October 4, 2009

Jan Lievens, Job on the Dungheap, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1631

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. (NRSV, Job 2:7).


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Tierce en taille from 4ième Livre d'orgue, Louis Marchand (1669-1732)

Introit: Jubilate Deo [text] [Corale Polifonica Psalterium: download; Exultate Deo: YouTube], Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)

Mass Setting: Missa Simile est regnum caelorum [Christ Church Oxford: NML; CML] (info), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611)

Motet: Gustate et videte [text], Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517)

Postlude: Grand Dialogue in C from 3ième Livre d'orgue [Raver: listen], Louis Marchand

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Préambule from Sketches for Organ on Verses from the Psalms [Bate: listen], Percy Whitlock (1903-46)

Introit: Prevent us, O Lord [text], Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)

Preces and Responses: Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Psalm: 145 (Cooper, Corfe)

Canticles: Collegium Regale, Charles Wood (1866-1926)

Anthem: For I went with the multitude [text], Peter Aston (b. 1938)

Postlude: Sortie from Sketches for Organ on Verses from the Psalms [Bate: listen], Percy Whitlock