January 1, 2015

Workshop of Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Jesus, National Gallery, London, c. 1500

After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb [Luke 2:21].

Click to go to December 24,25 and 28, 2014. 

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
New Year's Day

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist, Eucharistie chantée and Evensong 

3) The Concert Calendar

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L’Oasis Musicale presents Jonathan Bailey, flute, and Geneviève Beaudet, piano, in La Flûte de la Francophonie at Christ Church Cathedral, Saturday, January 3, 2015, at 4:30 pm.  Voluntary donation.

Programme:

Sonate pour flûte et piano [Meira: YouTube], Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) (France)

Tangente au Yanalou pour flûte et piano [Jun: YouTube], Julio Racine (b. 1945) (Haiti)

Sonate pour flûte et piano, Denis Bédard (b. 1950) (Québec)

Ballade pour flûte et piano [YouTube], Franck Martin (1890-1974) (Suisse)

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On the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6,  immediately following the 12:15 pm Eucharist, Patrick Wedd will perform at the 1980 Wilhelm organ the following programme (Admission free):

Einige canonische Veränderungen über das Wienachtslied “Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her”, BWV 769a

                  Canon all’ottava

        Canon alla quinta

        Canon all settima

        Canon per augmentationem

        Canto fermo in canone

[Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

    

Les Mages (La Nativité du Seigneur) [Bate: musicMe], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223 [Bardon: musicMe], Dietrich Buxtehude(1637-1707)

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern [YouTube], Joseph Ahrens (1904-97)

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Click to go to Bach Cantatas for Online Listening.

Pellegrino da San Daniele, Circumcision (detail), Sant'Antonio Abate in San Daniele del Friuli, Italy, 1549

Bach Cantatas for New Year's Day

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr Gott, dich loben wir / Lord God, we praise you, Cantata 16, with performances by Gardiner (2), Leonhardt, Leusink and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Jesu, nun sei gepreiset / Jesus, now be praised, Cantata 41, with performances by Coin, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink, Ramin and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht / Time, which makes days and years,Cantata 134a, with performances by Koopman, Rilling, and Unger.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele / Praise the Lord, my soul, Cantata 143, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt, Leusink, and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm / God, as your name, so also is your fame, Cantata 171, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied! / Sing to the Lord a new song!, Cantata 190, with performances by Biller, Gardiner, Koopman and Richter.     

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No. 5 and 6

 

Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans

Mass of the Feast of the Circumcision, No. 5 

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]

Offertory  [YouTube] 
Elevation [YouTube] 
Communion [YouTube] 
Fantasy and Choral  [YouTube]

Mass of the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, No. 6

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]

Offertory  [YouTube] 
Elevation [YouTube] 
Communion [YouTube] 
Fantasy and Choral  [YouTube]

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

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Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, The Nativity, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1445

Online performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, with versions conducted by Georg Christoph Biller / Riccardo Chailly / Diego Fasolis / Gardiner (1st recording) / Herreweghe /Phillip Ledger / Karl Münchinger) 

Cantata I for the 1st Day of Christmas

Cantata II for the 2nd Day of Christmas

Cantata III for the 3rd Day of Christmas

Cantata IV for New Year's Day

Cantata V for the Sunday after New Year

Cantata VI for the Feast of Epiphany 

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a video performance ofBach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, to begin their year long Cantata Pilgrimage. Soprano: Claron McFadden; Alto:Bernarda Fink; Tenor: Christoph Genz; Bass: DietrichHenschel. [YouTube]

Nicholas Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus Wien and soloists of the Tolzer Knabenchor, Chorusmaster: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden; Peter Schreier - Tenor, Robert Holl - Bass.

Cantata 1-3 [YouTube]; Cantata 4-6 [YouTube]

Click for text and translation from Hyperion Records.  Begins page 7.

December 24-25 and 28, 2014

Click to go to the Choir Notes for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2014.

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes

Christmas and the Sunday after Christmas

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

2) The Music Calendar for Choral Eucharist, Eucharistie chantée and Evensong

3) The Concert Calendar / L'Oasis Musicale.

Sandro Botticelli, Mystic Nativity, National Gallery, London, 1501

 

The organ voluntaries for the Christmas Day Choral Eucharist are by Louis-Claude Daquin. Click to hear all 12 of Daquin's Noëls performed by Pierre Bardon at the eighteenth century Isnard organ of the Saint Mary Magdalene Basilica in Saint-Maximin-en-Provence.

