March 16, 2014


Lodovico Carracci, Christ and Nicodemus, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1800-19

Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born [Matthew 4:8]?"


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  
Second Sunday of Lent

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The organ voluntaries this coming Sunday are all the work of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

 

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

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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]  


The King's Singers perform Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:

         Psalm 2 [listen]

         Psalm 6 [listen]

         Psalm 7 [listen]