August 25, 2013

The Heavenly Jerusalem from the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, 11th cent.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering [NRSV, Hebrews 12:22].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost



Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

The organ voluntaries for the Choral Eucharists this coming Sunday are the work of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.


Click to read about Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.


Adriaan Engels on the Marcussen organ of the Grote or Sint-Laurentskerk in Rotterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Fantasy on: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La performed by [listen]


Adriaan Engels on the Witte organ of the Grote or Sint-Jacobskerk in The Hague performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:


     Echo-fantasy [listen]


     Variations on Psalm 116 [listen]


     Fantasy on: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La (2) [listen]


     Variations on Our Father who art in heaven [listen]


     Toccata in a minor [listen]


Geert Bierling on the Slegel organ of the Grote or Sint-Andreaskerk in Hattem performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:


     Variations on "My young life has an end" [listen]


     The granduke's ball [listen]


     Chromatic fantasy in d minor [listen]


Dirk Janszoon Zwart on the Vater organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:


     Fantasy (Ionian) [listen]


     Variations on "Allein Got in der Höh' sei Ehr" [listen]


Bert Matter on the Bader organ of the Sint-Walburgiskerk in Zutphen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Two variations on "Ich ruf'zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" [listen]


Jan Jongepier on the Freytag organ of the St.-Pancras- or Zuiderkerk in Enkhuizen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Nun komm'der Heiden Heiland [listen]


Jan Jansen on the Van Vulpen organ of the Grote or Sint-Nicolaaskerk in Brouwershaven performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck,"My young life has an end" (variations on I.iii No. 6) [listen]


Johan Beeftink on the Schnitger organ of the Der Aa-kerk in Groningen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Choral partita "O Mensch bewein'dein Sünde gross"
  1. verse 1 cantus firmus in soprano
  2. verse 2 cantus firmus in tenor
  3. verse 3 cantus firmus in bass [listen]


Lambert Erné on the Marcussen organ of the Nicolaïkerk in Utrecht performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:


      Fantasy in D [listen]


     Variations on Dies sind die Heil'gen Zehngebot [listen]


     Choral prelude 'Nun freut euch lieben Christengemein'  
          [listen]


Klaas Bolt on the Arend & Bruzema organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Echo fantasy [listen]


Dorthy de Rooij on the Kiespenning organ of the Grote Kerk in Wijk bij Duurstede performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Echo fantasy [listen]


Ton Koopman on the Schnitger organ in the Grote or Sint-Michaelskerk in Zwolle performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Chromatic fantasy in d minor / Puer nobis nascitur [listen]


Remy Syrier on a private home organ in Utrecht performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein [listen]


James Christie on the Fisk organ of Wellesley College performs Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck:


     Toccata [listen]


    Ballo del Gran Duca (doubtful; probably by Samuel Scheidt) 
          [listen]


     Malle Sijmen (doubtful) [listen]


     Onder een line groen [listen]


     Poolsche Dans [listen]



The Voices of Ascension Chorus & Orchestra, Dennis Keene conducting, perform Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck:


     Tu as esté, Seigneur, nostre retraicte (Psalm 90) for 4 
          voices [listen]


     Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle, chantez, ô terre 
          (Psalm 96), for 4 voices [listen]


     Hodie Christus natus est, motet for 5 voices & continuo 
          (Cantiones Sacrae No. 13) [listen



The Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss conducting, performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:


    Resveillez vous, chascun fidele [listen]


    Qui en la garde du haut Dieu [listen


    Du fonds de ma pensée [listen


    De profundis clamavi ad te Domine [listen


    Magnificat [listen]


    Beati pauperes spiritu [listen


    A Dieu ma voix j'ay haussée [listen


    Ainsi qu'on oit le cerf bruire à 8 [listen


    Sus mon ame, qu'on benie le Souverain [listen


    Te Deum laudamus [listen]  


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The Church
of St Andrew and St Paul
3415 Redpath Street
(Next to the Museum of Fine Arts)
Montréal


Thursdays until August 29, 2013 at 12:15 p.m.: Organ Intermezzi, featuring artists from around the world playing the church's monumental Casavant organ. Freewill donation.

August 22: Mélanie Barney - Cathédrale de St-Jérome, QC
August 29:
Jonathan Oldengarm



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Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. James United Church, Montreal, Tuesdays, 12:30 pm, during the Summer 2013.



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 Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56: No. 40








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

Mass of the 14th Sunday after Pentecost


Prelude for the Introit [YouTube] 

Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube] 

Choral No. 5  [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.


Vincent van Gogh, The Good Samaritan (After Delacroix), Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands, 1890


Bach Cantatas for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity:

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ / Alone towards you, Lord Jesus Christ, Cantata 33, with performances by Gardiner, Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink and Richter.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben / You must love God, your Lord, Cantata 77, with performances by Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink and Suzuki.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet / You, who take your name from Christ, Cantata 164, with performances by Gardiner, Koopman, Leonhardt and Leusink.