July 24, 2016




James Tissot, The Lord's Prayer

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

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2) The Concert Calendar: L’Oasis musicale

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This coming Wednesday, July 20, at 6:30 pm, as part of the series L’Oasis Musicale, Cathedral organists  Patrick Wedd and Adrian Foster will perform an hour-long concert at the 1980 Wilhelm organ

Processional March                           Brian Longthorne (1926-2003)
Pastourelle                                          Alain Gagnon (b. 1938)
Rhapsodie sur le nom de LAVOIE     Denis Bédard (b. 1950)
Livre d’Orgue (extraits)             Robert Frederick Jones (1947-2012)
- Prélude: Vox clama in deserta
- Tango en rondeau
Pastoral Drone (1982)                        George Crumb (b. 1929)
Pièce № 4                                            Bruce Mather (b. 1939)
Cortège Académique                          Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973)
    
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Music by Cristóbal de Morales is featured at this Sunday’s Eucharists.
Expand your knowledge of Morales’ music.


Cristóbal de Morales, Missa Queramus cum pastoribus

Performed by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral
James O'Donnell conducting

This disc available in its entirety for free online listening to anyone with library access to the Classical Music Library. Check with your librarian. Card-holders of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, who are ready to open their dossiers (record) when prompted, need only click on [CML] to go to the complete recording where choice of individual selections may be made. This disc is not available through the Bibliothèques de Montréal.


Click to see if this disc is ready to borrow from the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal.

Click to read about Cristóbal de Morales in Wikipedia.

Click to open the sleeve notes written by John Milsom with complete Latin texts and English translations.

Queramus cum pastoribus, upon which Morales based his Mass, is a 16th-century motet composed by Jean Mouton (not by Morales himself as wrongly indicated by the Classical Music Library).

Queramus cum pastoribus

Queramus cum pastoribus verbum incarnatum,
Let us, with the shepherds, seek the incarnate word,
cantemus cum hominibus regi seculorum: Noe, noe.
let us sing with all mankind to the king of the ages: Nowell, nowell.
Quem tu vides in stabulo? Jesum natum de vergine.
Whom do you see in the stable? Jesus born of a virgin.
Quid audis in pr’sepio?
What do you hear in the stall?
Angelorum carmina et pastores dicentes: Noe, noe.
The songs of the angels and the shepherds saying: Nowell, nowell.
Ubi pascas, ubi cubes?
How are you fed, and where do you lie?
Dic si ploras aut si rides; te rogamus Rex Christe: Noe, noe.
Say if you weep or smile; we ask you, Christ our King: Nowell, nowell.
Cibus est lac virgineum, lectus durum pr’sepium,
My food is the milk of a virgin, my bed a hard manger,
carmina sunt lachrymae: Noe, noe.
the only song my tears: Nowell, nowell.

Missa Queramus cum pastoribus







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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 byGeorges 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, Koopmanand Leusink.


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 byGardiner, 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 and Leusink.

July 17, 2016



The Hospitality of Abraham, Duomo di Monreale, Sicily, 12th cent.
Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.  They said to him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" And he said, "There, in the tent."  Then one said, "I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son  [NRSV, Genesis 18:8-10a]."
 
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
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2) The Concert Calendar: L’Oasis musicale
The motets at both Eucharists this coming Sunday are by William Byrd.
William Byrd
(1540-1623)
Click to read about William Byrd in Wikipedia.   [BNQ]  
 "In 1593 he [William Byrd] moved with his family to the small village ofStondon Massey in Essex, and spent the remaining thirty years of his life there, devoting himself more and more to music for the Roman liturgy. He published his three settings of the Mass Ordinary between 1592 and 1595, and followed them in 1605 and 1607 with his two books of Gradualia, an elaborate year-long musical cycle."  --- Wikipedia on William Byrd.



Click to hear Byrd's Masses, the Great Service and motets sung by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting.
Click to see and hear the Tallis Scholars sing Byrd's Vigilate.


Click to hear the Mass for Four Voices performed by the King's Singers  from their disc "1605 Treason and Dischord: William Byrd and the Gunpowder Plot." 
(To follow the text of the Mass settings in Latin with an English translation while listening, click on the musical selection, then minimize the player, then right-click here, then left-click on "Open in New Window.")





Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Four Voices, sung by L'Ensemble vocal Pythagore, in 1995 in Auxerre, Géraldine Toutain conducting.



Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Four Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus,Benedictus, Agnus Dei) performed by Clerestory at their inaugural concert, October 2006.



The Virtual Byrd Choir is the sacred music unit of the Virtual WilbyeConsort.  Both activities, founded in Tokyo in 2001, rely on one Japanese male voice.
Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Four Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus,Benedictus, Agnus Dei), performed by the Virtual Byrd Choir.
Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Three Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus,Benedictus, Agnus Dei), performed by the Virtual Byrd Choir.
Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Five Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus,Benedictus, Agnus Dei), performed by the Virtual Byrd Choir.


 Click to watch and hear Byrd, Mass for Four Voices, performed by the Vassar College Choir, Christine Howlett directing.
Click to see and hear Simone Stella plays a "Galiarda" by William Byrd from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Click to see and hear Glenn Gould play Byrd's Galliard No. 6.
Click to hear Byrd's Bells from the Fitwilliam Virginal Book.

Click to hear Byrd, Ave Verum Corpus (text), performed by the Cambridge Singers, John Rutter conducting.
To hear, Byrd, O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth (text), performed by the men's voices of the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Barry Rose conducting, in the Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, click here, the click on "Part I," then hold bar and slide to 19:45 (19 minutes and 45 seconds).


To hear, Byrd, Psalm 150: Laudibus in Sanctis (text), performed by theChoir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Barry Rose conducting, in theBasilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, click here, the click on "Part I," then hold bar and slide to 23:19 (23 minutes and 19 seconds).
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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.
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