Simon Bening, Jesus enters Jerusalem, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 1525-30
Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields [NRSV, Mark 11:8].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Passion / Palm Sunday
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Wondrous Machine, organ works by Arthur Wills,performed by Jeremy Filsell at the 1995 Marcussen organ of Tonbridge School. [BNQ; BM] (info)
Rogier van der Weyden, Entombment of Christ, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1450
The anthem for evensong for Palm Sunday is Kenneth Leighton, Solus ad victimam. Click to go to Peter Abelard's text, with translation by Helen Waddell, and performances by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; the Choir of St. Stephen’s Church, Canterbury, and Somerville College Choir, Oxford.
To listen to George Frideric Handel , Messiah: Part II and III, The Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, performed by Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler, Samuel Ramey, The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, and The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis conducting, while following the English text, right-click here, then left-click on "Open in New Window," then click here. Arrange windows.
Ibrahim and Uhanna the Armenian, The Christ, Alexandria Library, 1464
Performance of George Frideric Handel, Messiah, Parts II and III, The Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by The Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Christopher Hogwood conducting, To listen while following the English text, right-click here, then left-click on "Open in New Window," then click here. Arrange windows.
Hieronymus Bosch, Christ Carrying the Cross, Palacio Real, Madrid, 1505-07
The Passion proclaimed this coming Sunday is from the Gospel according to Mark.
Performance of a reconstruction by Andor Gomme, with recitatives and turbas by Reinhard Keiser. Recorded atChapel of Downing College, Cambridge, England. [musicMe]
Tenor [Evangelist]: Jeremy Ovenden; bass [Jesus]: Timothy Mirfin; soprano [arias]: Ruth Gomme; alto [arias]: William Towers; tenor [arias]: James Gilchrist; tenor [chorale]: Paul Thompson; [Maid]: Abigail Boreham; Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge / Cambridge Baroque Camarata; Geoffrey Webber.
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Pietro Lorenzetti, Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, Lower Basilica, Assisi, 1320
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Himmelskönig, sei willkommen / King of heaven, welcome, Cantata 182, for Palm Sunday, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Jürgens, Leusink, Richter, and Thomas.