Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes: April 2012

James Tissot, The Good Shepherd, Brooklyn Museum, 1986-94

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes

Fourth Sunday of Easter

April 29, 2012

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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Rachelle Choi, assistant organist at Christ Church Cathedral, will perform her final recital for a Master’s degree in organ performance from McGill University on Friday, April 27, at the Casavant organ of L’Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, corner of rue Rachel and rue Drolet (Mount Royal Metro) at 8:00 pm. Admission free.

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Programme:

Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), Allegro from Symphonie No. 6, Op. 42, No. 2

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Les Bergers (The Shepherds), Les Anges (the Angels), Les Mages (The Magi) from La Nativité du Seigneur

César Franck (1822-1890), Cantabile en Si Majeur / in B major

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Fugue in As moll WoO 8 / in A-flat minor

Max Reger (1873-1916), Fantasie und Fugue d-moll, Op. 135b / Fantasia and Fugue in D minor

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To prepare, listen free online:

Charles-Marie Widor, Allegro from Symphonie No. 6, Op. 42 No. 2, performed by Ben van Oosten at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Ouen Church, Rouen [YouTube]

Olivier Messiaen, Les Bergers (The Shepherds) [musicMe], Les Anges (the Angels)[musicMe],Les Mages (The Magi) [musicMe], from La Nativité du Seigneur, performed by Olivier Latry at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

César Franck, Cantabile en Si Majeur / in B major, performed by Michael Murray at the Cavaillé-Coll Organ of the Basilica of Saint Sernin, Toulouse, France. [YouTube]

Johannes Brahms, Fugue in As moll WoO 8 / in A-flat minor, performed by Daryl Robinson at the Martin Pasi Op. 19 organ, Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Houston, Texas. [YouTube]

Max Reger, Fantasie und Fugue d-moll, Op. 135b / Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, performed by Paolo Crivellaro at the Masconi organ of the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Gallarate, Italy [YouTube: Part 1; Part II]

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The music of Thomas Tomkins is featured at evensong this coming Sunday.

St. Mary's Gate, Worcester, (later known as Edgar Tower)

Through which Tomkins would have walked on his frequent trips to London

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Click to read about Thomas Tomkins in Wikipedia.

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Thomas Tomkins, See, see, the shepherd's queen [text], performed by The Virtual Wylbye Consort (single Japanese male voice). [Listen]

Performance by The MacKay Choral Society [YouTube]

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Michiel van der Borch, Death of Absalom, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1332

Click to read about and listen to several versions of Thomas Tomkins, When David heard.

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Thomas Tomkins, Funeral Sentences by the Oxford Camerata; Laurence Cummings, organ; Jeremy Summerly conducting. [YouTube]
Thomas Tomkins, Magnificat from The Fifth Service by the Oxford Camerata; Laurence Cummings, organ; Jeremy Summerly conducting. [YouTube]

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Too much I once lamented, While love my heart tormented, Fa la la ... Alas and Ay me sat I wringing; Now chanting go, and singing. Fa la la ...

Thomas Tomkins, Too much I once lamented, by The King's Singers [YouTube]

Performance by Anna Molnár and Viktor Magyaróvári [YouTube]

Performance by Belle a Cappella [YouTube]

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Good Shepherd, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, 2nd-3rd century

Thomas Tomkins, My shepherd is the living Lord [text], by the Worcester Cathedral choir; Raymond Johnston, organist; Donald Hunt conducting. [YouTube]

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Thomas Tomkins, A Fancy for Two to Play. [YouTube]

Thomas Tomkins, In Nomine, by Margaret Fabrizio on the Fisk Organ at Stanford University. [YouTube]

Thomas Tomkins, Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times, by Kevin Gray. [YouTube]

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Click to go to works by Thomas Tomkins performed by Rostislaw Wygranienko: A Sad Pavan for these Distracted Times; The Hunting Galliard; Voluntary in C (Ferrara); Voluntary in C (Breitenburg).

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Works of Thomas Tomkins performed by the Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting:

Liner notes with lyrics [CML] (info)

Third or "Great" Service:

Te Deum [NML] (info)
Jubilate [NML] (info)
Magnificat [NML] (info)
Nunc dimittis [NML] (info)

Anthems:

When David heard [NML] (info)

Then David mourned [NML] (info)
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom [NML] (info)
Woe is me that I am constrained [NML] (info)
Be strong and of a good courage [NML] (info)
O sing unto the Lord a new song [NML] (info)
O God, the proud are risen against me [NML] (info)

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Thomas Tomkins, Songs, performed by the Budapest Tomkins Vocal Ensemble; Janos Dobra conducting [NML] (info)

The fauns and satyrs tripping
Phyllis, now cease to move me
Phyllis, yet see him dying

Come, shepherds, sing with me
To the shady woods
See, see the sheperd's Queen
O let me live for true love
O let me die for true love
Oyez! Has any found a lad?
Weep no more, thou sorry Boy
Yet again, as soon revived
Was ever wretch tormented?
Music divine
It is my well-beloved's voice
Cloris, when as I woo
Too much I once lamented
Woe is me
Turn unto the ord
When David heard
Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers
Fusca, in thy starry eyes
When I observe
Oft did I marie

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Tomkins: Third Service, Anthems and Voluntaries performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford; David Burchell organ; Edward Higginbottom conducting [CML] (info)

liner notes with lyrics [ CML] (info)

Third Service "Great": Te Deum

In nomine
Third Service "Great": Jubilate
Third Service "Great": Magnificat
Voluntary for Keyboard in G major
Third Service "Great": Nunc dimittis
Voluntary for Keyboard in C major
Know you not
Voluntary for Keyboard in A minor
O Lord, let me know mine end
O that the salvation were given

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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen / Weeping, lamenting, worry, apprehension, Cantata 12, with performances by Cleobury, Gardiner, Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink, Rilling, Suzuki. and Thomas .

