January 27, 2013

  Julius Schnorr, Esdras preaches the law, 1860
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up [NRSV, Nehemiah 8:5].



Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes 
3nd Sunday after Epiphany

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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 Dieterich Buxtehude

The organ voluntaries for Choral Eucharist last Sunday and this coming Sunday are the work of Dietrich Buxtehude.

Click to go to the complete organ works of  Dietrich Buxtehude performed by Bernard Foccroulle.

CD IV: Stockholm, St. Getruds Gemeinde, Gronlunds Organ; 

Click to go to the complete organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude performed by Ton Koopman.

Vol I: BuxWV 139, 141, 146, 156, 160, 162, 169, 178, 197, 210, 213, 220 - Coci/Klapmeyer organ, Altenbruch 

Vol II: BuxWV 157, 161, 163, 164, 170, 173-175, 177, 180-182, 184, 188, 211, 217, 223 - Wilde/Schnitger organ, Lüdingworth 

Vol III: BuxWV 149, 179, 225, 140, 185, 159, 148, 187, 176, 145, 183, 213-5, 137, 193, 200 - Schnitger organ, Hamburg 

Vol IV: BuxWV 138, 199, 172, 202, 224, 147, 196, 171, 219, 203, 144, 212, 201, 167, 186, 198, 190, 207, 189 - Gercke/Herbst organ, Basedow 

Vol V (parts 1 and 2): BuxWV 142, 209, 218, 136, 222, 155, 221, 151, 152, 191, 158, 204, 205, 150, 153, 194, 192, 143, 206, 208 and preludes in e (2) and G and a chorale prelude on "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" by Nicolaus Bruhns - Bielfeldt organ, Stade

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McGill University Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series
The Wolff organ of Redpath Hall
Admission Free

Fridays at 12:30 pm
 
January 25 - Jonathan Oldengarm

February 1 - Patrick Wedd

February 8 - John Grew

February 15 - Jean-Willy Kunz

March 22  - Alexandra Fol

April 5 - João Segurado

April 12 - Hans-Ola Ericsson

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: Nos. 10 and 12.
Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans
 
Mass of the 3rd Sunday after the Epiphany:
 
Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube] 
Postlude and Free Modal Fugue  [YouTube]

Mass of Septuagesima:

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube] 
Communion [YouTube] 
Clameurs and Choral  [YouTube]
  
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée. 
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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for Online Listening.
 
Bach Cantatas for Septuagesima Sunday:

Sir John Everett Millais, The Labourers in the Vineyard,  Tate Online, 1864

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke / I am content with my luck,
Cantata 84, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Leusink, and Scherchen.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich habe in Gottes Herz und Sinn / I have surrendered to God's heart and mind, Cantata 92, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink, and Richter.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin / Take what is yours and go on your way, Cantata 144, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink, Marriner, and Suzuki.


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Click to go to Stabat Mater for Online Listening. 


Gerard David, Crucifixion, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, c.1515

New Stabat Maters: 
 
Click to go to John Browne, Stabat Mater, by the Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott conducting.

Click to go to  Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Stabat Mater, by  Musica Sonora of Tucson, Arizona, Joel Schwindt conducting.

January 20, 2013


Giotto di Bondone, Marriage at Cana, Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padua, c.1305
Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him [NRSV, John 2:11].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  
2nd Sunday after Epiphany
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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Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

Eric Whitacre composed the anthem that will be sung at Choral Evensong this coming Sunday.

Lux Aurumque (literally, Light and Gold) is based on an English language poem by Edward Esch (Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly, to the new-born baby.) translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri (Lux, calida gravisque pura velut aurum, et canunt angeli moliter, modo natum).

Click for your choice of at least 69 different renditions of Luz Aurumque on YouTube.


Read about Eric Whitaker in Wikipedia. And in My Space where one can listen to audio clips.

