February 16, 2014


 Sir Edward Poynter, Paul and Apollos, Tate Collection, 1872


I [Paul] planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth [NRSV, 1 Cor. 3:6].


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  




Sixth Sunday after Epiphany


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1) The Music Programme Homepage


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


3) The Concert Calendar


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The organ voluntaries for evensong this coming Sunday, February 16, are by Olivier Messiaen from his Livre d’orgue (1951): Reprises by Intervention and Chants d'oiseaux. 







This coming Friday, February 12, at Redpath Hall of McGill University (Entrance by the McTavish Gates off the rue McTavish pedestrian walk) at 12:30 pm as part of the McGill noon-hour organ series, at The Wolff organ, Adrian Foster, assistant organist at Christ Church Cathedral, will perform the entire Livre d’orgue.


 
The Gallery Organ of l'Eglise de la Sainte Trinité, Paris



The Livre d’orgue is for Messiaen’s catalogue what The Art of the fugue is for Johann Sebastian Bach.


Olivier Messiaen, Livre d'orgue / Organ Book



1) Reprises par interversion  / Repetition by Intervention

2) Pièce en trio  (pour le dimanche de la Sainte Trinité) / Trio (for Trinity Sunday)

3) Les Mains de  l'abîme  (pour les temps de la pénitence) / The Hands of the Abyss (for Times of Penitence)

4) Chants d'oiseaux  (pour le temps paschal) / Birdsong (for Eastertide)

5) Pièce en trio (pour le dimanche de la Sainte Trinité) / Trio (for Trinity Sunday)

6) Les Yeux dans les roues (pour le dimanche de la Pentecôte)  / The Eyes in the Wheels (for Pentecost Sunday)

7) Soixante-Quatre durées / Sixty-four durations




Olivier Messiaen, Le Livre d'orgue, performed by the composer himself at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris [musicMe]






Olivier Latry performs Olivier Messiaen, Livre d'orgue at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris [musicMe]


Louis Thiry performs Olivier Messiaen, Livre d'orgue at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris [musicMe]