clamavi ad te Domine [listen]
Magnificat [listen]
Beati pauperes spiritu [listen]
A Dieu ma voix j'ay haussée [listen]
Ainsi qu'on oit le cerf bruire à 8 [listen]
Sus mon ame, qu'on benie le Souverain [listen]
Te Deum laudamus [listen]
The King's Singers perform Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:
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The prelude and postlude for evensong this coming Sunday are the work of John Blow. Below is his entire opera (with complete libretto), Venus and Adonis.
Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Venus and Adonis, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1635
John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Performance of Margaret Ritchie, Gordon Clinton and L'Ensemble Orchestral de L'Oiseau-Lyre, Anthony Lewis conducting.
For the entire libretto, right-click here, then click on "Open in New Window."
Venus and Adonis is available for free online listening from the Naxos Music Library. Check with your librarian. More info here. Cardholders of La bibliothèque nationale du Québec (Montreal), ready to open their account (dossier) online when requested, to be taken directly to the music, need only right-click here, then click on "Open in New Window."
Arrange windows.
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The anthem for evensong this coming Sunday is Thomas Morley, Nolo Mortem Peccatoribus. Below are eight versions for online listening.
Nolo mortem peccatoris; haec sunt verba Salvatoris. Father I am thine only Son, sent down from heav’n mankind to save. Father, all things fulfilled and done according to thy will, I have. Father, my will now all is this: Nolo mortem peccatoris. Father, behold my painful smart, taken for man on ev’ry side; Ev'n from my birth to death most tart, no kind of pain I have denied, but suffered all, and all for this: Nolo mortem peccatoris.
"I do not wish the death of a sinner." These are the words of the Saviour.
Performance of:
The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford [YouTube]
Durham Polyphony [YouTube]
Dordt College Concert Choir [YouTube]
St. Peter's Catholic Church, Columbia, SC [YouTube]
Clerestory [listen]
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford [NML]
The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter conducting [NML]
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford [NML]
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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 to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht / Lord, do not go into court with your servant, Cantata 105, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Leusink, Richter, and Rilling.
Unknown author from Jerom Nadal, Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, The Shrewd Manager, 1593