August 1, 2010

Jan Fyt, Concert of Birds, Liechtenstein Museum, 1658

They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes, says the LORD. [NRSV, Hosea 11:11].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

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2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

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The organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday, the 10th after Pentecost, are by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621).

Click below to listen to 26 of Sweelinck's organ works by 12 Dutch organists.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Fantasy on: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La performed by Ariaan Engels on the Marcussen organ of the Grote or Sint-Laurentskerk in Rotterdam [listen]

Adriaan Engels on the Witte organ of the Grote or Sint-Jacobskerk in The Hague performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:

Echo-fantasy [listen]

Variations on Psalm 116 [listen]

Fantasy on: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La (2) [listen]

Variations on Our Father who art in heaven [listen]

Toccata in a minor [listen]

Geert Bierling on the Slegel organ of the Grote or Sint-Andreaskerk in Hattem performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:

Variations on "My young life has an end" [listen]

The granduke's ball [listen]

Chromatic fantasy in d minor [listen]

Dirk Janszoon Zwart on the Vater organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:

Fantasy (Ionian) [listen]

Variations on "Allein Got in der Höh' sei Ehr" [listen]

Bert Matter on the Bader organ of the Sint-Walburgiskerk in Zutphen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Two variations on "Ich ruf'zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" [listen]

Jan Jongepier on the Freytag organ of the St.-Pancras- or Zuiderkerk in Enkhuizen performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Nun komm'der Heiden Heiland [listen]

Jan Jansen on the Van Vulpen organ of the Grote or Sint-Nicolaaskerk in Brouwershaven performs "My young life has an end" (variations on I.iii No. 6) [listen]

Johan Beeftink on the Schnitger organ of the Der Aa-kerk in Groningen performs the Choral partita "O Mensch bewein'dein Sünde gross"
verse 1 cantus firmus in soprano
verse 2 cantus firmus in tenor
verse 3 cantus firmus in bass [listen]

Lambert Erné on the Marcussen organ of the Nicolaïkerk in Utrecht performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck:

Fantasy in D [listen]

Variations on Dies sind die Heil'gen Zehngebot [listen]

Choral prelude 'Nun freut euch lieben Christengemein' [listen]

Klaas Bolt on the Arend & Bruzema organ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Echo fantasy [listen]

Dorthy de Rooij on the Kiespenning organ of the Grote Kerk in Wijk bij Duurstede performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Echo fantasy [listen]

Ton Koopman on the Schnitger organ in the Grote or Sint-Michaelskerk in Zwolle performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Chromatic fantasy in d minor(1) / Puer nobis nascitur [listen]

Remy Syrier on a private home organ in Utrecht performs Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein [listen]



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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 105 performed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Pieter Jan Leusink.

Unknown author from Jerom Nadal, Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, The Shrewd Manager, 1593