October 30, 2011

Sebastiano Ricci, Liberation of St. Peter, San Stae, Venice, 1722

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. [NRSV, Psalm 34:7].

Feast of All Saints

October 30, 2011

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.

3) The Concert Calendar

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The organ voluntaries this coming Sunday are all from Olivier Messiaen, Les Corps glorieux.

 Luca Signorelli, Resurrection of the Body, Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto, 1499-1502

Olivier Messiaen

Les Corps glorieux:  Sept Visions brèves de la vie des ressuscités         

Bodies in Glory:  Sept Brief Visions of the Life of the Resurrected

Performed by Olivier Messiaen himself on the 1868-71 Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Église Sainte-Trinité, Paris.  

   

1) Subtilité des corps glorieux / Subtlety of the Bodies in glory

2) Les Eaux de la grâce / The Waters of Grace

3) L'Ange aux parfums / The Angel of Incense

4) Combat de la mort et de la vie / Combat of Death and Life

5) Force et agilité des corps glorieux / Strenght and Agility of the Bodies in Glory

6) Joie et clarté des corps glorieux / Joy and Light of the Bodies in Glory

7) Le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité / The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity

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Musica Orbium

Sunday November 13, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Remembrance

Johannes Brahms -  Deutsches Requiem Dan Locklair - Gloria in excelsis, from Brief Mass  Paul Patterson - Kyrie and Gloria Healey Willan - Kyrie Eleison, from  Missa Brevis 5 Musica Orbium Patrick Wedd, Artistic Director Stéphanie Manias, soprano Dion Mazarolle, baritone Anne-marie Denoncourt, piano Pamela Reimer, piano Christ Church Cathedral 1444 Avenue Union Montréal, QC H3A 2B8

In honour of Remembrance Day, we celebrate the living and remember those who have passed, through profound, eternal works composed by our contemporaries and those who have gone before them. From Willan’s stunning polyphonic Kyrie, to Locklair’s dynamic illumination of the Gloria. From the wild, jazzy rhythms and uninhibited outcries of Patterson’s striking Kyrie and Gloria to Brahms’ profound and majestic masterpiece, with which he changed the traditional ‘mass for the dead’ to point out a path of hope for mankind. We present the version for choir, soloists, and piano four hands as arranged by Brahms himself.

Click to go to the Musica Orbium website to order tickets.

To prepare click to go to online performances by prominent ensembles.

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Le FESTIVAL DES COULEURS

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Seventeenth Season - Autumn 2011

The Sundays of October, 2011, at 3:00 pm

 October 30: Jens Korndörfer

The recitals are free.

Chapel of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal

 2065 Sherbrooke West

 (Métro Guy-Concordia, bus 24)

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Bach Cantatas for the 19th Sunday after Trinity:

Healing of the Paralytic, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 16th cent.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wo soll ich fliehen hin / Where shall I refuge find, Cantata 5, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen / Miserable man that I am, Cantata 48, with performances by Gardiner, Gershensohn, Harnoncourt and Suzuki.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen / I would gladly bear the cross-beam, Cantata 56, with performances by Baumgartner, Gardiner, Kavakos,  Koopman, Leusink, Marriner, Norrington, Richter, Rifkin and Ristenpart.

October 23, 2011

Robert Walter Weir, Moses views the promised land, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,1860-5

 The Lord said to Moses, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there [NRSV, Deut. 34:4].”

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

October 23, 2011

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong.

3) The Concert Calendar

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The Annual Choir Fundraiser is Friday, November 4, at 7:30 pm.  How can I keep from singing?, an evening of some of the best loved anthems and hymns from the classical age of choral music.  Works by Bach, Fauré, Handel, Gibbons, Mozart and many others. Click here for complete information.

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Deer, San Clemente Apse, Rome, 12th cent.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sicut Cervus, is the Communion motet for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday.


Click to read what Timothy Dickey of AllMusic has to say of Sicut Cervus.

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum:

ita desiderat anima mea, ad te, Deus!

As the hart yearns for the water springs:
So longs my soul for thee, O God.

Listen to a number of performances:


Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Stephen Darlington conducting [CML] (info)

Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell conducting [CML] (info)

Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Gaël De Kerret conducting [CML] (info)

Cappella Musicale della Basilica di San Marco, Milano; Giovanni Viannini conducting [YouTube]

Sexteto Cantabile, Betty Rodríguez conducting [YouTube]

Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene conducting [listen]

London Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner conducting [musicMe] (info)

Regensburg Cathedral Choir, Georg Ratzinger conducting [NML] (info)

Musica Contexta, Simon Ravens conducting [NML] (info)

Amor Artis Chorus, Johannes Somary conducting [NML] (info)

San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Choir, David Stein conducting [listen]

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Le FESTIVAL DES COULEURS

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Seventeenth Season - Autumn 2011

The Sundays of October, 2011, at 3:00 pm

October 23: Nicolas Alexandre Marcotte

October 30: Jens Korndörfer

The recitals are free.

