August 2, 2015


Dieric Bouts the Elder, Last Supper (detail)
Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven, 1464-67


Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty [NRSV, John 6:35].


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost


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1892 Father Willis organ, Hereford Cathedral


The organ voluntaries for Choral Evensong of the coming Sunday are the work of Peter Racine Fricker.


Listen to a virtual performance (Hereford Cathedral Willis organ sample set) of Fricker’s Five Short Pieces.


The "Five Short Pieces" date from 1981, and are published by Augsburg.


1 - "Little Toccata" is for manuals only, and begins with mixtures, before building to full reeds with 16' stops.


2 - "Meditation" uses quiet stops, essentially 2 voices in each hand, over drone basses in the pedal, played on 8' stops.


3 - "Scherzino" uses soft 8, 4, and 2' stops on the Swell for the first second, Great flutes 8 & 4' in the middle, and returns to the sound of the first section with the Tierce (from the Choir) added.


4 - "Varied Ostinato" 0 features the Flutes 8 & 2' of the Choir in the right hand, while the Swell reeds supply the melody. The Pedal has some pizzicato effects.


5 - "Ceremony" uses the Full Swell and Great chorus with swinging, "ceremonial" rhythms. It builds to full organ over a wonderful final chord of A major in the manuals over C natural in the Pedal!
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Patrick Wedd, music director of Christ Church Cathedral, will bring to a close the Wednesday concert series at Christ Church Cathedral (L’Oasis musicale) on Wednesday, July 29th, at 6:15 pm, with a recital at the 1980 Wilhelm organ of music composed by Ira Gershwin and arranged for organ.  Admission free / donation requested.  Reception with refreshments to follow.


Programme:


Three Preludes, arranged by Ralf Sach


Rhapsody in Blue, arranged by Tobias Zuleger


By way of preparation listen free online:


Three Preludes with Lars Roos at the piano [YouTube]


Rhapsody in Blue with Leonard Bernstein at the piano and conducting the New York Philharmonic [YouTube]


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Listen to Patrick play a Wurlitzer.  He has a recording Strike up the Band performed at the Grand Wurlitzer at the Orpheum in Vancouver available on demand at the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec. You can listen free online at the Naxos Music Library.  Check with your librarian. If you have a card at the Grande Bibliothèque and are ready to open your account online just click here.  For the Bibliothèque de Montréal, just click here.
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Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. James United Church, Montreal, for the Summer 2015 (Tuesdays at 12:30 pm) and the Church of Saint Andrew and Saint Paul (Thursday at 12:15 pm).


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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56: Nos. 36





Mass of the 10th Sunday after Pentecost


Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Choral No. 1  [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.



Unjust Steward from Mother Stories from the New Testament, Altemus, 2005


Bach Cantatas for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity:


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Was frag ich nach der Welt / What do I ask for from the world, Cantata 94, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink and Rilling.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht/ Lord, do not go into court with your servant, Cantata 105, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Koopman, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort / Give an account of yourself! Word of thunder, Cantata 168, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Rilling.

July 26, 2015



Elisha, Russian icon from Kizhi Monastery, 18th cent.


So Elisha repeated, ‘Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the Lord, “They shall eat and have some left [NRSV, 2 Kings 4:43b].”


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost


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Louis XIII organ case installed in the Cathedral of Rheims while De Grigny was organist


The organ voluntaries for Evensong this coming Sunday are Ave Maris Stella by Nicolas de Grigny. His surviving music is contained in a large volume of organ works, Premier livre d'orgue(Paris, 1699; second edition 1711).


Performance of the Mass from the Premier livre d'orgue by Pierre Bardon on the 1772-74 Isnard organ of la Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var) en Provence [musicMe] (info)  


Performance of the Hymns from the Premier livre d'orgue by Pierre Bardon on the 1772-74 Isnard organ of la Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var) en Provence [musicMe] (info)


Performance of the Mass from the Premier livre d'orgue by  Jean-Jacques Grunenwald , at the 1787 Clicquot organ of the Cathedral of Poitiers;Hugh Mackenzie, cello; Chœur des moines del'Abbaye de la Pierre-Qui-Vire, Père Fulbert conducting. [musicMe] (info)


Click to go to James Pressler's virtual performance of Nicolas de Grigny, Premier Livre d'orgue (First Organ Book).  The entire work can be streamed or individual movements played by clicking on the "notes."


Performance of Nicolas de Grigny, Premier Livre d'orgue by John Grew on the 1981 Wolff organ of Redpath Hall, McGill University) [BNQ; BM](info).


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             Alain Payette, piano        Jules Payette, alto saxophone

   Donald Pistolesi, cello  

        Jonathan Bailey, flute


Concert: A Meeting with Alain Payette and his Friends
Wednesday, July 22, 6:15 pm at Christ Church Cathedral
Admission free / freewill offering


Programme:


Sonate d’automne (flute and piano)


Sonate pour violon et piano (alto saxophone version)


Trio no. 2 pour violon, violoncelle et piano (with alto saxophone)


By way of preparation, listen free online:


Sonate pour violon et piano, performed by Simon Lapointe, violin; and Ann-Marie Dubois, piano [CMC]


Trio no. 2, pour violon, violoncelle et piano, performed by violonist: Marc Bélanger;
cellist: Jean-Luc Morin; pianist: Alain Payette [YouTube]


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Gerswin1.jpg

Patrick Wedd, music director of Christ Church Cathedral, will bring to a close the Wednesday concert series at Christ Church Cathedral (L’Oasis musicale) on Wednesday, July 29th, at 6:15 pm, with a recital at the 1980 Wilhelm organ of music composed by Ira Gershwin and arranged for organ.  Admission free / donation requested.  Reception with refreshments to follow.


Programme:


Three Preludes, arranged by Ralf Sach


Rhapsody in Blue, arranged by Tobias Zuleger


By way of preparation listen free online:


Three Preludes with Lars Roos at the piano [YouTube]


Rhapsody in Blue with Leonard Bernstein at the piano and conducting the New York Philharmonic [YouTube]


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Listen to Patrick play a Wurlitzer.  He has a recording Strike up the Band performed at the Grand Wurlitzer at the Orpheum in Vancouver available on demand here at the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec: http://iris.banq.qc.ca/alswww2.dll/Obj_434201437487073?Style=Portal3&SubStyle=&Lang=FRE&ResponseEncoding=utf-8&View=Annotated
You can listen free online at the Naxos Music Library.  Check with your librarian. If you have a card at the Grande Bibliothèque and are ready to open your account online just click here.  For the Bibliothèque de Montréal, just click here.



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Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. James United Church, Montreal, for the Summer 2015 (Tuesdays at 12:30 pm) and the Church of Saint Andrew and Saint Paul (Thursday at 12:15 pm).


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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 byGeorges 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.