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Once in Royal David's City is the recessional hymn at the 10 am Choral Eucharist on the Sunday after Christmas.  Listen and watch as it is sung by Edward Burrowes and the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott conducting. (The painting is by Piero della Francesca, 1470, and hangs in the National Gallery, London.) [text] [YouTube]

California Boys' Choir

One of Benjamin Britten's very popular accomplishments is his Ceremony of Carols.

Click to read about the Ceremony of Carols.

Click to hear the Ceremony of Carols performed by the California Boys’ Choir.

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Martin Schongauer, Nativity (detail), Staatliche Museen, Berlin, c.1480

The Mass setting and Communion motet for 18h30 French Choral Eucharist on Christmas Eve is the work of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): O Magnum Mysterium.  The Communion motet for both Choral Eucharists on the Sunday after Christmas is William Byrd, O Magnum Mysterium.  Click to go to O Magnum Mysterium by a number of different composers.

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Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, The Nativity, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1445

Online performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, with versions conducted by Georg Christoph Biller / Riccardo Chailly / Diego Fasolis / Gardiner (1st recording) / Herreweghe / Phillip Ledger / Karl Münchinger) 

Cantata I for the 1st Day of Christmas

Cantata II for the 2nd Day of Christmas

Cantata III for the 3rd Day of Christmas

Cantata IV for New Year's Day

Cantata V for the Sunday after New Year

Cantata VI for the Feast of Epiphany

Video Performances:

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a video performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, to begin their year-long Cantata Pilgrimage. Soprano: Claron McFadden; Alto:Bernarda Fink; Tenor: Christoph Genz; Bass: Dietrich Henschel. [YouTube]

Nicholas Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus Wien and soloists of the Tolzer Knabenchor, Chorusmaster: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden; Peter Schreier - Tenor, Robert Holl - Bass.

Cantata 1-3 [YouTube]; Cantata 4-6 [YouTube]

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Vittore Carpaccio, Flight into Egypt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1500

Click to go to an online performance of Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ, about the flight into Egypt, with Nicolai Gedda, Victoria de los Angeles, Ernest Blan, Roger Soyer, the René Duclos Choir, l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens conducting.

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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Nativity Cycle, Op. 56: No.3

Performance by Georges Delvallée on the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix, Orléans

Mass of the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]

Offertory (Molto Adagio)  [YouTube]

Elevation [YouTube]

Communion [YouTube]

Paraphrase  [YouTube]

Mass of the Sunday in the Octave of the Nativity

Prelude for the Introit [YouTube]

Offertory  [YouTube]

Elevation [YouTube]

Communion [YouTube]

Postlude - 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.

Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Nativity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, 1475

Bach Cantatas for Christmas Day:

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Christen, ätzet diesen Tag / Christians, engrave this day, Cantata 63, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe,  Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink, Onofri, Pickett and Richter.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ / Praised be you, Jesus Christ, Cantata 91, with performances by Gardiner, Leonhardt and Leusink.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens / May our mouth be filled with laughter, Cantata 110, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt and Leusink.

Bach Cantatas for the Sunday after Christmas:

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende / Praise God! Now the year comes to an end, Cantata 28, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Richter.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Das neugeborne Kindelin / The new-born little child, Cantata 122, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe ,Leusink, and Rilling.

Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn / Step forward on the way of faith,  Cantata152, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Jürgens,Kussmaul, Leusink, Rilling and Thomas.

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Click here to go to Heinrich Schütz, History of the Joyful and Merciful Birth of the Son of God and Mary, Jesus Christ, our only Mediator, Redeemer and Saviour (Die Weihnachtshistorien / The Christmas Story), performed by Franz-Josef Selig, Michael Volle, Peter Kooy, Thomas Herberich, Andrea Egeler, et al; Kammerchor Stuttgart, Musica Fiata Köln, Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra; Frieder Bernius conducting.

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Click on artist(s) for a wide selection of Christmas Carols:

American Boychoir (1996);

Bryn Terfel;

 

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, etc. by King's College, Cambridge;

Clare College Singers and Orchestra, Cambridge (John Rutter) (The Holly and the Ivy);

Clare College Singers and Orchestra, Cambridge (John Rutter (2007)

Eileen Farrell;  

Harrow Philharmonic Choir;

Huddersfield Choral Society;

King's College, Cambridge (2003);

King's College, Cambridge (2007);

Taverner Consort (Andrew Parrott) (1999);

Taverner Consort (Andrew Parrott) (2007);

Trinity College, Cambridge (Richard Marlow);

Windsor Choir of St. George's Chapel.