December 30, 2012

Workshop of Rembrandt, Samuel and Eli, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, c. 1630
 
Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and with the people [NRSV, 1 Sam. 2:26].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes 
Sunday after Christmas Day

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist

3) The Concert Calendar
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 Luca della Robbia, Cantoria (detail), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence 1431-38

The organ voluntaries at Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are three versions of In dulci jubilo by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):



BWV 608 [Kibbie: listen], BWV 729 [Kibbie: listen], BWV 751 [Stella: YouTube].


 Click to read about the origin and history of In Dulci Jubilo.

 Click to go to a variey of performances of In dulci jubilo.
   
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 Martin Schongauer, Nativity (detail), Staatliche Museen, Berlin, c.1480

The Mass setting and Comunion motet are the work of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): O Magnum Mysterium.  Click to go to O Magnum Mysterium by a number of different composers.

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Bartolome Murillo, Adoration of the Shepherds, Museo del Prado, Madrid, c.1650

The Introit for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday, is the second movement, Break forth, o beauteous heavenly light, from the Second Day of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.


Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, The Nativity, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1445

Online performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, with versions conducted by Georg Christoph Biller / Riccardo Chailly / Diego Fasolis / Phillip Ledger / Karl Münchinger) 


Cantata I for the 1st Day of Christmas

Cantata II for the 2nd Day of Christmas

Cantata III for the 3rd Day of Christmas

Cantata IV for New Year's Day

Cantata V for the Sunday after New Year

Cantata VI for the Feast of Epiphany 

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a video performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, to begin their year long Cantata Pilgrimage. Soprano: Claron McFadden; Alto: Bernarda Fink; Tenor: Christoph Genz; Bass: Dietrich Henschel. [YouTube]

Video performance by Rachel Harnisch, soprano; Sonja Philippin, soprano (echo); Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano; Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Evangelist); Christian Immler, bass; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Peter Dijkstra, conducting.  Recorded at Herkulessaal, Residenz München, 2010 [YouTube]  

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No. 4


 
 
Mass of the Sunday in the Octave of the Nativity

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Postlude - Choral  [YouTube]
  

Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
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Bach Cantata 28 for the First Sunday after Christmas Day:

Fra Angelico, Presentation (detail), Museo di San Marco, Florence, 1442



Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende / Praise God! Now the year comes to an end, Cantata 28, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.
 

December 24-25, 2012

Click to go to the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Dec. 23, 2012.



Martin Schongauer, Nativity, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, c.1475
  
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes 
Christmas 

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The organ voluntaries for the Christmas Day Choral Eucharist are by Louis-Claude Daquin. Click to hear all 12 of Daquin's Noëls performed by Pierre Bardon at the eighteenth century Isnard organ of the Saint Mary Magdalene Basilica in Saint-Maximin-en-Provence.



                                                       

Once in Royal David's City sung by Edward Burrowes and the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scottconducting. (The painting is by Piero della Francesca, 1470, and hangs in the National Gallery, London.)

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California Boys' Choir

One of Benjamin Britten's very popular accomplishments is his Ceremony of Carols.

Click to read about the Ceremony of Carols.

Click to hear the Ceremony of Carols performed by the California Boys’ Choir. 

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Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, The Nativity, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1445

Online performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, with versions conducted by Georg Christoph Biller / Riccardo Chailly / Diego Fasolis / Phillip Ledger / Karl Münchinger) 

Cantata I for the 1st Day of Christmas 

Cantata II for the 2nd Day of Christmas 

Cantata III for the 3rd Day of Christmas 

Cantata IV for New Year's Day 

Cantata V for the Sunday after New Year 

Cantata VI for the Feast of Epiphany

 

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a video performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, to begin their year long Cantata Pilgrimage. Soprano: Claron McFadden; Alto: Bernarda Fink; Tenor: Christoph Genz; Bass: Dietrich Henschel. [YouTube]

Video performance by Rachel Harnisch, soprano; Sonja Philippin, soprano (echo); Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano; Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Evangelist); Christian Immler, bass; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Peter Dijkstra, conducting.  Recorded at Herkulessaal, Residenz München, 2010 [YouTube]

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Vittore Carpaccio, Flight into Egypt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1500

Click to go to an online performance of Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ, about the flight into Egypt, with Nicolai Gedda, Victoria de los Angeles, Ernest Blan, Roger Soyer, the René Duclos Choir, l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens conducting.

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No.3



 
Mass of the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory (Molto Adagio)  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Paraphrase  [YouTube]
  
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
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Bach Cantatas for Christmas Day

Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Nativity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, 1475

 Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Christen, ätzet diesen Tag / Christians, engrave this day, Cantata 63, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe,  Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink, Onofri, Pickett and Richter.

 Click Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ / Praised be you, Jesus Christ, Cantata 91, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt and Leusink.

 Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens / May our mouth be filled with laughter, Cantata 110, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.
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Click here to go to Heinrich Schütz, History of the Joyful and Merciful Birth of the Son of God and Mary, Jesus Christ, our only Mediator, Redeemer and Saviour (Die Weihnachtshistorien / The Christmas Story), performed by Franz-Josef Selig, Michael Volle, Peter Kooy, Thomas Herberich, Andrea Egeler, et al; Kammerchor Stuttgart, Musica Fiata Köln, Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra; Frieder Bernius conducting.

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 Click on artist(s) for a wide selection of Christmas Carols:


American Boychoir (1996); 

Bryn Terfel; 

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, etc. by King's College, Cambridge;


Clare College Singers and Orchestra, Cambridge (John Rutter) (1988);


Clare College Singers and Orchestra, Cambridge (John Rutter (2009)


Eileen Farrell; 

Harrow Philharmonic Choir; Huddersfield Choral Society; 


King's College, Cambridge (2003);


King's College, Cambridge (2004); 


King's College, Cambridge (2007);


Taverner Consort (Andrew Parrott) (1999);


Taverner Consort (Andrew Parrott) (2007); 


Trinity College, Cambridge (Richard Marlow);


Windsor Choir of St. George's Chapel.


 
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