July 26, 2009

Salvator Dali, Iesus super mare ambulans, Biblia Sacra, 1964-67

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terrified (NRSV, John 6:19).

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

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3) The Concert Calendar


All four organ voluntaries this coming Sunday are by Johann Pachelbel whose complete organ works performed by Joseph Payne are available for online listening through the Naxos Music Library. Check with your librarian. Cardholders of La Bibliothèque nationale du Québec who are ready to open their record (dossier) when prompted, click here to go Johann Pachelbel. Those cardholders choosing to hear any of the four organ voluntaries, go to the music calendar for this coming Sunday and click on the appropriate [NML]. The complete organ works of Johann Pachelbel performed by Antoine Bouchard are available to borrow from the BNQ. Click here for availabilty.


The anthem for Evensong this coming Sunday is William Mundy, The Maker of all thing. Click to read about William Munday and listen to two versions of the motet as well as 11 others by The Sixteen, Harry Christophers conducting.
Harry Christophers



Click to learn about choir auditions for children 8-16: The Trebles Choir under the direction of Patrick Wedd.







Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

Click for the calendar of organ recitals, all of which are free admission/voluntary contribution.





2009 Commemoration: 350th Anniversay of the Birth of Henry Purcell (1659-95)




Click to go to Pipedreams for an hour and a half programme of organ music by Henry Purcell, as well as music attributed to him, namely the famous Trumpet Voluntary in D.





Click to go to Franz Ignaz Beck, Stabat Mater dolorosa, performed by Sandrine Piau, soprano; Heidrun Kordes, soprano; Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor; Christoph Einhorn, tenor; Klaus Mertens, bass; SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart; La Stagione Frankfort; Michael Schneider conducting.

Click to go to a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 115 by Soprano: Barbara Schlick, Alto: Andreas Scholl, Tenor: Christoph Prégardien, Bass: Gotthold Schwarz; Das Leipziger Concerto Vocale(Direction: Gotthold Schwarz) / Ensemble Baroque de Limoges; Christophe Coin conducting. Recorded at Ponitz Kirche, Thüringen, Germany.

July 19, 2009

Prophet Nathan, Transfiguration Church, Kizhi Monastery, Karelia, Russia, 18th cent.
But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan (NRSV, 2 Samuel 7:4).


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Orlande de Lassus, Super flumina Babylonis, is the anthem for Evensong this coming Sunday. Super flumina Babylonis are the opening words of psalm 136 (137) which speaks of the conditions of the Hebrews taken into captivity in Babylon (586 BCE) who, out of sadness, no longer want to sing of their homeland but are requested to do so by their captors. Click to hear De Lassus' motet and a number of other versions, including the celebrated exchange between Philippe de Monte and William Byrd.



Between last Sunday and this, all five movements of Percy Whitlock, Plymouth Suite, will have been performed as organ voluntaries at Christ Church Cathedral. Click to read about Percy Whitlock,and listen to his organ music, especially the Plymouth Suite in its entirety performed by Jennifer Bate.




Patrick Wedd, music director, Christ Church Cathedral, will give an organ recital this Sunday, July 19, at 7:00 pm on the Casavant organ, Basilica of Notre-Dame, as part of the Festival international des grandes orgues de la basilique de Notre-Dame, Montreal. The programme will include works by Patrick Gowers, Percy Whitlock, Herbert Howells and Francis Jackson. Free admission / voluntary offering.






Click to learn about choir auditions for children 8-16: The Trebles Choir under the direction of Patrick Wedd.



Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

Click for the June-July calendar of organ recitals, most of which are free admission/voluntary contribution.




2009 Commemoration: The 250 aniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)


Click to go to a performance of George Frideric Handel, Israel in Egypt by Nancy Argenta, soprano; Emily Van Evera, soprano; Timothy Wilson, alto, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor; David Thomas, bass; Jeremy White, bass; Taverner Choir & Players; Andrew Parrott conducting.



Click to go to the complete Johann Sebastian Bach, Clavier-Übung III (The German Organ Mass) performed by James Kibbie on the 1724-30 Trost organ, Stadtkirche, Waltershausen, Germany and on the 1722 Gottfried Silbermann organ, Marienkirche, Rotha, Germany, along with those previously posted by Marie-Claire Alain on the Schnitger organ in Martinikerk, Groningen, The Netherlands, and Bernard Lagacé on the 1961 Beckerath organ of l’Église de l’Immaculée-Conception, Montreal. Essay by James Kibbie. Programme notes by Marc-André Doran.



