They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him [NRSV, Mark 7:32].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 9, 2012
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar.
Healey Willan
(1880 - 1968)
The organ voluntaries and motets at evensong this coming Sunday are all compositions by Healey Willan.
Click to go to a wide selection of music by Healey Willan on YouTube, including Willan playing the organ himself.
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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.
A Review of Patrick Wedd's recording of Healey Willan's Organ Works.
It is also available for free online listening from the Naxos Music Library. [BNQ; BM] (info)
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Performance of Missa Brevis No. 11, Sanctae Johannis Baptistae, performed by the Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison directing; Matthew Larkin , organ: Kyrie [BNQ; BM] - Sanctus [BNQ; BM] - Benedictus [BNQ; BM] - Agnus Dei [BNQ; BM] (info)
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Click to go to Willan, Aeterna Christi munera, performed by John Tuttle on the 1928 Welte-1964 Moeller organ of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, MN, recorded as part of the 1980 biennial meeting of the American Guild of Organists, the year of Willan's death.
Click for the entire programme including an introductory presentation on Willan's life and work by Michael Barone.
Listen to Healey Willan, Fugue in e, from Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue, performed by Gillian Weir on the 1952 Aeolian-Skinner organ of the First Churchof Christ, Scientist, Boston. Click then click on Listen to Program. Then click and hold button and slide to 8:08 (Eight minutes and 8 seconds).
Listen to William Chouinard perform the entire Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue on the 1927 Casavant / 2001 Schantz organ of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minnesota. Click then click on Listen to Program. Then hold button and slide to 38:47 (38 minutes and 47 seconds).
Now to listen to the Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue played by Frederick Swann on 2004 Glatter-Götz/Rosalesorgan in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, click then click on Part III, then hold button and slide to 10:15 (10 minutes and 15 seconds).
Listen to Healey Willan, Prelude & Fugue in c, performed by Anne Wilson on the 1863 Walcker, 1949 Aeolian- Skinner organ of Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA. Click then click on Listen to Program. Then click and hold button and slide to 2:56 (2 minutes and 56 seconds).
Click to listen to the choir of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, where Willan worked, perform his O King, All Glorious (some ambient noise).
O King all glorious,
amid thy saintly company, who ever shall be praised, who overpasseth
utterance. Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by
thy holy Name. Leave us not, O our God, that in the day of judgement it
may please thee to place us in the number of they Saints and blessed
ones, O King most blessed. (Sarum anthem)
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Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 3-manual 1888 Puget organ of Nôtre Dame de la Dalbade, Toulouse
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
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Bach Cantatas for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity:
Alexander Master, Leper Giving Thanks, Koninklijke Bibliotheek the Hague 1430
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich / Who gives thanks praises me, Cantata 17, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe / There is nothing healthy in my body, Cantata 25, with performances by Gardiner, Geiser, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink, and Suzuki.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesu, der du meine Seele / Jesus, by whom my soul, Cantata 78, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Thomas.