February 12, 2012

Rembrandt van Rijn, Jesus heals a leper, Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, 1657-60

 Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean [NRSV, Mark 1:41]!"

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

February 12, 2012

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.

3) The Concert Calendar

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Patrick Wedd, director of music, will give a recital on the Wilhelm organ of Christ Church Cathedral this coming Saturday, February 11, at 4:30 pm.  He will perform works by Stanford, Fricker, Statham, Grainger, and Whitlock.  Admission free / voluntary contribution.

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Dr Joseph Parry in 1875

The organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist are both variations on the hymn tune Aberystwyth.

Click to read about the town of Aberystwyth in North Wales.

Click to read about Joseph Parry and listen to his hymn tune Aberystwyth.

Charles Wesley, Jesus Lover of My Soul, sung to Parry’s tune Aberysthwyth, with text. [YouTube]

Healey Willan, Prelude on Aberystwyth, performed by Patrick Wedd at the 1915 Casavant Frères organ of the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal.  [BNQ; BM] (info)

David Evan Thomas, Prelude on the Welsh Hymn: Aberystwyth, performed by Marilyn Biery on the 1927 E.M. Skinner; 1963 Aeolian-Skinner organ of the Cathedral of St. Paul, Saint Paul, MN – Click here, then click on “0818 Part 1,” then hold button and slide to 6:44 (6 minutes and 44 seconds).

Don Hannah, Variations on Aberystwyth, premiere, performed by Paul Hesselink at the 2004 Beckerath organ in the Doc Rando Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV.  Click here, then click on “0918 Hour 2,” then hold button and slide to 28:44 (28 minutes and 44 seconds).

 Edwin T. Childs, Hymn Fantasy: Jesus, lover of my soul, performed by Brenda Heck Portman at the 1992 Schantz organ of College Church, Wheaton, IL.  (Segues into O God, our help in ages past.)  Click here, then click on “0918 hour 2," then hold button and slide to 20:11 (20 minutes and 11 seconds).

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Household Music: No. 3 Aberystwyth: Variations, performed by the Northern Sinfonia (Peter Francomb, horn), Richard Hickox conducting [BNQ; BM] (info)

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The organ voluntaries for evensong last Sunday were both composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Presentation of the Lord in the Temple) and were part of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book).

Click to read about the Orgelbüchlein.

Click to listen to the entire Orgelbüchlein by James Kibbie at the 1717 Trost organ, St. Walpurgis, Großengottern, Germany

Performance by Ullrich Böhme at the Bach Organ of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. [musicMe]

Performance by Bernard Lagacé at the 1961 Beckerath organ of the Immaculée-Conception Church in Montreal [BNQ; BM] (info)

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McGill free Friday organ recitals at 12:30 pm on the Wolff organ of Redpath Hall:

February 10: Kevin Komisaruk  programme 
February 17: Jean-Willy Kunz
March 2: Matthew Provost
March 9: William Porter
March 16: John Grew
March 23: Hans-Ola Ericsson