Pieter-Jansz-Pourbus, The Last Supper, private collection, c.1562
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever [NRSV, John 6:51a].
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
11th Sunday after Pentecost
Click to go immediately to:
1) The Music Programme Homepage
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Celebrate the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Patrick Wedd at the 1980 Wilhelm organ of Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday, August 15, at 4:30 pm: Music for Mary. Admission Free / Donations accepted.
Programme:
Ave Maris Stella (Plein jeu, Fugue à 4, Duo, Dialogue sur les grands jeux), Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)
Mariales (Incantation [Mater admirabilis], Pastorale [Regina caeli], Antienne [Salve Regina], Hymne [Virgo Dei Genetrix], Dance [Ave maris stella], Naji Hakim (b. 1955)
By way of preparation, listen free online:
Nicolas de Grigny, Ave Maris Stella, performed by PierreBardon at the 1772 Isnard organ of Saint Maximin en Provence [musicMe]
De Grigny composed Ave Maris Stella with the organ alternating verses with a choir: Performance by Jean-Pierre Lecaudey at the 1699 Julien Tribuot organ of Saint-Martin de Suerre and Les Chantres du Roy. For the text, right-click here, then click on "Open in New Window." For the music, right-click here, then click on "Open in New Window." Arrange windows.
Flor Peeters, Toccata, Fugue et Hymne sur “Ave Maris Stella,” performed by Julian Bewig at the 1989 Schuke organ of St. Lamberti, Münster [YouTube]
Naji Hakim, Mariales (Incantation [Mater admirabilis], Pastorale [Regina caeli], Antienne [Salve Regina], Hymne [Virgo Dei Genetrix], Dance [Ave maris stella]), performed by Heather Hernandez at the 2001 Casavant organ of the American Lutheran Church of Sun City, Arizona [YouTube].
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The music of Orlande de Lassus is featured at the Choral Eucharists this coming Sunday.
Orlande de Lassus
(1532 - 1594)
Complete discs of de Lassus music for free online listening are available from musicMe. Click on the appropriate title.
Lassus: Magnum opus musicum by the Choeur de chambre de Namur and La Fenice, Jean Tubery conducting.
Lassus: Missa ad imitationem moduli vinum bonum & magnificat super aurora lucis rutilat by the Choeur de chambre de Namur, the Ricercar Consort, La Fenice; Peter Phillips conducting.
Lassus: Chansons by Delphine Collot and the Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot conducting.
Bonjour mon coeur by the Capilla flamenca
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Rogier van der Weyden, Christ on the Cross with Mary and John, Monasterio de San Lorenzo, El Escorial, c.1460
Click to go to Orlande de Lassus, Stabat Mater, performed by The Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hilliard conducting. Recorded at the Priority Church of St Mary & St Blaise, Boxgrove, West-Sussex, in September 1983.
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Sir Anthony van Dyke, Penitent Apostle Peter, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1617-18
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The Biblothèque nationale du Québec [Montréal] has an excellent recording of the Missa Bell’Amfitrit’Altera that may be borrowed.
Orlande de Lassus' Missa Bell'Amfitrit'Altera is a Parody Mass based on a lost madrigal about "another beautiful Amphitrite," a sea-nymph.
Lassus spent most of his adult life in Munich as maestro di cappella at the court of the dukes of Bavaria. James O'Donnell, erstwhile director of the Westminster Cathedral Choir, with the assistance of Jeremy West's, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, in the recording of Festal Sacred Music of Bavaria has recreated a Mass for a martyr-bishop as it might have been performed in Augsburg cathedral around the year 1600. The readings and prayers are omitted but the music is there with Lassus' Mass setting, the Missa Bell'Amfitrit'Altera filled out with prelude, postlude, propers and instrumental canzoni by Hans Leo Hassler and Christian Erbach.
Lassus' Mass, usually sung today a cappella, is here embellished with instruments, the "sagbutts & cornetts"which act as a second choir. The organ music is provided by Timothy Roberts, Iain Simcock, and Iris Schollhorn.
Click here to check whether the recording is currently on the shelf at the Bibliothèque nationale to be borrowed.
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Click to go to the Free Organ Recitals at St. James United Church, Montreal, for the Summer 2015 (Tuesdays at 12:30 pm) and the Church of Saint Andrew and Saint Paul (Thursday at 12:15 pm).
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Mass of the 11th Sunday after Pentecost
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Giotto di Bondone, Jesus in the Temple, Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua, 1304-06
Bach Cantatas for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity:
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Schauet doch und sehet / Behold and see, Cantata 46, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, Leonhardt, Leusink and Sternberg.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott / Take from us, you faithful God, Cantata 101, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink and Rilling.
Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben! / Lord, your eyes look for faith!, Cantata 102, with performances by Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Leusink, Richter and Rilling.