Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes: September 2012

Fritz Eichenberg, The Peaceable Kingdom

"Be at peace with one another [NRSV, Mark 9:50b]."

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 30, 2012

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar.

Leon Boëllmann (1862-1897)

2012 is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Leon Boëllmann. The organ voluntaries at Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday are taken from his Suite gothique.

Performance of the entire Suite gothique, Op. 25 (1895) (Choral, Menuit gothique, Prière à Notre-Dame, Toccata) by Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin at the 1862 Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Sulpice, Paris. [musicMe]

Suite gothique, Op. 25, movements I, II, and IV, performed by Marie-Claire Alain also at the 1862 Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Sulpice, Paris. [YouTube]

Suite gothique, Op. 25, performed by Michael Pohl at the 2000 Woehl organ of Thomaskirche, Leipzig [Grooveshark]

Click to hear the entire Deuxième Suite (Prélude pastoral, Allegretto con moto, Andantino, Final-marche) performed by Piet van der Steen at the 1972 Schreurs organ of the Allemanskerk (Sint-Martinskerk), Ouskarspel.

Performance of the Suite gothique, Op. 25, and the Deuxième Suite by Philippe Lefebre at the 1890 Debierre organ of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port, Saint-Louis de Nantes [BNQ; BM] (info).

Intermezzo and Carillon from Douze Pièces, Op. 16 (1890) performed by Piet van der Steen at the 1972 Schreurs organ of the Allemanskerk (Sint-Martinskerk), Ouskarspel [listen]

Fantaisie, performed by Piet van der Steen at the 1972 Schreurs organ of the Allemanskerk (Sint-Martinskerk), Ouskarspel. [listen]

Les Heures mystiques, Op. 29-30, is composed of 8 Masses with 50 individual pieces [click here]. There is a scattering for listening to be found on YouTube but without order. [YouTube]

Click to go to a two-hour programme of Leon Boëllmann organ music on Pipedreams.

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1888 Wadsworth / 1909 Warren / 1938 Casavant, Opus 1608, organ of Saint James United Church, Montreal

Click to go to the brochure of the 14th Autumn Festival Orgue et Couleurs from Friday, September 21, to Sunday, September 30. There are free organ recitals at noon, Tuesday, September 25, and Thursday, September 27.

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1990 Guilbault-Thérien, Opus 35, organ of the Grand Séminaire, Montreal

Le FESTIVAL DES COULEURS de l'orgue français

18th season, autumn 2012

The Sundays of October 2012 at 3:00 pm

                October 7:       Yves-G. Préfontaine

October 14:       Érik Reinart

       October 21:       Jean-Willy Kunz

       October 28:       Jean-Luc Perrot

The recitals are free, thanks to the support of Rona.
The Chapel of the Grand Séminaire du Montréal

2065 Sherbrooke Ouest

(Métro Guy-Concordia, autobus 24)

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56, No. 45.

Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 3-manual 1888 Puget organ of Nôtre Dame de la Dalbade, Toulouse

Mass of the 18th Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]

Offertory [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]

Alleluiatic Choral No. 3 [YouTube]

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

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Bach Cantatas for the Seventeenth 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.

Francisco de Zurbaran, Agnus Dei, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1635-40

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter [NRSV, Jeremiah 11:19a].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 23, 2012

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar.

William Byrd's music is featured at evensong this coming Sunday.

William Byrd

(1540-1623)

Click to read about William Byrd in Wikipedia.

"In 1593 he [William Byrd] moved with his family to the small village of Stondon Massey in Essex, and spent the remaining thirty years of his life there, devoting himself more and more to music for the Roman liturgy. He published his three settings of the Mass Ordinary between 1592 and 1595, and followed them in 1605 and 1607 with his two books of Gradualia, an elaborate year-long musical cycle." --- Wikipedia on William Byrd.

Byrd's Masses for Three, Four, and Five Voices performed 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: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei]

Performance of the Mass for Four Voices by The Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier conducting. [Grooveshark]

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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1888 Wadsworth / 1909 Warren / 1938 Casavant, Opus 1608, organ of Saint James United Church, Montreal

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1990 Guilbault-Thérien, Opus 35, organ of the Grand Séminaire, Montreal

Le FESTIVAL DES COULEURS de l'orgue français

18th season, autumn 2012

The Sundays of October 2012 at 3:00 pm

                October 7:       Yves-G. Préfontaine

October 14:       Érik Reinart

       October 21:       Jean-Willy Kunz

       October 28:       Jean-Luc Perrot

The recitals are free, thanks to the support of Rona.

The Chapel of the Grand Séminaire du Montréal

2065 Sherbrooke Ouest

(Métro Guy-Concordia, autobus 24)

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Cycle after Pentecost, Op. 56, No. 44.

Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 3-manual 1888 Puget organ of Nôtre Dame de la Dalbade, Toulouse

Mass of the 17th Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]

Offertory [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]

Alleluiatic Choral No. 2 [YouTube]

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

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Bach Cantatas for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity:

Giovanni Battista Naldini, Raising of the Son of the Widow of Naim, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1570-80

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben? Dearest God, when shall I die? Cantata 8, with performances by Gardiner, Herreweghe, Leonhardt, Leusink, Rifkin, Rilling and Thomas.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wer weiß, wie nahe mirmein Ende? / Who knows how near my end is to me? Cantata 27, with performances by Gardiner, Kuijken, Leusink, and Richter.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Christus, der ist mein Leben / Christ is my life, Cantata 95, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Suzuki.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, du süße Todesstunde / Come, sweet hour of death, Cantata 161, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink, Linde, Sándor, Schröder and Thomas.