August 28, 2011


James Tissot, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; Brooklyn Museum, 1886-96
But Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things [NRSV, Matthew 16:23]." 

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
August 28, 2011

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2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.

All four organ voluntaries this coming Sunday are the work of Johann Pachelbel.



 Johann Pachelbel
1653 - 1706



Read about Johann Pachelbel.

This is what Wikipedia has to say.


[We7] (info) Click to go to the entire disc of Olivier Vernet performing works of Pachelbel on the Remy Mahler organ, Baïgorry.





[We7] (info) Click to go to Matthew Owens performing the works of Johann Pachelbel on the Ahrend organ of the University of Edinburgh (vol. 1).

Click to go to vol. 2.


[musicMe] (info) Click to go to Wolfgang Rübsam performing the works of Johann Pachelbel on the Holzhey organ of the former Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul, Weissenau.


Performance of the complete organ works of Johann Pachelbel by Joseph Payne on a number of different organs. [NML] (info

YouTube has a number of performances of the Canon in D.  Here is a version performed by les Solistes du Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Chef d'orchestre: Jean Tubéry.

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George Frideric Handel, Lord, I trust thee [Vox Amabilis: text/ YouTube], is the Communion motet for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday.

Below is the text and 10 versions of Handel's Dixit Dominus


Hendrik van Balen, The Holy Trinity, Sint-Jacobskerk, Antwerp, 1620


George Frideric Handel: Dixit Dominus



The psalm setting (Psalm 110, Vulgate 109) Dixit DominusHWV 232, was completed by George Frideric Handel in April 1707 while living in Italy. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. It is most likely that the work was first  performed on 16 July 1707 in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto, under the patronage of the Colonna family (Wikipedia).  


Click to read brief programme notes by Barry Creasy


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[musicMe] (info) Performance by Michael Chance (Countertenor), William Kendall (Tenor), Henry Herford (Bass), Isobel Buchanan (Soprano), Ann Mackay (Soprano), The King's College Choir, Cambridge, and the English Chamber OrchestraStephen Cleobury conducting.


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[musicMe] (info) Performance by Gillian Ross (Soprano), Julian Clarkson (Bass), Robert Burt (Tenor), Angela Kazimierczuk (Soprano), Donna Deam (Soprano), Katherine Fuge (Soprano), Charles Humphries (Countertenor), Richard Roberts (Countertenor), Rory O'Connor (Tenor), English Baroque Soloists,  Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner conducting.


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Alastair Thompson (Tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (Bass), Charles Brett (Counter Tenor), Felicity Palmer (Soprano), Richard Morton (Tenor), John Angelo Messana (Counter Tenor), Margaret Marshall (Soprano), Nicholas Kraemer (Harpsichord), Malcolm Hicks (Organ), Monteverdi Orchestra,  Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner conducting.

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[musicMe] (info) Performance by Philippe Jaroussky (Countertenor), Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano), Laurent Naouri (Baritone), Natalie Dessay (Soprano), Toby Spence (Tenor), Le Concert D'Astrée,
Emmanuelle Haïm conducting.

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[We7] (info) Performance of Julienne Baird (soprano), Drew Minter (countertenor), The American Boychoir, the Albemarle Consort of Voices, The Eighteenth Century Ensemble, James Litton conducting.

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[musicMe] (info) Performance by Marcos Pujol (Bass), Kevin McLean-Mair (Tenor), Patrick Henckens (Tenor),
Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano), Sara Fulgoni (Alto), Annick Massis (Soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre,  Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski conducting.

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[musicMe] (info) Performance by Arleen Augér (Soprano), Diana Montague (Soprano), John Mark Ainsley (Tenor), Lynne Dawson (Soprano), Leigh Nixon (Tenor), Simon Birchall (Bass), the Choir and Orchestra of Westminster AbbeySimon Preston conducting.

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Performance of Youn-cho Cho (soprano), Hyun-su Seok (soprano), David DQ Lee (countertenor), Ji-uk Kim (tenor), Jin-sam Kim (bass), Camerata Antiqua Seoul, Daejeon Philharmonic Choir, Winfried Toll conducting.

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Performance by Dame Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone), Robert Tear (Tenor),
Teresa Zylis-Gara (Soprano), English Chamber OrchestraCambridge King's College Choir, Sir David Willcocks conducting.


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Performance by The Choir of St Mary's, Maldon (Essex, UK).

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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.



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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott / Take from us, you faithful God, Cantata 101, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Rilling.

Raymond Balze, Jesus chasing the moneychangers from the temple, Musée Ingres, Montauban

August 21, 2011


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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2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.





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"
  1. verse 1 cantus firmus in soprano
  2. verse 2 cantus firmus in tenor
  3. 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 
          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:

    Psalm 6 [listen]

    Psalm 7 [listen]


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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."
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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.




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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 GardinerHarnoncourt, Herreweghe, LeusinkRichter, and Rilling.

Unknown author from Jerom Nadal, Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, The Shrewd Manager, 1593