Christ, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 6th cent.
Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. [NRSV, Revelation 21:6].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist, Eucharistie chantée and Choral Evensong
2) The Concert Calendar (L’Oasis Musicale)
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The organ voluntaries for the 10am Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are from Marcel Dupré, Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge. Listen to the entire work.
Marcel Dupré, Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge(Fifteen Pieces for Organ, Founded on Antiphons), Op.18, performed by Judith Hancock at the Great Organ of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New york City
Click to go to a playlist of all 15 pieces.
- Magnificat 2: For Behold from Henceforth All Generations
- Magnificat 3: And His Mercy Is on Them That Fear Him
- Magnificat 4: He Hath Put Down the Mighty from Their Seat
- Magnificat 5: He Remembering His Mercy Hath Holpen His
Dupré’s international fame developed soon after the First World War. It was the direct result of his skill as an improviser, specifically on plainsong themes. The 15 Versets pour les Vêpres du Commun des Fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, first played by Dupré at the Royal Albert Hall in December 1920 and published that year in London, initiated a form of composition based on plainsong to which Dupré reverted in the course of his composing career before, during, and after the Second World War. In 1943, he completed Le tombeau de Titelouze, 16 Chorals sur des Hymnes liturgiques, Op 38... During an Organ Week held in Rouen in 1942, the Abbé Robert Delestre, Maître de Chapelle of Rouen Cathedral showed Dupré the unmarked grave of Jean Titelouze, the founding father of French organ music. It immediately inspired Dupré to compose this Tombeau which he inscribed to the Abbé. Placare Christe servulis, the last piece in the collection, treats the hymn melody in the form of a toccata (D major, 12/8) for All Saints Day. Te lucis ante terminum, the fifth piece of the collection, is for the Office of Compline. A four-part piece, for two manuals and pedals, with the hymn melody in the treble, it unfolds in a modal C sharp minor and common-time.
-- from notes by Felix Aprahamian
-- Roger Raynor
Le tombeau de Titelouze, 16 Chorals sur des Hymnes liturgiques, Op 38
Performance by Jean-Paul Imbert at the van den Heuvel Organ of Saint Eustache, Paris [YouTube]
Performance by Jean-Paul Imbert at the van den Heuvel Organ of Saint Eustache, Paris [YouTube]
Performance by Michael Keeley at the Buzard Organ, Opus 5 of St. James Methodist Church, Danville,
Illinois [BNQ; BM] (info)
I. Creator alme siderum
II. Jesu Redemptor omnium
III. A solis ortus
IV. Audi, benigne Conditor
V. Te lucis ante terminum
VI. Coelestis urbs Jerusalem
VII. Ad regias Agni dapes
VIII. Veni Creator Spiritus
IX. Vexilla Regis prodeunt
X. Pange lingua gloriosi
XI. Ave Maris Stella
XII. Iste Confessor Domini
Performance by Marcel Dupré at 1890 Cavaillé-Coll Organ of the Église Saint-Ouen, Rouen. Click here then click on “1118 Hour 2.”
XIII. Lucis Creator optime
XIV. Ut queant laxis
XV. Te splendor et virtus Patris
XVI. Placare Christe servulis
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Mass of the 5th Sunday after Easter:
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Bach Cantatas for Cantate [Fifth Sunday of Easter]:
Anthony van Dyck, Descent of the Holy Spirit, Academy of Arts, Petrograd, c.1620
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe / It is good for you that I should go away, Cantata 108, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wo gehest du hin? / Where are you going? Cantata 166, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and Suzuki.