July 17, 2011


Domenico Feti, Satan sowing Darnel, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1800-25

The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil [NRSV, Matthew: 13:38b-39a].


Fifth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments] 

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Lo, God is here (Vater unser im himmelreich I and II) [listen], Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) 

Mass Setting: Missa Tertia [St. Clement's: listen], Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)

Introit: Almighty and everlasting God [St. John's: text/YouTube], Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Motet: Sacerdotes Domini [text] [Christ Church Oxford: CML] (info), William Byrd (1543-1623)

Postlude: Toccata quinta [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat (1645-1704)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Toccata sexta [Ullmann: YouTube],  Georg Muffat (1645-1704)

Introit:
O gladsome light, [text] [Rutter: NML], (info), Louis Bourgeois (1510-61) 

Preces and Responses: Plainsong

Psalm: 103 (tone 8.2)

Magnificat: 
Octavi Toni [text/listen]Luca Marenzio (c.1553-99)

Nunc dimittis: Tone 3.5 

Anthem: Round me falls the night [text], Adam Drese (1620-1701) 

Postlude: Toccata septima [Ullmann: YouTube], Georg Muffat