March 11, 2012


Marc Chagall, Moses Receiving the Ten Commandments, Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice, 1960s




Then God spoke all these words: "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery [NRSV, Exodus 20:1-2a]." 




The Third Sunday of Lent 
March 11, 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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Henry Pucell, Thou knowest Lord, from the Funeral Music for Queen Mary is the introit for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday.


Queen Mary II
Henry Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary


Read about Queen Mary II of England.
                                                  
Read about Henry Purcell (1659-95).   
   
Read about Funeral Music for Queen Mary. 

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Henry Purcell's complete music for the funeral of Queen Mary sung by the Winchester Cathedral Choir with the Brandenburg Consort and the Baroque Brass of London, David Hill, conducting [musicMe playlist]:   
                                                                                           
The Queen's Funeral March;

Canzona; Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets (text); 
                                                                               
The Queen's Funeral March (Recession);

Man that is born of a woman (text);     
                                                                                          
In the midst of Life (text); 

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets (text);  
                                                                                                    
Rejoice in the Lord always (text);   
                                                     
Remember not, Lord, our offences (text);

Voluntary in c; 

Give sentence with me, O God (text);
                                                         
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes (text);
                                               
O, I'm sick of life (text);

A Double Verse in G;    
                    
My beloved spake (text);
                                                               
Hear my prayer, O Lord and let my crying come unto Thee.; 
O God, Thou art my God (text).

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Extract of Henry Purcell, Music for the funeral of Queen Mary (1694).  Performance of Sopranos: Céline Scheen, Hana Blažíková, Alice Foccroulle; Countertenors: Pascal Bertin, Jean-Christophe Clair, Jean-Michel Fumas; Tenors: Phillipe Froeliger, Thibault Lenaerts, Renaud Tripathi; Basses: Jean-Claude Sarragosse, Lionel Meunier, Malcolm Bothwell; La Fenice; Jean Tubéry conducting [YouTube: Part I; Part II] 

Click to listen to the Fundacja Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna Choir, Richard Bylicki Berkeley, conducting, perform Thou knowest Lord.

Click to Listen to the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, sing Hear my prayer; listen as well to O God, Thou art my God (text).

Click to Listen to the Ad Hoc Singers peform Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes(text).

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Walter/Wendy Carlos reworked the Funeral March for the title music of Stanley Kubrick's film, The Clockwork Orange.  (Carlos was then on the verge of sexual reassignment.) [listen]


Click to hear the Funeral March linked to the finale, Death and Baptism, of The Godfather.

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Thomas Morley, Nolo mortem peccatoris, is the Communion motet for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday.

 Thomas Morley

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 [BNQ; BM] (info)

The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter conducting [BNQ; BM] (info)

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford [BNQ;BM] (info)

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


March 9: William Porter
March 16: John Grew
March 23: Hans-Ola Ericsson 



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Luca Signorelli, Scourging of Christ, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, c. 1480
Krysztof Penderecki, St. Luke Passion 

Performance by Izabela Klosinska, soprano; Krysztof Kolberger, reader; Adam Kruszewski, baritone; Romuald Tesarowicz, bass; Warsaw Boys Choir; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra; Antoni Wit conducting. [BNQ; BM]  (info)  Open booklet and go to page 10 for text. Also on [YouTube].






Master of the Strauss Madonna, Crucifixion, Groeninge Museum, Bruges, c. 1445

Click to go to Krysztof Penderecki, Stabat Mater, performed by the National Philharmonic Choir Warsaw with the composer conducting.


Krysztof Penderecki, Symphony No. 7 "The Seven Gates of Jerusalem"

Text in Latin (6th movement spoken Hebrew) with English translation

Performance of Aga Mikolaj, soprano; Olga Pasichnyk, soprano; Wieslaw Ochman, tenor; Ewa Marciniec, alto; Romuald Tesarowicz, bass; Boris Carmeli, spoken vocal; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir; Antoni Wit conducting. [BNQ; BM] info.  Also on [YouTube: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V; Part VI; Part VII; Part VIII; Part IX]