Click to go to a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach,Cantata 49, by Soprano: Barbara Schlick; Bass: Gotthold Schwarz; Ensemble Baroque de Limoges; Christophe Coin conducting. Recorded at Ponitz Kirche, Thüringen, Germany.

July 12, 2009

Francesco Salviati, David Dancing before the Ark, Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome, 1552-54

As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart (NRSV, 2 Samuel 6:16).


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

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The Mass setting, Missa Cantate, and the Communion motet, Pange Lingua, [BBC Singers: NML] (info), for this Sunday are by Bob Chilcott. Listen to his Pie Jesu from Fauré's Requiem, sung when he was 12, [CML] (info) and the Kyrie and Gloria from his Little Jazz Mass (Wan Fang Senior High School: YouTube).






Olivier Latry, one of three titulars of the 1887 Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, will give a free concert, co-sponsored by the McGill Summer Organ Academy and Les Concerts Lachine, on Thursday, July 16, on the 1920/2002 Casavant organ of Sts-Anges-Gardiens in Lachine, at 8:00 pm. Works by Saint-Saëns, Franck, Widor, Vierne, Messiaen, Escaich, Guillou; along with improvisation.





Click to learn about choir auditions for children 8-16: The Trebles Choir under the direction of Patrick Wedd.






Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

Click for the June-July calendar of organ recitals, most of which are free admission/voluntary contribution.




2009 Commemoration: 200th Anniversary of the Death of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)


Click to go to Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung / The Creation; performance by Lucia Popp, Gabriel; Werner Hollweg, Uriel; Kurt Moll, Raphael; Helena Dose, Eve; Benjamin Luxon, Adam; Brighton Festival Chorus (Laszio Heltay, Chorus master); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Antal Doráti, harpsicord; David Strange, cello; Jack McCormack, double bass Antal Doráti conducting.




Click to go to the complete Johann Sebastian Bach, Clavier-Übung III (The German Organ Mass) played by Marie-Claire Alain on the Schnitger organ in Martinikerk (Groningen), along with that previously posted of Bernard Lagacé on the 1961 Beckerath organ of l’Église de l’Immaculée-Conception, Montreal. Programme notes by Marc-André Doran.


Click to go to a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 39, by Soprano: Agnès Mellon; Tenor: Howard Crook, Bass: Peter Kooy; Chorus & Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent; Philippe Herreweghe conducting. Recorded at Minderbroederskerk, Ghent, Belgium.

July 5, 2009

Camillo Boccaccino, The Prophet David, Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza, 1530

And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him (2 Samuel 5:10).

Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

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1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar

The Annual International Jazz Festival of Montreal is underway. This Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral there will be a celebration of the third annual Jazz Mass with the Revd Canon Tim Eliot and the Brian Barlow Quartet. In the afternoon instead of evensong there will be Jazz Vespers.



The postlude for Choral Eucharist this Sunday will be Joe Utterback, My hope is built. Click to read about Joe Utterback and listen to some of his music including My hope is built.




Click to learn about choir auditions for children 8-16: The Trebles Choir under the direction of Patrick Wedd.





Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

Click for the June-July calendar of organ recitals, most of which are free admission/voluntary contribution.




2009 Commemoration: 200th anniversay of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)

Click to go to Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah, Oratorio Op. 70, performed by Willard White, Elijah; Rosalind Plowright, soprano solos, Widow, Angel; Linda Finnie, contralto solos, angel, Queen; Arthur Davies, tenor solos, Obadiah, Ahab; Jeremy Budd, Youth; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus;Roderick Elms, organ; Richard Hickox conducting.



Click to go to Domenico Scarlatti, Stabat Mater dolorosa; Anthony Pleeth, cello; Chi-Chi Nwanoku, double bass; Timothy Bytam-Wigfield, organ; Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford;Francis Grier conducting.




Click for a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 107, by Soprano: Agnès Mellon; Tenor: Howard Crook, Bass: Peter Kooy; Chorus & Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent; Philippe Herreweghe conducting.
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