August 10, 2014


Giusto de'Menabuoi, Joseph cast into a pit, Baptistery, Cathedral, Padua, 1576-78


Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams [NRSV, Genesis 37:20]."


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

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This coming Saturday, August 9, at 4:30 pm (admission free; donation requested) at Christ Church Cathedral, the Trio Monbraque: Jonathan Bailey (flute), Donald Pistolesi (cello) and Genevieve Beaudet (piano) will perform, The Dawn of Romanticism,


Joseph Haydn, Trio in G, Hb XV: 15

Friedrich Kuhlau, Trio in G, op. 119

Carl Maria von Weber, Trio in g minor, op. 63


By way of preparation listen to:


Joseph Haydn, Trio in G, Hb XV: 15, performed by the Van Swieten Trio [YouTube]

Friedrich Kuhlau, Trio in G, op. 119, performed by the Chinook Trio [YouTube]

Carl Maria von Weber, Trio in g minor, op. 63, performed by Clemens Hagen (cello), Irena Grafnauer (flute), and Vadim Sakharov [musicMe]


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The Mass setting and motets for the Choral Eucharists this coming Sunday are the work of Orlande de Lassus.


Here is a collection of de Lassus motets from the disc by The Namur Chamber Choir and the Ensemble La Fenice, Jean Tubéry conducting:


Quid trepidas a 6 [text] [musicMe]
   
Haec quae ter a 3 [text] [musicMe]
   
Pulvis et umbra [text] [musicMe]     


Fertur in conviviis [text] [musicMe]     


Qui regit astra [text] [musicMe]     


Ut queant laxis [text] [musicMe]     


Lauda Mater Ecclesia [text] [musicMe]     


Song without words a 2, No. 16 [musicMe]  
   
In quoscunque locos [text] [musicMe]     


Super flumina Babylonis [text] [musicMe]     


Hispanum ad coenam mercator Belga [text] [musicMe]  
   
Bestia stultus homo [text] [musicMe]     


Song without words a 2, No. 21 [musicMe]  
   
Quam pulchra es (Instrumental) [musicMe]  
   
Quam pulchra es [text] [musicMe]     


Homo cum in honore [text] [musicMe]     


Non des mulieri [text] [musicMe]     


Nunc gaudere licet [text] [musicMe]     


Luxuriosa res vinum [text] [musicMe]     


O decus celsi [text] [musicMe]     


Song without words a 2, No. 22 [musicMe]     


Ad primum morsum [text] [musicMe]     


In hora ultima [text] [musicMe]


 
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56, No. 34



Mass of the 9th Sunday after Pentecost


Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Supplication and Modal Fugue  [YouTube]

Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
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Bach Cantatas for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity:


 
Alexander Master, Jesus heals the crippled woman; The parable of the barren fig-tree, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1430

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch / You have been told, mankind, Cantata 45, with performances by Leonhardt, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz / Search me, God, and know my heart, Cantata 136, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt,  Koopman, Leusink,  Suzuki and Rilling.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält / If the Lord God does not stay with us, Cantata 178, with performances by Harnoncourt, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.