September 22, 2013

Raphael, St. Paul preaching in Athens, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1515

For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth
[NRSV, 1 Timothy 2:7].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
 

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
 


Palestrina


This coming Sunday at the Choral Eucharists the Mass setting and motets are the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Below is a wide selection of Palestrina's choral works.

Masses



Missa Assumpta est Maria:
Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting [musicMe]



Missa Dum Complerentur:
Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]
Motet [text] - Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]



Missa Papae Marcelli:
Click to read about the Missa Papae Marcelli.
Performance of the Westminster Abbey Choir directed by Simon Preston  [musicMe]
Performance of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks [musicMe]
Click to watch and listen to Pope John XXIII intone the Gloria which the Cappella Sistina sings from Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli followed by Pope John singing the collect (much ambient noise).



Missa pro defunctis:
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]



Missa Sine Nomine:
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of the London Choir of the Carmelite Priory, John McCarthy conducting [musicMe] (info)



Missa Tu es Petrus:
Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]
Motet [text] - Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]



Missa Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la:
Performance of the Choeur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson conducting. [musicMe]


Motets



At te levavi oculos meos
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]



Ave Maria
Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting [musicMe]



Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs)
Trahe me [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]
Nigra sum, sed formosa [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]
Surge, propera [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]
Surge, amica mea [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]
Quam pulchra es [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]
Veni, dilecte mi [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]



Dies sanctificatus [text]
Performance of the Coro sell’Academia Filarmonica Romana, Pablo Colino conducting [YouTube]



Dum Complerentur [text]
Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]



Ecce, nunc benedicite Dominum a 12 [text]
Performance of the Choeur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson conducting. [musicMe]



Fundamenta eius
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]



Gaude, barbera [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]



Gaude gloriosa [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]



Jesu, rex admirabilis [text]
Performaance of The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner conducting [YouTube]



Jubilate Deo
Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Theobald Schrems conducting. [musicMe]



Laudate Domine, omnes gentes
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Theobald Schrems conducting. [musicMe]



Magnificat primi toni
Performance of the Choir of King’s College, Sir David Willcocks conducting [musicMe]
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of Voices8 [YouTube]



Nos autem gloriari
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]



O beata et gloriosa trinitas
Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting [musicMe]



O bone Jesu [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]
Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting [musicMe]



Peccantem me quotidie [text]
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting [musicMe]



Stabat mater [text]
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of The Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Sir David Willcocks conducting [musicMe]
Performance of The Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott conducting [YouTube]
Performance of Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown conducting [YouTube]
Performance of The Sixteen, Harry Christophers conducting [BNQ] (info)



Sicut cervus [text]
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting [musicMe]
Performance of the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Stephen Darlington conducting [CML] (info)
Performance of the Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell conducting [CML] (info)
Performance of the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Gaël De Kerret conducting [CML] (info)
Performance of the Cappella Musicale della Basilica di San Marco, Milano; Giovanni Viannini conducting [YouTube]
Performance of the Sexteto Cantabile, Betty Rodríguez conducting [YouTube]
Performance of the Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene conducting [listen]
Performance of the London Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner conducting [musicMe] (info)
Performance of the Regensburg Cathedral Choir, Georg Ratzinger conducting [NML] (info)

Performance of the Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens conducting [NML] (info)

Performance of the Amor Artis Chorus, Johannes Somary conducting [NML] (info)


Sicut lilium inter spinas [text]
Performance of The Sixteen, Harry Christophers conducting. [musicMe]



Tribus miraculis [text]
Performance of the Choir of St. Gregory [listen]



Tribulatione civitatem
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]



Tu es Petrus [text]
Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]
Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]
Performance of the Westminster Abbey Choir directed by Simon Preston  [musicMe]


Hymns



Pange lingua: [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]



O Salutaris hostia [text]
Performance of the Choir of St. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia [YouTube]


Salve Regina [text]
Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]



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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56, No. 45.



 
  


Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 3-manual 1888 Puget organ of Nôtre Dame de la Dalbade, Toulouse 

Mass of the 18th Sunday after Pentecost


Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Alleluiatic Choral No. 3  [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.



Illustrator of Petrus Comestor's 'Bible Historiale,' The  Man with Dropsy and the Ox, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1372

Bach Cantatas for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity: 

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wer sich selbst erhöhet / Who exalts himself, Cantata 47, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Kuijken and Leusink.   

 

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost / Ah, dear Christians, be consoled, Cantata 114, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and  Rilling.
 

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens / Bring to the Lord the glory of his name, Cantata 148, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink, Richter, Rilling and Suzuki.