Christ Appearing to his Disciples, Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos, 14th cent.
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you [NRSV, John 20:19]."
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
2nd Sunday of Easter
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist and Evensong
3) The Concert Calendar.
Two of the organ voluntaries this coming Sunday are organ interpretations of O filii et filiae. Click to read about O filii et filiae and listen to a number of choral and organ versions.
Il Baciccio, The Women at the Tomb, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c.1685
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The spring concert of Musica Orbium, Patrick Wedd directing, celebrates Poulenc and Broadway.
Kerry-Anne Kutz, soprano
Anne-Marie Denoncourt, piano
Pamela Reimer, piano
Sunday April 14, 7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
635, Sainte-Catherine West
Montréal (Québec) H3A 2B8
Metro McGill
Regular ticket: $25
Senior, Student, Unemployed: $15
Anne-Marie Denoncourt, piano
Pamela Reimer, piano
Sunday April 14, 7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
635, Sainte-Catherine West
Montréal (Québec) H3A 2B8
Metro McGill
Regular ticket: $25
Senior, Student, Unemployed: $15
Click to order your ticket through PayPal.
By way of preparation, click to hear Francis Poulenc, Gloria, performed by Kathleen Battle (Soprano), the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa conducting.
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: Nos. 16, 17, 18
Performance on the 4-manual 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ of the former Abbey of Saint-Ouen, Rouen
Mass of Holy Saturday:
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Choral music for the Second Sunday of Easter:
Peter Paul Rubens, The Incredulity of Thomas, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1613-15
Quia vidisti me, Thoma, credidisti: beati qui non viderunt et crediderunt. Alleluia.
Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Alleluia.
(John 20:29)
Hans Leo Hassler performed by the Canticum Camerale [YouTube]
Luca Marenzio by the Madrigals of Grace Episcopal Church [YouTube]
Estevão de Brito performed by the Coro Vox Aetherea and the Capela Gregoriana Psalterium, Alberto Medina de Seiça conducting [YouTube]
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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for Online Listening.
Bach Cantatas for Quasimodogeniti Sunday (Second Sunday of Easter):
Duccio di Buoninsgna, Jesus Appears, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena, 1308-11
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats / On the evening of the same sabbath, Cantata 42, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe and Leusink.