Resurrection, Chora Church, Istanbul, early 16th cent.
"I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star [NRSV, Revelation 22:16b]."
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist, Eucharistie chantée and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar.
The Communion Motet at Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday will be François Couperin, Motet pour le jour de Pâques (Motet for Easter Sunday). It will by sung by sopranos Cynthia Gates and Meagan Zantingh with Patrick Wedd playing the organ. [text]. Listen to a performance by Emmy Kirby, Judith Nelson and Christopher Hogwood. [YouTube]
The organ voluntaries for L'Eucharistie chantée this coming Sunday are both from Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension.
L'Ascension ("The Ascension") is a piece for orchestra, composed by Olivier Messiaen in 1932-33. Messiaen described it as "4 meditations for orchestra".
The orchestral piece is in four brief sections:
Olivier Messiaen: L'Ascension, Four meditations for orchestra:
Performance of Leopold Stowkowski and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra [Grooveshark]
Performance of l'Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Wung Chung conducting [musicMe]
Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension, Four meditations for organ:
Click on the name to go to performances by Charles Krigbaum, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Thomas Trotter and Olivier Latry.
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist, Eucharistie chantée and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar.
François Couperin
The Communion Motet at Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday will be François Couperin, Motet pour le jour de Pâques (Motet for Easter Sunday). It will by sung by sopranos Cynthia Gates and Meagan Zantingh with Patrick Wedd playing the organ. [text]. Listen to a performance by Emmy Kirby, Judith Nelson and Christopher Hogwood. [YouTube]
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The organ voluntaries for L'Eucharistie chantée this coming Sunday are both from Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension.
Patrick Wedd will perform the entire Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension, on the 1980 Wilhelm organ, on Ascension Thursday,
May 9, at 1:00 pm, following the 12:15 liturgy. Admission free.
Continue below to listen online to orchestral and organ versions of l'Ascension.
L'Ascension ("The Ascension") is a piece for orchestra, composed by Olivier Messiaen in 1932-33. Messiaen described it as "4 meditations for orchestra".
The orchestral piece is in four brief sections:
- Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père ("The majesty of Christ demanding its glory of the Father")
- Alleluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel ("Serene alleluias of a soul that longs for heaven")
- Alleluia sur la trompette, alleluia sur la cymbale ("Alleluia on the trumpet, alleluia on the cymbal")
- Prière du Christ montant vers son Père ("Prayer of Christ ascending towards his Father")
Olivier Messiaen: L'Ascension, Four meditations for orchestra:
Performance of Leopold Stowkowski and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra [Grooveshark]
Performance of l'Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Wung Chung conducting [musicMe]
Organ version:
In 1933-34, Messiaen made a version for solo organ. The first, second and fourth movements are arrangements of the orchestral pieces, but Messiaen composed a new third movement, Transports de joie d'une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne ("Ecstasies of a soul before the glory of Christ, which is its own glory"), usually just known as Transports de joie.Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension, Four meditations for organ:
Click on the name to go to performances by Charles Krigbaum, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Thomas Trotter and Olivier Latry.
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: Nos. 24
Performance on the 4-manual 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ of the former Abbey of Saint-Ouen, Rouen
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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for Online Listening.
István Dorffmeister, Pentecost,
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest, 1782
Bach Cantatas for Exaudi [Sunday after Ascension, 6th Sunday after Easter]
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun / They will banish you, Cantata 44, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Koopman, Leusink and Richter.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun / They will banish you, Cantata 44, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Koopman, Leusink and Richter.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun / They will put you under a ban, Cantata 183, with performances by Coin, Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.