Chapel of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal

 2065 Sherbrooke West

 (Métro Guy-Concordia, bus 24)

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Bach Cantatas for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Andrey Rublev, Christ in Majesty, Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, 1408

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn / Lord Christ, the only son of God, Cantata 96, with performances by Kuijken, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gott soll allein mein Herze haben / God alone should possess my heart, Cantata 169, with performances by Harnoncourt, Leusink, Menuhin, Sándor and Scholl.

October 16, 2011

Peter Paul Rubens, The Tribute Money, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1612

Then Jesus said to them, "Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's [Matt 22:21b].”

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

October 16, 2011

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist andEvensong.

3) The Concert Calendar

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The Annual Choir Fundraiser is Friday, November 4, at 7:30 pm.  How can I keep from singing?, an evening of some of the best loved anthems and hymns from the classical age of choral music.  Works by Bach, Fauré, Handel, Gibbons, Mozart and many others. Click here for complete information.

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Regina caeli by Francesco Soriano is the introit for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday.

Gentile da Fabriano, Coronation of the Virgin, Getty Museum, 1420

Click to read about Regina Caeli.  

V. Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.

     Queen of heaven, rejoice, alleluia.

R. Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.

     For he whom you were worthy to bear, alleluia.

V. Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.

    Has risen as he said, alleluia.

R. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

    Pray for us to God, alleluia.

V. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia. 

    Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.

    For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.

Gregorian Chant:

Performed by the Monks of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, [musicMe] (info)

Performed by Sinéad O'Connor [YouTube]

Performed by Sacris Concentum Cantores [musicMe] (info)

Performed by Chanticleer [musicMe] (info) 

Performed by Choir of the Vienna Hofburgkapelle, Josef Schabasser conducting. [CML] (info) 

Henricus Isaac (c.1450-1517), performed by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting. [CML](info) 

Henricus Isaac, performed by the London Cornett and Sacbut Ensemble and the London Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner conducting [musicMe] (info) 

Francisco Guerrero (1528-99), performed by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting. [CML](info) 

Hernando Franco (1532-85), performed by the Cappella Cervantina, Horacio Franco conducting [musicMe] (info) 

Orlande de Lassus (1532-94), performed by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting. [CML](info) 

Robert White (c.1538-74), performed by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips conducting [CML](info) 

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), performed by Musica Ficta, Raúl Mallavibarrena conducting [We7] (info) 

Francesco Soriano (c.1548-1621), performed by the Maria Choir, Bror Samuelson conducting. [NML] (info) 

Philippe Rogier(1561-96), performed by the Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh conducting [musicMe] (info) 

Gregor Aichinger (1565-1628) performed by LaMaîtrise des hauts de France [YouTube]  

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), performed by Le Concert spirituel, Hervé Niquet conducting [NML] (info) 

George Frideric Handel (1685-59): three Salve Reginas, performed by the Scholars Baroque ensemble, conducted by David van Asch [NML] (info) 

Éric Lebrun (b. 1967), performed by Bayard-musique [musicMe] (info)  

Andrew Smith (b. 1970, performed by Trio Mediaeval [musicMe] (info)

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Le FESTIVAL DES COULEURS

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Seventeenth Season - Autumn 2011

The Sundays of October, 2011, at 3:00 pm

October 16: Régis Rousseau

October 23: Nicolas Alexandre Marcotte

October 30: Jens Korndörfer

The recitals are free.

Chapel of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal

 2065 Sherbrooke West

 (Métro Guy-Concordia, bus 24)

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The final round of the Canadian International Organ Competition is this Friday, October 14, at Notre Dame Basilica, 110 Notre-Dame West, Montreal.

Click for full information.

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Bach Cantatas for the 17th Sunday after Trinity

Illustrator of Petrus Comestor's 'Bible Historiale,' The  Man with Dropsy and the Ox, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1372

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wer sich selbst erhöhet / Who exalts himself, Cantata 47, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Kuijken and Leusink.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost / Ah, dear Christians, be consoled,

Cantata 114, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and Rilling.


Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens / Bring to the Lord the glory of his name, Cantata 148, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink, Richter, Rilling and Suzuki.