Willem Drost, The Unmerciful Servant, The Wallace Collection, London, c. 1660
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 11, 2011
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.
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The introit for evensong this coming Sunday is Thomas Tomkins, O pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee. (Psalm 122:6)
Thomas Tomkins, O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, performed by the Wells College Choir [YouTube]
St. Mary's Gate, Worcester, (later known as Edgar
Tower)
Through which Tomkins would have walked on his frequent
trips to London
Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656)
Click to read about Thomas
Tomkins in Wikipedia.
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Performance by The MacKay Choral Society [YouTube]
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Michiel van der Borch, Death of Absalom,
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1332
Click to read about and listen to several versions of Thomas Tomkins, When
David heard.
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Thomas Tomkins, Funeral Sentences by the Oxford Camerata; Laurence Cummings, organ; Jeremy Summerly conducting. [YouTube]
Thomas Tomkins, Magnificat from The Fifth Service by the Oxford Camerata; Laurence Cummings, organ; Jeremy Summerly conducting. [YouTube]
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Too much I once lamented, While love my heart
tormented, Fa la la ... Alas and Ay me sat I wringing; Now chanting go, and
singing. Fa la la ...
Performance by Anna Molnár and Viktor Magyaróvári [YouTube]
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Good Shepherd, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome,
2nd-3rd century
Thomas Tomkins, My
shepherd is the living Lord [text], by the Worcester Cathedral choir; Raymond Johnston, organist; Donald Hunt conducting.
[YouTube]
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Click to go to works by Thomas Tomkins performed by Rostislaw Wygranienko: A Sad Pavan for these Distracted Times; The Hunting
Galliard; Voluntary in C (Ferrara); Voluntary in C
(Breitenburg).
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Works of Thomas
Tomkins performed by the Tallis Scholars,
Peter Phillips conducting:
Third or "Great"
Service:
Te Deum [NML] (info)
Jubilate [NML] (info)
Magnificat [NML] (info)
Nunc dimittis [NML] (info)
Anthems:
Then David mourned [NML] (info)
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom [NML] (info)
Woe is me that I am constrained [NML] (info)
Be strong and of a good courage [NML] (info)
O sing unto the Lord a new song [NML] (info)
O God, the proud are risen against me [NML] (info)
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Thomas Tomkins, Songs, performed by the Budapest Tomkins Vocal Ensemble; Janos Dobra
conducting [NML] (info)
The fauns and satyrs tripping
Phyllis, now cease to move me
Phyllis, yet see him dying
Come, shepherds, sing with me Phyllis, now cease to move me
Phyllis, yet see him dying
To the shady woods
See, see the sheperd's Queen
O let me live for true love
O let me die for true love
Oyez! Has any found a lad?
Weep no more, thou sorry Boy
Yet again, as soon revived
Was ever wretch tormented?
Music divine
It is my well-beloved's voice
Cloris, when as I woo
Too much I once lamented
Woe is me
Turn unto the ord
When David heard
Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers
Fusca, in thy starry eyes
When I observe
Oft did I marie
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Tomkins: Third Service, Anthems and Voluntaries
performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford; David Burchell organ;
Edward Higginbottom conducting [CML] (info)
liner notes with lyrics [CML] (info)
Third Service "Great": Te Deum
In nomine Third Service "Great": Jubilate
Third Service "Great": Magnificat
Voluntary for Keyboard in G major
Third Service "Great": Nunc dimittis
Voluntary for Keyboard in C major
Know you not
Voluntary for Keyboard in A minor
O Lord, let me know mine end
O that the salvation were given
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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele /Praise the Lord, my soul, Cantata 69a, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman and Suzuki.