February 10, 2013



Jusepe de Ribera, Moses, Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Naples, 1638

Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God [NRSV, Exodus 34:29].


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes 
Transfiguration Sunday

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist

3) The Concert Calendar




This is the last Sunday on which Alleluia may be sung until Easter.  We have made it the choral emphasis of this coming Sunday's Eucharist.

Olivier Messiaen

Alléluias sereins d'une âme que désire le ciel /  Serene Alleluias from a Soul Longing for Heaven from Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension, is the organ prelude.

Click to go to a performance of Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension, by Olivier Latry at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.

 Ralph Vaughan Williams

Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol), this Sunday's Eucharist postlude, is an organ prelude by Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of three which Vaughan Williams composed that are based on Welsh hymn tunes.

Click to go to A Vaughan Williams Hymnal with 24 works by Vaughan Williams performed by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Richard Marlow conducting; Christopher Allsop and Andrew Lamb, organists at the 1972 Metzler Söhne organ.


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McGill University Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series
The Wolff organ of Redpath Hall
Admission Free

Fridays at 12:30 pm

February 8 - John Grew (programme)

February 15 - Jean-Willy Kunz

March 22  - Alexandra Fol

April 5 - João Segurado

April 12 - Hans-Ola Ericsson
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 Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: Nos. 14



Mass of Quinquagesima

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Stained Glass Window [YouTube]
  
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.  
 


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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for Online Listening
  
Bach Cantatas for Quinquagesima Sunday [Estomihi]:

  
Unknown Catalan Master, Christ and the Twelve, Barcelona, c. 1100

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe / Jesus took the twelve to himself, Cantata 22, with performances by Gardiner, Koopman, Leonhardt and Leusink.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn / You true God and son of David,   
Cantata 23, with performances by Gardiner, Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink and Richter.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott / Lord Jesus Christ, true God and man, Cantata 127, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt and Leusink.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Sehet! Wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem / See! We are going up to Jerusalem, Cantata 159, with performances by Gardiner, Ghielmi, HHerreweghe, Leonhardt, Leusink and Ristenpart.