For further reading on Eric Whitacre:

http://www.ericwhitacre.com/home.html

http://www.waltonmusic.com/whitacre.html

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Eric%20Whitacre

http://www.windband.org/foothill/pgm_note/notes_wx.htm#Whitacre

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No. 9.
Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans

Mass of the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany

   
Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]
Offertory  [YouTube]
Elevation [YouTube]
Communion [YouTube]
Fantasy - Paraphrase  [YouTube]
 
Click for the entire performance of L'Orgue mystique by Georges Delvallée.
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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for online listening.

Bach Cantatas for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany:

Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Wedding at Cana, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid / Ah God, how many a heartache, Cantata 3, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen / My sighs, my tears, Cantata 13, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink and Richter.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? / My God, how long, ah how long? Cantata 155, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.

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Click to go to Stabat Mater for Online Listening.



Adriaen Isenbrant, Our Lady of Sorrows, O.L. Vrouwkerk, Bruges, Early 16th cent.


New Stabat Maters:


Click to go to Antonio Bonocini, Stabat Mater, by the St. John's Choir, Cambridge, George Guest conducting and by the Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting.

Click to go to Claudio Casciolini, Stabat Mater, by the St. Martin Chamber Choir, Timothy Krueger conducting. 

 Click to go to Valdimir Martynov, Stabat Mater, by OPUS POSTH Ensemble, Tatiana Grindenko conducting.

 Click to go to Franz Schubert, Stabat Mater, by the Monteverdi Choir and l’Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner conducting; and by the National Taiwan University Chorus.
  

January 13, 2013

Piero della Francesca, Baptism of Christ, National Gallery, London, 1448-50

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove [NRSV, Luke 3:21-22a].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  
Baptism of the Lord

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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Giotto di Bondone, Three Miracles: Magi, Cana, Baptism; Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padua, 1304-06


Tribus Miraculis, which celebrates the the three epiphanies of our Lord: the adoration of the magi, the baptism, and the changing of water into wine at Cana, is the Magnificat antiphon at Roman Catholic Second Vespers for the Solemnity of the Epiphany.  In the version by Palestrina it is the Communion motet and the anthem at Choral Evensong this coming Sunday.

Tribus miraculis ornatum diem sanctum colimus:
hodie stella Magos duxit ad praesepium:
hodie vinum ex aqua factum est ad nuptias:
hodie in Jordane a Joanne Christus baptizari voluit,
ut salvaret nos. Alleluia.

We celebrate a day sanctified by three miracles:
today a star led the Wise Men to the manger;
today water was changed into wine at the marriage feast;
today Christ chose to be baptised by John in the Jordan
for our salvation. Alleluia

Gregorian Chant, by Giovanni Vianini [YouTube]

Gregorian Chant, by Nova Schola Gregoriana, Albert Turco conducting [musicMe]

Gregorian chant, by Pro Cantione Antiqua [Grooveshark]

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, by the Schola Cantorum of the Saint Gregory Society [listen]

Luca Marenzio, by the Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), John Scott conducting [YouTube] Click to read about.

Luca Marenzio, by the Choir of St. David’s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas [listen]

Hans Leo Hassler, by the Choir of Grace Church, Newark, João Kouyoumdjian conducting. [YouTube]

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 Sandro Botticelli, Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist (detail). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1488

Complete video performance of Richard Strauss, Salome, with Catherine Malfitano (Salome), Bryn Terfel (Jochanaan), Robert Gambill (Narraboth), Ruby Philogene (Page), Kenneth Riegel (Herod), Anja Silja (Herodias), The Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra and Chorus, Christoph von Dohnányi conducting. Subtitles in English. [YouTube] 
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No. 8.
Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans

Mass of the 1st Sunday after the Epiphany
 
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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Bach Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany:




Giotto di Bondone, Jesus among the Doctors, Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padua, c.1305

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen / Dearest Jesus, my desire, Cantata 32, with performances by Leonhardt, Leusink and Sarasa Ensemble.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht / I shall not let my Jesus go, Cantata 124, with performances by Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.
 
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren / My dearest Jesus is lost, Cantata 154, with performances by Harnoncourt, Leusink, and Suzuki.
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