Workshop of Rembrandt, Samuel and Eli, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, c. 1630
Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and with the people [NRSV, 1 Sam. 2:26].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Sunday after Christmas Day
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist
3) The Concert Calendar
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist
3) The Concert Calendar
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Luca della Robbia, Cantoria (detail), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence 1431-38
The organ voluntaries at Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are three versions of In dulci jubilo by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Click to read about the origin and history of In Dulci Jubilo.
Click to go to a variey of performances of In dulci jubilo.
Click to read about the origin and history of In Dulci Jubilo.
Click to go to a variey of performances of In dulci jubilo.
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Video performance by Rachel Harnisch, soprano; Sonja Philippin, soprano (echo); Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano; Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Evangelist); Christian Immler, bass; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Peter Dijkstra, conducting. Recorded at Herkulessaal, Residenz München, 2010 [YouTube]
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Fra Angelico, Presentation (detail), Museo di San Marco, Florence, 1442
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Martin Schongauer, Nativity (detail), Staatliche Museen, Berlin, c.1480
The Mass setting and Comunion motet are the work of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): O Magnum Mysterium. Click to go to O Magnum Mysterium by a number of different composers.
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Bartolome Murillo, Adoration of the Shepherds, Museo del Prado, Madrid, c.1650
The Introit for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday, is the second movement, Break forth, o
beauteous heavenly light, from the Second Day of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, The Nativity, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1445
Online performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, with versions conducted by Georg Christoph Biller / Riccardo Chailly / Diego Fasolis / Phillip Ledger / Karl Münchinger)
Cantata I for the 1st Day of Christmas
Cantata II for the 2nd Day of Christmas
Cantata III for the 3rd Day of Christmas
Cantata IV for New Year's Day
Cantata V for the Sunday after New Year
Cantata VI for the Feast of Epiphany
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a video performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, to begin their year long Cantata Pilgrimage. Soprano: Claron McFadden; Alto: Bernarda Fink; Tenor: Christoph Genz; Bass: Dietrich Henschel. [YouTube]
Video performance by Rachel Harnisch, soprano; Sonja Philippin, soprano (echo); Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano; Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Evangelist); Christian Immler, bass; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Peter Dijkstra, conducting. Recorded at Herkulessaal, Residenz München, 2010 [YouTube]
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No. 4
Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
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Bach Cantata 28 for the First Sunday after Christmas Day:
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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende / Praise God! Now the year comes to an end, Cantata 28, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.