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ihr werdet weinen und heulen / You will weep and howl, Cantata 103, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal / We must enter through much sorrow, Cantata 146, with performances by Fasolis, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Rilling.

Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Jesus with cross and crown of thorns

Christopher Slatoff, Saint Peter Preaching at Pentecost

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes

Third Sunday of Easter

April 22, 2012

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar.

Orlande de Lassus

The Mass setting and all four motets this coming Sunday are the work of Orlande de Lassus.

Complete discs of de Lassus music for free online listening are available from musicMe. Click on the appropriate title.

Lassus: La Chambre musicale d'Albert le magnifique, performed by the ensemble L'Échelle.

Lassus - Lamentationes Jeremiæ Prophetæ by Collegium Regale, Stephen Cleobury conducting.

Roland de Lassus: Magnum opus musicum by the Choeur de chambre de Namur and La Fenice, Jean Tubery conducting.

Roland de Lassus : Biographie musicale, vol. 1. Années de jeunesse by Ludus Modalis, Bruno Boterf conducting.

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Shawn Potter, organ scholar at Christ Church Cathedral, will perform his final recital for a Master’s degree in organ performance from McGill University this coming Saturday, April 21, at the 1961 Beckerath organ in l’Église Immaculée-Conception, 1855 rue Rachel est (directions), at 1pm. Admission free.

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Programme:

Jacob Praetorius, Vater unser im Himmelreich (7 versets / 7 verses)

Heinrich Scheidemann, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her (4 versets / 4 verses)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ricercar del nono tono

Matthias Weckmann, Es ist das Heyl uns kommen her (7 versets / 7 verses)

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To prepare, listen free online:

Jacob Praetorius, Vater unser im Himmelreich (7 versets / 7 verses), performed by William Porter at the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka, Gothenburg, Sweden. [BNQ;BM] (info)

Heinrich Scheidemann, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her (4 versets / 4 verses), performed by William Porter at the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka, Gothenburg, Sweden. [BNQ;BM] (info)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ricercar del nono tono, performed by James David Christie at the 1984 Fritts-Richards organ in St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church, Seattle, Washington. To listen click here, then click on “listen to the program,” then hold button and slide to 17:23 (17 minutes and 23 seconds). A brief commentary by Michael Barone begins at 16:03.

Matthias Weckmann, Es ist das Heyl uns kommen her (7 versets / 7 verses), performed by Wolfgang Zerer at the Sherer/Fritsche/Schnitger(1693)/Ahrend(1993) organ in the St. Jacobi Church, Hamburg, Germany. [BNQ; BM] (info)

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Music Orbium, directed by Patrick Wedd, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B-minor, on Sunday, April 22, at 7:30 pm, at l'Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, 1201, rue de la Visitation, Montréal.

Hélène Brunet, soprano; Stéphanie Manias, soprano; Claudine Ledoux, mezzo-soprano; Philippe Gagné, tenor; Normand Richard, bass; and the Ensemble Caprice.

Click for more information and the possibility of purchasing tickets online.

Get ready by listening and watching on YouTube from the Marienmünster in Diessen am Ammersee, Bavaria, a complete performance of the Bach B-minor Mass by Gundula Janowitz, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; Horst R. Laubenthal, tenor; Hermann Prey, bass; Münchener Bach Orchester und Chor; Karl Richter conducting. [YouTube] [text]

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Programme:

Max Reger (1873-1916), Fantasie und Fugue d-moll, Op. 135b / Fantasia and Fugue in D minor

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To prepare, listen free online:

Charles-Marie Widor, Allegro from Symphonie No. 6, Op. 42 No. 2, performed by Ben van Oosten at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Ouen Church, Rouen [YouTube]

Olivier Messiaen, Les Bergers (The Shepherds) [musicMe], Les Anges (the Angels)[musicMe],Les Mages (The Magi)[musicMe], from La Nativité du Seigneur, performed by Olivier Latry at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

César Franck, Cantabile en Si Majeur / in B major, performed by Michael Murray at the Cavaillé-Coll Organ of the Basilica of Saint Sernin, Toulouse, France. [YouTube]

Johannes Brahms, Fugue in As moll WoO 8 / in A-flat minor, performed by Daryl Robinson at the Martin Pasi Op. 19 organ, Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Houston, Texas. [YouTube]

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Eric Gill, Good Shepherd, Tate Collections, London, 1926

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich bin ein guter Hirt / I am a good shepherd, Cantata 85, with performances by Coin, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Huggett, Leusink and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Du Hirte Israel, höre / You Shepherd of Israel, Listen, Cantata 104, with performances by Gardiner, Koopman, Leusink, Richter, Rilling and Suzuki.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt / The Lord is my faithful shepherd, Cantata 112, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Rotzsch.