Luis Tristán de Escamilla, St. Monica,Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1616
All Souls / Rembrance Sunday
November 6, 2011
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This coming Sunday Gabriel Fauré, Requiem, op. 48, will be sung at Choral Eucharist.
Click to go to an online performance by Simon Estes (Bass), Lucia Popp (Soprano), the Leipzig Radio Chorus, the Dresden Staatskapelle, Sir Colin Davis conducting.
Click to go to an online performance by James Morris (Bass Baritone), Judith Blegen (Soprano), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Robert Shaw conducting.
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Patrick Wedd to perform Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-47) on the Wilhelm organ of Christ Church Cathedral,
Montreal, on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at 1:00 pm. Admission free /
Voluntary contribution appreciated.
Praeludium und Fuge c-Moll,
op. 37.1 (1837)
Praeludium und Fuge G-Dur,
op. 37.2 (1837)
Praeludium und Fuge d-Moll,
op 37.3 (1837)
Thema mit Variationen (1844)
Sonate 4 B-Dur, op. 65.4
(1845)
Allegro con brio
Andante religioso
Allegretto
Allegro maestoso e vivace
The complete organ works of Felix
Mendelssohn performed by Ulrik
Spang-Hanssen on the Stumm-organ of the Pauluskirche in Kirchheimbolanden,
Germany, are available for free online listening by the Naxos Music Library.
Cardholders of La Bibliothèque de Montréal, ready to open their
account online, click here: [BM];
cardholders of La Bibliothèque nationale du Québec click here: [BNQ].
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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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Musica Orbium
Sunday November 13, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Sunday November 13, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Remembrance
Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Dan Locklair - Gloria in excelsis, from Brief Mass Paul Patterson - Kyrie and Gloria Healey Willan - Kyrie Eleison, from Missa Brevis 5 Musica Orbium Patrick Wedd, Artistic Director Stéphanie Manias, soprano Dion Mazarolle, baritone Anne-marie Denoncourt, piano Pamela Reimer, piano Christ Church Cathedral 1444 Avenue Union Montréal, QC H3A 2B8 |
In honour of Remembrance Day, we celebrate the living and remember those who have passed, through profound, eternal works composed by our contemporaries and those who have gone before them. From Willan’s stunning polyphonic Kyrie, to Locklair’s dynamic illumination of the Gloria. From the wild, jazzy rhythms and uninhibited outcries of Patterson’s striking Kyrie and Gloria to Brahms’ profound and majestic masterpiece, with which he changed the traditional ‘mass for the dead’ to point out a path of hope for mankind. We present the version for choir, soloists, and piano four hands as arranged by Brahms himself.
Click to go to the Musica Orbium website to order tickets.
The 5th Anniversary of the Bach Festival Montreal will take place from November 8 to November 20, 2011.
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On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, November 9, 10 and 11, The Montreal Symphony Orchestra will perform Johann Sebastian Bach, Saint John Passion. Click for details.
Click to go to ten free online performances.