May 27, 2027



 Juan de Flandes, Pentecost, Museo del Prado, Madrid

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit 
[NRSV, Acts 2:4a].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Pentecost
May 27, 2012

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The 18th Century Louis XIII Gallery Organcase of Rheims Cathedral Installed while Nicolas de Grigny was Organist.
 
The organ voluntaries for evensong on Pentecost are Nicolas de Grigny's versets on Veni Creator.

Click to go to James Pressler's virtual performance of de Grigny, Premier Livre d'orgue (First Organ Book) which includes Veni Creator.  The entire work can be streamed or individual movements played by clicking on the "notes."
Performance of Nicolas de Grigny, Premier Livre d'orgue (including the versets of Veni Creator Spiritus) by John Grew on the 1981 Wolff organ of Redpath Hall, McGill University) [BNQ; BM] (info).
Performance of Michel Chapuis at the 1750 Valtrin / 1848 Callinet / 1971 Schwenkedel organ of the Cathedral of Saint Christopher, Belfort [YouTube]

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Jean Restout II, Pentecost, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1732
 


Anonymous medieval:

  
Niederaltaich Scholars, Kenneth Ruhland conducting [musicMe] (info)

Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos   [YouTube then click on 54:09)]

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Veni, Sancte Spiritus of Taizé by Les Pauvres de Saint-François [YouTube]

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John Rutter by The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury conducting [YouTube] 

Arvo Pårt, Veni Sancte Spiritus from the Berliner Messe, by the Academy of Choral Art Choir, Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov conducting [BNQ; BM] (info)

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 Emil Nolde, Pentecost, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1909


Click to go to Olivier Messiaen, Messe de Pentecôte, performed by Olivier Latry on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris.

Versions on the Naxos Music Library (info): Erik Bostrom [BNQ; BM] Tim Byram-Wigfield [BNQ; BM] Catherine Crozier [BNQ; BM] Hans-Ola Ericsson [BNQ; BM] Christian Praestholm [NML; BM]. 









 
Corrado Giaquinto, The Holy Spirit, Private Collection, 1750s
 
Veni, Creator Spiritus


Click for text in Latin and English.

  

Recorded in Taizé [Grooveshark] 

Rabanus Maurus performed by the Coro Paer [listen]

Magnus Perotinus by the Hilliard Ensemble [Grooveshark]  (info)

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 Josquin Desprez, Veni Sancte Spiritus, by The Hilliard Ensemble [YouTube]
 
Josquin des Prez, Veni Creator Spiritus, sung by the boys of Chavagnes International School [YouTube]


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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: No. 25

Performance on the 4-manual 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ of the former Abbey of Saint-Ouen, Rouen, by Georges Delvallée
 
Mass of the Feast of Pentecost 

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

Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.

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Four Bach Cantatas for Whitsuntide.
Anthony Van Dyck, Descent of the Holy Spirit, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1620

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach,Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten / Who loves me will keep my word, Cantata 59, with performances by Gardiner (2), Harnoncourt, Leusink and Schröder.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten / Whoever loves me will keep my word, Cantata 74, with performances by Gardiner (2), Leonhardt and Leusink.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! /Ring out, you songs, resound, you strings!,Cantata 172, with performances by Gardiner (2), Leonhardt and Leusink.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen / He calls his own sheep by name,  
Cantata 175, with performances by Coin, Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and Richter.


May 20, 2012


Workshop of Simone Martini, Saint Matthias, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1317-19


Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers [NRSV, Psalm 1:1].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 20, 2012

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3) The Concerts Cathédrale Calendar.

The Mass setting for this coming Sunday is William Byrd, Mass for five voices.
 


William Byrd


William Byrd composed three Masses: one for three, four and five voices.

Performance of the three Masses by the Choir of Winchester Cathedral, David Hill conducting. [musicMe]

Performance of the three Masses by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, David Willcocks conducting. [musicMe]

Performance of the Mass for four voices by the Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips conducting. [YouTube]

Performance of the Mass for four voices by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus / Benedictus; Agnus Dei

Performance of the Mass for four voices by the Vassar College Choir, Christine Howlett conducting. [YouTube]

Performance of the Mass for five voices by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Philip Ledger conducting. [musicMe]
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The Virtual Byrd Choir is the sacred music unit of the Virtual Wilbye Consort.  Both activities, founded in Tokyo in 2001, rely on one Japanese male voice.

Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Four Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei), performed by the Virtual Byrd Choir.

Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Three Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei), performed by the Virtual Byrd Choir.

Click to hear Byrd, Mass for Five Voices (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei), performed by the Virtual Byrd Choir.
 
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 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber

Click  to hear The Ascension from Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber, The Rosary Sonatas, performed by John Holloway, Davitt Moroney and Tragicomedia.  Click to go to the entire work.

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: No. 24

Performance on the 4-manual 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ of the former Abbey of Saint-Ouen, Rouen, by Georges Delvallée
 
Mass for the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension

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

Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.


 C.B. Fisk Opus 116

Performance of Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: No. 24, by J. Melvin Butler at the Fisk organ of Finney Chapel, Oberlin College. 
This unusual recording features the new Aristide Cavaillé-Coll-style Fisk organ as it sounds in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College, and also as it might sound if it were in Chartres Cathedral. New recording technology makes it possible to create a mathematical model of a room's acoustics from measurements taken in the room itself. With sufficient computing power, a program can then place any sound (in this case, the sound of the Fisk organ at Oberlin) in the modelled acoustics.

Finney Chapel: [BNQ; BM]  (info)

Chartres Cathedral: [BNQ; BM]  (info)

Liner Notes: [BNQ; BM] (info)

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Johann Sebastian Bach cantatas for the 6th Sunday after Easter:


 Anthony Van Dyck, Descent of the Holy Spirit, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1620
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun / They will banish you, Cantata 44, with performances by Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun / They will put you under a ban, Cantata 183, with performances by Coin,  Harnoncourt and Leusink.
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