Theophanes the Greek, Transfiguration, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,1408
Jesus was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them[NRSV, Mark 9:2b-3a].
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Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Transfiguration Sunday
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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 prelude for the 12h45 Eucharistie chantée this coming Sunday is Johannes Brahms, No. 5 of his Eleven Chorale Preludes, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele.
The Eleven Chorale Preludes, Op. 122, are a collection of chorale preludes for organ by Johannes Brahms, composed in 1896, and published posthumously in 1902. The eleven pieces are relatively short and are based on selected verses of nine separate Lutheran chorales.
Brahms’ Eleven Chorale Preludes performed by Bernard Lagacé, on the 1977 Helmuth Wolff organ at the Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City. [YouTube]
The complete organ works of Johannes Brahms, performed by Karol Golebiowski at the organ of the Heliga Trefaldighets Kyrka, Kristianstadt [musicMe]:
Chorale Prelude and Fugue on "O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid"
Fugue in A-flat minor
Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Eleven Chorale Preludes (1896):
Mein Jesu, der du mich
Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen
O Welt, ich muss dich lassen
Herzlich tut mich erfreuen
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen
O Gott, du frommer Gott
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Herzlich tut mich verlangen
Herzlich tut mich verlangen (second version)
O Welt, ich muss dich lassen (second version)
The complete organ works of Johannes Brahms performed by Robert Parkins at the 1976 Flentrop organ of Duke Chapel, Duke University, Durham, are available for free online listening through the Naxos Music Library. Check with your librarian. [BNQ; BM] (info)
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Olivier Messiaen, Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire a son Père, the 1st movement of L'Ascension, is the prelude this coming Sunday for Choral Evensong.
Garofalo, The Ascension of Christ, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, 1510-20
Olivier Latry performs
L'Ascension / The Ascension
1) Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire a son Père (Majesty of Christ Praying that His Father should glorify Him) [YouTube]
2) Alléluias sereins d'une ame qui désire le ciel (Serene Alleluias from a Soul Longing for Heaven) [YouTube]
3) Transports de joie d'une ame devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne (Transports of Joy from a Soul before the Glory of Christ which is its Own Glory) [YouTube]
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Olivier Messiaen, Les Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, No. VI, is the postlude for Choral Evensong this coming Sunday.
Olivier Messiaen, Méditations sur le mystère de Sainte-Trinité / Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity:
1) Le Père Inengendré: The Father Unengendered ("The Father of the Stars")
2) La Sainteté de Jésus Christ: The Holiness of Jesus Christ
3) La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l’essence: The True Relation to God is Actually Identical to the Essence
4) Je suis, Je suis !: I Am, I Am!
5) Dieu est immense, Éternel, Immuable. Le souffle de l’Esprit – Dieu est Amour: God is Immense, Eternal, Immovable - The Breath of the Spirit - God is Love
7) Le Père et le Fils aiment par le Saint-Esprit eux mêmes et nous: The Father and the Son Love, Through the Holy Spirit, Themselves and Us
8) Dieu est simple: God is simple
9) Je suis Celui qui suis: I Am Who I Am
Click here to go to a performance by Charles Thompson at the 1927 E.M. Skinner / 1963 Aeolian-Skinner organs of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Performance of Thomas Daniel Schlee at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of l'Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris [musicMe]
Performance by Olivier Latry on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris. [YouTube]
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McGill University Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series
The Wolff organ of Redpath Hall - Admission Free
Fridays to February 28 at 12:30 pm
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Charles Tournemire, L'orgue mystique: Easter Cycle, Op. 56: No. 14
Mass of Quinquagesima
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Unknown Catalan Master, Christ and the Twelve, Barcelona, c. 1100
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantatas for Quinquagesima Sunday (Estomihi) in the traditional Lutheran Church Year:
Transfiguration Sunday: Johann Sebastian Bach did not compose a cantata for the Transfiguration but Cantata 22 makes allusion to Mt. Tabor and the Transfiguration.
Performance of Cantata 22 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt and Pieter Jan Leusink. [text/listen]
Performance of Cantata 23 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt, Pieter Jan Leusink and Karl Richter [text/listen]
Performance of Cantata 127 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Gustav Leonhardt and Pieter Jan Leusink. [text/listen]
Performance of Cantata 159 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Gustav Leonhardt and Pieter Jan Leusink. [text/listen]
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed byOlivier Latry on the pedal piano. [musicMe]
Georges Rouault, Miserere Mei, etching
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions (NRSV, Psalm 51:1).
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Ash Wednesday
February 18, 2015
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During the imposition of ashes at the 7:30 pm Eucharist, the choir will sing Gregorio Allegri's much celebrated Miserere.
Gregorio Allegri
1582 - 1652
Dave Lamson of Classical Net praises the performances of theMiserere by The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars and by the Ensemble A Sei Voci with its two versions, one with baroque ornamentation and the other the traditional simple version.
Performances by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, conducting:
2007 recording, 2nd performance including additional embellishments by Deborah Roberts [BNQ; BM] (info)
Performances by the Ensemble A Sei Voci, Bernard Fabre-Garrus conducting:
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Performance, edited by Hugh Keyte, of the Taverner Consort, the Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott conducting [YouTube]
Performance by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Roy Goodman, treble, Sir David Willcocks conducting (1963) [YouTube]
Performance, edited by John Rutter, by the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Julius Foo; Peter Hicks; Thomas Mullock, treble; Leo Tomita, counter-tenor; Tristan Hambleton; Basil McDonald, bass; Andrew Nethsingha conducting [YouTube]
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A lengthy discussion of how Allegri's Miserere Mei reached the public: Allegri's Miserere: A Quest for the Holy Grail? By Ben Byram-Wigfield. (Make sure that you adjust the size of your Adobe reader to 100% for comfortable reading.)
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Franz Liszt composed a fantasy for piano on Allegri's celebrated Miserere, followed by a version of Mozart's Ave verum corpus,under the title À la Chapelle Sixtine [Searle 461 - two versions]. Versions of this fantasy for orchestra [Searle 360] and piano four-hands [Searle 363 not available for free online listening] followed closely the 2nd version for piano. There is also a version for organ [Searle 658] with the title Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine.
Two versions for piano:
Franz Liszt, À la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere d'Allegri et Ave verum Corpus de Mozart) [1st version], S461, Leslie Howard, piano [CML] (info)
Franz Liszt, À la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere d'Allegri et Ave verum Corpus de Mozart) [2nd version], S461, Leslie Howard, piano [YouTube]
Franz Liszt, À la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere d'Allegri et Ave verum Corpus de Mozart) [2nd version], S461, Valerie Tryon, piano [BNQ; BM] (info)
Version for orchestra:
Franz Liszt, À la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere d'Allegri et Ave verum corpus de Mozart), S360, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen conducting. [BNQ; BM] (info)
Version for organ:
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed byMarie-Claire Alain on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Orleans [musicMe]
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed by Olivier Vernet on the 1888/2001 Rinckenbach/Aubertin organ in the church of Saint-Thiébaut in Thann, Haut-Rhin. [YouTube]
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed byChristopher Herrick, on the 1878/2000 Lewis/Harrison organ of Ripon Cathedral [CML] (info)
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed byMartin Haselbock on the Ladegast organ of St. James Cathedralin Köthen [BNQ; BM] (info)
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed byEric Lebrun at the 1852 organ of the Protestant Church of Barr, Bas-Rhin [musicMe]
Franz Liszt, Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine, S658, performed byOlivier Latry on the pedal piano. [musicMe]