November 24, 2013


  The Good Shepherd, Museo Pio Cristiano, Vatican, 4th cent.

I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord [NRSV, Jeremiah 23:4].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
The Reign of Christ



Kenneth Leighton is the featured composer this coming Sunday at Choral Evensong. Listen to a variety of works by Kenneth Leighton (unidentified performances).

Suite "Veris Gratia" - IV. Epilogue: Sostenuto Ma Con Moto [listen]

Rockingham: Choral Prelude on 'When I survey the wondrous Cross' [listen]

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 'Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense' ● Magnificat [listen]

Veni creator spiritus [listen]

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 'Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense' ● Nunc Dimittis [listen]

Give me the wings of faith [listen]

An Easter Sequence ● Communion (for 2nd Sunday after Easter) [listen]

An Easter Sequence ● Sortie (Antiphon, 1st Vespers of Ascension) [listen]

Crucifixus Pro Nobis, Op.38 ● Christ in the garden [listen]

Six Studies [listen]

Crucifixus Pro Nobis, Op.38 ● Christ in his passion [listen]

An Easter Sequence ● Offertory (for 1st Sunday after Easter) [listen]

Crucifixus Pro Nobis, Op.38 ● Christ in the cradle [listen]

What love is this of thine [listen]

The Second Service, Op.62 ● Nunc Dimittis [listen]

The Second Service, Op.62 ● Magnificat [listen]

An Easter Sequence ● Gradual (for 1st Sunday after Easter) [listen]

Click to go to a number of works by Kenneth Leighton on YouTube.


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Saturday 23rd November 2013

4:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal
Ste-Catherine / University (Métro McGill)

Freewill donation

Duo Rêverie
flûte  &  harpe  celtique
Music for Advent
 


Hannah Roberts Brockow, Celtic harp 
 Jonathan Bailey, flute

The World hears the Message

Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen

O Come, O Come Emmanuel / Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Veni, Redemptor gencium / Redeemer of the Nations Come

O Sanctissima
Mary hears the Message
 
Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sang
Basque Carol (The Angel Gabriel) 
The Shepherds hear the Angels’ Message

Cold December Winds
Nowell Sing We / Noël Nouvelet
Angelus ad Virginem / Besançon Carol (Berger, secoue) / The Angels and the Shepherds
Salten y Ballen /  Un flambeau, Jeanette, Isabella
What Child is This?
Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day
 

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Click to go to a two-hour programme of the choral and organ music of Benjamin Britten on Pipedreams (PBS).


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


Mark McDonald and Adrian Foster of the Cathedral music programme will perform on November 29 and December 6.  See below.

Fridays from November 1 to December 6 at 12:30 pm


November 22: William Porter application/pdf iconProgramme 


November 29: Mark McDonald application/pdf iconProgramme

December 6: Mark McDonald, Adrian Foster, Jonathan Vromet

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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for Online Listening.




Hieronymus Bosch, Last Judgment, Groenige Museum, Bruges
 
Bach Cantata 70 for the 26th Sunday after Trinity:

 

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! / Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!, Cantata 70, with performances by Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink, Richter, and Rilling.