March 1, 2015





James Tissot, Get out of my sight, Satan, Brooklyn Museum, 1886-96

But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things [Mark 8:33]." 

Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  
The Second Sunday of Lent

Click to go immediately to:

1) The Music Programme Homepage

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

3) L'Oasis Musicale

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This year La Nuit blanche at Montreal is on Saturday, February 28. Click to go to the musical activities at Christ Church Cathedral.


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The music of Orlande de Lassus is featured at the Choral Eucharists this coming Sunday.




Orlande de Lassus
(1532 - 1594)
                                                                 

Click to read about de Lassus at length in Wikipedia.


Four complete discs of de Lassus music for free online listening are available from musicMe.  Click on the appropriate title.




Lassus - Lamentationes Jeremiæ Prophetæ by Collegium Regale, Stephen Cleobury conducting.


Lassus: Magnum opus musicum by the Choeur de chambre de Namur and La Fenice, Jean Tuberyconducting.


Lassus : Biographie musicale, vol. 1. Années de jeunesseby Ludus Modalis, Bruno Boterf conducting.


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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
Performance with text by the Ensemble Vocal  Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe  conducting. [YouTube]


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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 andChristian 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 for the Hyperion Records website (scroll down for notes).


Click here for the complete, detailed liner notes.


Click here to check whether the recording is currently on the shelf  at the Bibliothèque nationale to be borrowed.
 
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McGill University Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series
Fridays to February 28 at 12:30 pm

February 22, 2015



William Blake, The Baptism of Jesus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1816-20


In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan [NRSV, Mark 1:9].


Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes  
The First Sunday of Lent

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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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

The Mass setting for the 12h45 Eucharistie chantée this coming Sunday is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa aeterna Christi munera. Listen to a performance by the Pro Cantione Antiqua of London, Bruno Turner conducting. [musicMe]

Other Palestrina Masses:

Missa Assumpta est Maria:

Performance of La Chapelle Royale, Phillip Herreweghe conducting. [musicMe]

Missa Dum Complerentur:

Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]

Motet [text] - Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]

Missa Papae Marcelli:

Click to read about the Missa Papae Marcelli.

Performance of the Westminster Abbey Choir directed bySimon Preston  [musicMe]

Performance of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks [musicMe]

Click to watch and listen to Pope John XXIII intone theGloria which the Cappella Sistina sings from Palestrina'sMissa Papae Marcelli followed by Pope John singing thecollect (much ambient noise).

Missa pro defunctis:

Performance of Chanticleer [musicMe]

Missa Sine Nomine:

Performance of the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis conducting [musicMe]

Performance of the London Choir of the Carmelite Priory, John McCarthy conducting [musicMe]

Missa Tu es Petrus:

Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]

Motet [text] - Performance of Regensburger Domchor, Hans Schrems conducting. [musicMe]

Missa Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la [Hexacord Mass]:

Performance of the Choeur du Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson conducting. [musicMe]

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Much of the music this coming Sunday is the work of Thomas Tallis.


The complete works of Thomas Tallis by La Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon conducting, are available for free online listening provided by the Naxos Music Library.  Check with you librarian.  .


Cardholders of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, ready to open their account online when prompted, click here: [BNQ].  They will be taken to the complete works of Thomas Tallis.


Cardholders of the Bibliothèques de Montréal,  ready to open their account online when prompted, click here: [BM].  They will be taken to the complete works of Thomas Tallis.


"Beethoven on Demand" is a programme of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.  Persons agreeing to accept e-mail notification of the Symphony's activities may join "Beethoven on Demand," a free programme that gives access to the entire catalogue of the Naxos Music Library.  Click here for more information and the opportunity to join.


Subscribers to the hard-copy version of La Scena Musicale, receive free access to the Naxos Music Library.  Click here for information.


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McGill University Noon-Hour Organ Recital Series
Fridays to February 28 at 12:30 pm