April 15, 2012

 
Hendrick Terbrugghen, Doubting Thomas, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1604
 
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
2nd Sunday of Easter
April 15, 2012

Click to go immediately to:


1) The Music Programme Homepage


2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong


3) The Concert Calendar. 


Hans Leo Hassler

The Mass setting, Missa octava a 8, and the two motets at Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday, Halleluja – Laudem dicite and Quia vidisti me, are all the work of Hans Leo Hassler.

Click to go to the Naxos Music Library and a double CD of Hassler's sacred and secular music [BNQ; BM] (info)

A CD of Hassler's music by the Regensburger Domspatzen, Georg Ratzinger conducting. [BNQ; BM] (info)


And a CD by the Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir, Reinhold Kammler conducting. [BNQ; BM] (info)



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Music Orbium, directed by Patrick Wedd, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B-minor, on Sunday, April 22, at 7:30 pm, at l'Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, 1201, rue de la Visitation, Montréal.

Hélène Brunet, soprano; Stéphanie Manias, soprano; Claudine Ledoux, mezzo-soprano; Philippe Gagné, tenor; Normand Richard, bass; and the Ensemble Caprice.

Click for more information and the possibility of purchasing tickets online.
 
Get ready by listening and watching on YouTube from the Marienmünster in Diessen am Ammersee, Bavaria, a complete performance of the Bach B-minor Mass by Gundula Janowitz, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; Horst R. Laubenthal, tenor; Hermann Prey, bass; Münchener Bach Orchester und Chor; Karl Richter conducting. [YouTube] [text]

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William Blake, Christ Appearing to His Disciples After the Resurrection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1795

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß / A heart that knows its Jesus living, Cantata 134, for Easter Tuesday, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt and Leusink.

 Duccio di Buoninsegna, Doubting Thomas, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ / Keep in memory Jesus Christ, Cantata 67, for Quasimodogeniti (2nd Sunday of Easter) with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink, Richter and Suzuki.