May 4, 2014



Masaccio, Peter Baptizing, Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1426-27

Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit [NRSV, Acts 2:38].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes

Third Sunday of Easter


Click to go immediately to:



2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist, Eucharistie chantée and Evensong


3) The Concert Calendar
The music of Orlande de Lassus is featured at the Choral Eucharists this coming Sunday.
Orlande de Lassus
(1532 - 1594)
                                                                  

Click to read about de Lassus at length in Wikipedia.
Four complete discs of de Lassus music for free online listening are available from musicMe.  Click on the appropriate title.


Lassus - Lamentationes Jeremiæ Prophetæ by Collegium Regale, Stephen Cleobury conducting.
Lassus: Magnum opus musicum by the Choeur de chambre de Namur and La Fenice, Jean Tubery conducting.
Lassus : Biographie musicale, vol. 1. Années de jeunesse by Ludus Modalis, Bruno Boterf conducting.

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Rogier van der Weyden, Christ on the Cross with Mary and John, Monasterio de San Lorenzo, El Escorial, c.1460
Click to go to Orlande de Lassus, Stabat Mater, performed by The Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hilliard conducting.  Recorded at the Priority Church of St Mary & St Blaise, Boxgrove, West-Sussex, in September 1983.

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Sir Anthony van Dyke, Penitent Apostle Peter, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1617-18
Performance with text by the Ensemble Vocal  Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe  conducting. [YouTube]

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The Biblothèque nationale du Québec [Montréal] has an excellent recording of the Missa Bell’Amfitrit’Altera that may be borrowed.
Orlande de Lassus' Missa Bell'Amfitrit'Altera is a Parody Mass based on a lost madrigal about "another beautiful Amphitrite," a sea-nymph.
Lassus spent most of his adult life in Munich as maestro di cappella at the court of the dukes of Bavaria.  James O'Donnell, erstwhile director of the Westminster Cathedral Choir, with the assistance of Jeremy West's, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, in the recording of Festal Sacred Music of Bavaria has recreated a Mass for a martyr-bishop as it might have been performed in Augsburg cathedral around the year 1600.  The readings and prayers are omitted but the music is there with Lassus' Mass setting, the Missa Bell'Amfitrit'Altera filled out with prelude, postlude, propers and instrumental canzoni by Hans Leo Hassler and Christian Erbach.               
Lassus' Mass, usually sung today a cappella, is here embellished with instruments, the "sagbutts & cornetts" which act as a second choir.  The organ music is provided by Timothy Roberts, Iain Simcock, and Iris Schollhorn.
Click here for the Hyperion Records website (scroll down for notes).
Click here for the complete, detailed liner notes.
Click here to check whether the recording is currently on the shelf  at the Bibliothèque nationale to be borrowed.

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: No. 20




Mass of the Feast of Saint Joseph
Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Postlude Choral [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.


Bach Cantatas for Misericordias Domini [Third Sunday of Easter]:




Eric Gill, The Good Shepherd, Tate Collections, 1927

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich bin ein guter Hirt / I am a good shepherd, Canata 85, with performances by Coin, Gardiner, Harnoncourt,  Leusink and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Du Hirte Israel, höre / You Shepherd of Israel, Listen, Cantata 104, with performances by Gardiner, Koopman, Leusink, Richter, Rilling, and Suzuki.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt / The Lord is my faithful shepherd, Cantata 112, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt,  Leusink, and Rotzsch.

April 27, 2014

 Masolino da Panicale, Peter Preaching, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1426-27
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say [NRSV, Acts 2:14a]."

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The Second 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





Il Baciccio, The Women at the Tomb, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c.1685


The organ voluntaries this coming Sunday are all organ versions of the hymn, O filii et filiae.
O filii et filiae is an Easter hymn composed by Jean Tisserand, OFM 
(d. 1494).
Click to read about O fillii et filiae.
Click for the Latin text and Edward Caswell's English translation.
Chant by the Schola Regina, Philippe Nikolov conducting.  [YouTube]
Chant by La Schola Des Moines De L'abbaye De Liguge [musicMe]
Chant by Giovanni Vianini [YouTube]
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, O Filii et Filiae, performed by Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet conducting [YouTube]
Volckmar Leisring, O Filii Et Filiae, performed by the Colorado Choir [listen]
Valentino Miserachs Grau, O filii et filiae, performed by the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Choir; Valentino Miserachs Grau, director; Cantus: Hi-Jung Jun, Eun-Young Cho; Altus: Eun Jeong, Miriam Cicchitti; Tenor: Rafael Martinez Ramirez, Pietro Bernardi; Bassus: Nikolay Bogacki, Thomas Djedje; Organ: Hye-Jung Son. [listen]
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738), O filii et filiae, performed by Pierre Bardon at the Isnard organ of the Basilique Saint Maximin, la Sainte Baume  [YouTube]
Lynwood Farnam, Toccata on O filii et filiae by Michael J. Celularo on the 1933 Aeolian-Skinner organ of All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester [YouTube]
Variations on O Filii et Filiae improvised by Frédéric Blanc on the 2000 Schudi-Dupont organ of Perkins Chapel, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, click here, then click on "Listen to the program," then hold button and slide to 59:56 (59 minutes and 56 seconds).
To listen to Alexandre Guilmant, Offertoire, ‘O filii’, Op. 49, no. 2, performed by Robert Delcamp on the 1961; 2004 Casavant organ of All Saints’ Chapel, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Click here, then click on "Listen to the program," then hold button and slide to 3:07 (3 minutes and 7 seconds).
To listen to Alexandre Boëly, Offertoire pour le Jour de Paques, Op. 38, no. 10, performed by Daniel Roth on the 1862 Cavaillé-Coll organ of Bayeux Cathedral,  click here, the click on "Listen to the program," then hold button and slide to 6:07 (Six minutes and 7 seconds).  The next piece follows immediately.
To listen to Jean Langlais, Fugue on O filii et Filiae, performed by Christoph Kuhlmann on the 1995 Weyland organ of Saint Andreas Church, Cologne, click here, then click on listen to the program, then hold button and slide to 11:50 (11 minutes and 50 seconds).
Performance of Jos van Amelsvoort, O filii et filiae, by Fred Vonk on the  Flentrop organ of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Breda. [listen]


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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: No. 18
Mass of Quasimodo (2nd Sunday of Easter):
Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Toccata on a Choral [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.
Bach Cantatas for Quasimodogeniti Sunday (Second Sunday of Easter):


Duccio di Buoninsgna, Jesus Appears, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats / On the evening of the same sabbath, Cantata 42, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt,  Herreweghe and Leusink.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ / Keep in memory Jesus Christ, Cantata 67, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink, Richter and Suzuki

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