Jean-François Millet, Angelus, Musée d'Orsay, 1857-59
"For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them [NRSV, Matthew 18:20]."
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
September 4, 2011Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.
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The Mass setting for this coming Sunday is Healey Willan, Missa Brevis No. 2.
Performance of Missa Brevis No. 2, by the Choirs of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto; Robert Bell Hunter conducting. [YouTube]
Healey Willan
(1880 - 1968)
Click to go to a wide selection of music by Healey Willan on YouTube, including Willan playing the organ himself.
A brief biography of Healey Willan.
Read the biographical details and incisive analysis of Willan's work in Patrick Wedd's programme notes for his Naxos recording of Healey Willan's Organ Works performed on the Casavant organ of St-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal.
Read the biographical details and incisive analysis of Willan's work in Patrick Wedd's programme notes for his Naxos recording of Healey Willan's Organ Works performed on the Casavant organ of St-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal.
A Review of Patrick Wedd's recording of Healey Willan's Organ Works.
It is also available for free online listening from the Naxos Music Library. [NML] (info)
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Performance of Missa Brevis No. 11, Sanctae Johannis Baptistae, performed by the Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison directing; Matthew Larkin , organ: Kyrie [NML] - Sanctus [NML] - Benedictus [NML ] - Agnus Dei [NML ] (info)
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Click to go to Willan, Aeterna Christi munera, performed by John Tuttle on the 1928 Welte-1964 Moeller organ of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, MN, recorded as part of the 1980 biennial meeting of the American Guild of Organists, the year of Willan's death.
Click for the entire programme including an introductory presentation on Willan's life and work by Michael Barone.
Now to listen to the Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue played by Frederick Swann on 2004 Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, click then click on Part III, then hold button and slide to 10:15 (10 minutes and 15 seconds).
Listen to Healey Willan, Prelude and Fugue in c, performed by Anne Wilson on the 1863 Walcker, 1949 Aeolian- Skinner organ of Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA. Click then click on Listen to Program. Then click and hold button and slide to 2:56 (2 minutes and 56 seconds).
Click to listen to the choir of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, where Willan worked, perform his O King, All Glorious (some ambient noise).
O King all glorious: O King all glorious, amid thy saintly company, who ever shall be praised, who overpasseth utterance. Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy holy Name. Leave us not, O our God, that in the day of judgement it may please thee to place us in the number of they Saints and blessed ones, O King most blessed. (Sarum anthem)
Click to go to Willan, Rise up my Fair One, performed by the Schola Cantorum of San Francisco.
Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear upon the earth.
The time of singing of birds is come.
Arise my love, my fair one, and come away.
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The anthem for evensong this coming Sunday is Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake, attributed to Richard Farrant. Below is the text and fourteen online versions.
Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake lay not our sins to our charge, but forgive that is past, and give us grace to amend our sinful lives: to decline from sin and incline to virtue, that we may walk in a perfect heart before thee now and evermore. Amen.
The anthem Lord, for thy tender mercies sake, often attributed to Richard Farrant, does not appear in any source under his name before the late 18th century and is now thought to be by the elder John Hilton. - Wikipedia
Performance by:
The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter conducting [listen]
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown conducting [NML] (info)
Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene conducting. [NML] (info)
The Schola Cantorum of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh [YouTube]
Fundacja Nowa Orchestra, Kameraina Choit, Richard Berkeley conducting [YouTube]
Marchmont St. Giles Church Choir Quartet [YouTube]
The John Fisher School Chamber Choir [YouTube]
The Georgia Boy Choir [YouTube]
The Sanctuary Choirs of the Church of Christ The King, Frankfurt, and Trinity Lutheran Church,Frankfurt. [YouTube]
Ecco [YouTube]
Hasmoritai [YouTube]
The Highlander Chorus [YouTube]
The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford; David Crown conducting [YouTube]
The Choirs of St Joseph Catholic Church; Macon, GA [YouTube]
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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut / Lord Jesus Christ, you highest good, Cantata 113, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt and Leusink.
Harold Copping, The Pharisee and the Publican