July 25, 2010

Marriage of Hosea and the Prostitute, Bible of Saint André au Bois, Bibliothèque municipale de Boulogne sur Mer, 12th cent.

So Hosea went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. [NRSV, Hosea 1:3].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

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The music for evensong this Sunday (the Ninth after Pentecost), organ voluntaries, preces, psalms, canticles and anthems, everything centers on Thomas Tallis. For those with online access to Naxos Music Library (info), all of Tallis’ music is covered there by two sets of discs: one, the keyboard music by Montrealer Rachelle Taylor [NML], and two, the choral music (on 6 discs) by La Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon conducting. [NML]. Check with your librarian.

Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

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Click to go to Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 136, Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz / Search me, God, and know my heart. Performances by John Eliot Gardiner and Pieter Jan Leusink.

Unknown author from Jerome Nadal, Evangelicae Historiae Imagines, Warning of false prophets, 1593

July 18, 2010

Prophet Amos, Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Russia, 18th cent.

The LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel [NRSV, Amos 7:15].'

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

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All four organ voluntaries this coming Sunday, the 8th after Pentecost, are by Dieterich Buxtehude. Click to go to two full programmes of his music on Pipedreams: The Road to Buxtehude and Discovering Dieterich Buxtehude.

Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

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Click to go to performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 186, by John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Pieter Jan Leusink.

July 11, 2010

Juan de Borgona, The Prophet Amos, Museo Catedralico, Cuenca, 1535

Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees [NRSV, Amos 7:14].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Myron Roberts, Homage to Perotin, is the postlude for Choral Eucharist this coming Sunday, the 7th after Pentecost. Click to listen to it performed by Frederick Swann on the 1964 Möller organ of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC.

Click to read about Perotin and organum.

Perotin and the Ars Antiqua [Liner notes for the CD Hilliard Live 1] [NML] (info)

Perotin, Viderunt omnes [text/listen]

Perotin, Sederunt principes [lyrics: Phillip the Chancellor] [text/listen]

Anonymous/Perotin, Beata viscera [text/listen]

Perotin, Alleluia. Nativitas [lyrics: Phillip the Chancellor] [text/listen]

Perotin, Alleluia. Posui auditorium [text/NML] (info)

Perotin, Presul nostri temporis [text/listen]

Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

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Click to go to a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 170, Performance by Counter-tenor: Michael Chance; Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner conducting.

And a performance by Alto: Sytse Buwalda; Netherlands Bach Collegium; Pieter Jan Leusink conducting.

July 4, 2010

William Blake, The Fall of Satan, Morgan Library, New York, 1805-06

Jesus said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.. [NRSV, Luke 10:18].

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

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July 1st is Canada Day. All of the music for this coming Sunday will be works by Canadian composers. Click to go to a Pipedreams programme honoring Canadian composers, performers and instruments (including a couple of pieces performed by Patrick Wedd).



Healey Willan is the dean of Canadian composers. Click to go to a Pipedreams programme honouring his work, performed by John Tuttle on the 1928 Welte-1964 Möller-1983 Gould & Schultz organ of the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Mark, Minneapolis, MN, and the Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler conducting.

Summer in Montreal is an Organ Festival

Click for free organ recitals in Montreal during the summer months.

Click to go to a performance of Bach Cantata 93 by Soprano:Joanne Lunn; Counter-tenor: WilliamTowers; Tenor: Kobievan Rensburg; Bass:Peter Harvey;Monteverdi Choir /English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardinerconducting. Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, at Blasiuskirche, Mühlhausen, Germany.

Performance of Soprano: Agnès Mellon; Alto: Charles Brett; Tenor: Howard Crook; Bass: Peter Kooy; Chorus & Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent; Philippe Herreweghe conducting. Recorded at Minderbroederskerk, Ghent, Belgium.

Performance of Soprano: Hana Blažíková; Counter-tenor: Damien Guillon; Tenor: Hans Jörg Mammel; Bass: Peter Kooy; Collegium Vocale Gent; Philippe Herreweghe conducting. Second half of a concert recorded at l'Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes, France.

Performance by

Soprano: Marjon Strijk; Alto: Sytse Buwalda; Tenor: Knut Schoch; Bass: Bas Ramselaar;

Holland Boys Choir /Netherlands Bach Collegium;

Pieter Jan Leusink conducting. Recorded at St. Nicolaschurch, Elburg, Holland.