Robert Walter Weir, Moses views the promised land, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,1860-5
The Lord said to Moses, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there [NRSV, Deut. 34:4].”
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
October 23, 2011
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
3) The Concert Calendar
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The Annual Choir Fundraiser is Friday, November 4, at 7:30 pm. How can I keep from singing?, an evening of some of the best loved anthems and hymns from the classical age of choral music. Works by Bach, Fauré, Handel, Gibbons, Mozart and many others. Click here for complete information.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sicut Cervus, is the Communion motet for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday.
Deer, San Clemente Apse, Rome, 12th cent.
Click to read what Timothy Dickey of AllMusic has to say of Sicut Cervus.
Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum:
ita desiderat anima mea, ad te, Deus!
So longs my soul for thee, O God.
Listen to a number of performances:
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Stephen Darlington conducting [CML] (info)
Cappella Musicale della Basilica di San Marco, Milano; Giovanni Viannini conducting [YouTube]
Sexteto Cantabile, Betty Rodríguez conducting [YouTube]
Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene conducting [listen]
London Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner conducting [musicMe] (info)
Regensburg Cathedral Choir, Georg Ratzinger conducting [NML] (info)
Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens conducting [NML] (info)
Amor Artis Chorus, Johannes Somary conducting [NML] (info)
London Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner conducting [musicMe] (info)
Regensburg Cathedral Choir, Georg Ratzinger conducting [NML] (info)
Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens conducting [NML] (info)
Amor Artis Chorus, Johannes Somary conducting [NML] (info)
San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir, David Stein conducting [listen]
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Le FESTIVAL DES COULEURS
de l'orgue français
Seventeenth Season - Autumn 2011
The Sundays of October, 2011, at 3:00 pm
October 23: Nicolas Alexandre Marcotte
October 30: Jens Korndörfer
The recitals are free.
Chapel of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal
2065 Sherbrooke West
(Métro Guy-Concordia, bus 24)
Bach Cantatas for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
Andrey Rublev, Christ in Majesty, Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, 1408
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn / Lord Christ, the only son of God, Cantata 96, with performances by Kuijken, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gott soll allein mein Herze haben / God alone should possess my heart, Cantata 169, with performances by Harnoncourt, Leusink, Menuhin, Sándor and Scholl.