Giotto di Bondone, Marriage at Cana, Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padua, c.1305
Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him [NRSV, John 2:11].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
2nd Sunday after Epiphany
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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Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Eric Whitacre composed the anthem that will be sung at Choral Evensong this coming Sunday.
Lux Aurumque (literally, Light and Gold) is based on an English language poem by Edward Esch (Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly, to the new-born baby.) translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri (Lux, calida gravisque pura velut aurum, et canunt angeli moliter, modo natum).
Click for your choice of at least 69 different renditions of Luz Aurumque on YouTube.
Read about Eric Whitaker in Wikipedia. And in My Space where one can listen to audio clips.
For further reading on Eric Whitacre:
http://www.ericwhitacre.com/home.html
http://www.waltonmusic.com/whitacre.html
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Eric%20Whitacre
http://www.windband.org/foothill/pgm_note/notes_wx.htm#Whitacre
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No. 9.
Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans
Mass of the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany
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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for online listening.
Bach Cantatas for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany:
Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Wedding at Cana, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid / Ah God, how many a heartache, Cantata 3, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen / My sighs, my tears, Cantata 13, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and Richter.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? / My God, how long, ah how long? Cantata 155, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.
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Click to go to Stabat Mater for Online Listening.
Adriaen Isenbrant, Our Lady of Sorrows, O.L. Vrouwkerk, Bruges, Early 16th cent.
New Stabat Maters:
Click to go to Antonio Bonocini, Stabat Mater, by the St. John's Choir, Cambridge, George Guest conducting and by the Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting.
Click to go to Claudio Casciolini, Stabat Mater, by the St. Martin Chamber Choir, Timothy Krueger conducting.
Click to go to Valdimir Martynov, Stabat Mater, by OPUS POSTH Ensemble, Tatiana Grindenko conducting.
Click to go to Franz Schubert, Stabat Mater, by the Monteverdi Choir and l’Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner conducting; and by the National Taiwan University Chorus.