July 1, 2012

  Paolo Veronese, Christ and the Woman with an Issue of Blood, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1565-70


Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes [NRSV, Mark 5:30]?"


Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
July 1, 2012

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3) The Concert Calendar



 Healey Willan

This coming Sunday, Canada Day, the organ and choral music is by Canadian composers, in particular Healey Willan.

Click to go to a wide selection of music by Healey Willan on YouTube, including Willan playing the organ himself.

A brief biography of Healey Willan.  

Read the biographical details and incisive analysis of Willan's work in Patrick Wedd's programme notes for his Naxos recording of Healey Willan's Organ Works performed on the Casavant organ of St-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal.

 Wedd's recording is available to borrow from [BNQ].
It is also available for free online listening from the Naxos Music Library. [BNQ; BM(info)
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The organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are by Gerald BalesClick to hear his Variants performed by the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, Philippe Ménard, conducting in the Centenary United Church, Hamilton, Ontario.

Gerald Bales
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The Canticles for evensong this coming Sunday are from Derek Holman, Service in fClick to listen to his Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A performed by the St. Barnabas Anglican Church Choir, Ottawa.




Derek Holman


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Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. James United Church, Montreal, for the Summer 2012.




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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56, No. 30

Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 3-manual, 1888 Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
 
Mass of the 5th Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Alleluia No. 2  [YouTube]
 
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.

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Bach Cantatas for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity:


 Pieter Breugel the Elder, The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, Museo Nazionale di Capomonte, Naples, 1568
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte / An unstained character, Cantata 24, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink and Richter.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ / I call to you, Lord Jesus Christ, Cantata 177, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Linde and Leusink.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe / Merciful heart of eternal love, Cantata 185, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, and Leusink.