February 16, 2014

Luca Signorelli, Moses Speaking to Israel (detail), Cappella Sistina, Vatican, 1481-82

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live [NRSV, Deuteronomy 30:19].

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
 

Prelude: Tiento de 6° Tom [Lernia: NML; BM] (info) Lucas Puxol (17th cent.)
 
Setting: Messa a quattro voci, Giovanni Antonio Grossi
(1615-84)

Introit: Pater noster, Giovanni Antonio Grossi
 
Motet: Caro mea [text], Francisco Guerrero (1528-99)

 
Postlude: Sonata de primer tono [Oelkers: YouTube], José Lidon (1752-1827)


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale



Prélude : Tiento de 6° Tom [Lernia : NML ; BM] (info) Lucas Puxol (XVIIe s.)

Ordinaire : Messa a quattro voci, Giovanni Antonio Grossi (1615-84) 

Introït : Pater noster, Giovanni Antonio Grossi

Motet : Caro mea [texte], Francisco Guerrero (1528-99)

Postlude : Sonata de primer tono [Oelkers : YouTube], José Lidon (1752-1827)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)



Prelude: Reprises par interversion (Livre d’Orgue) [Composer himself: musicMe], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) 
 
Introit:
A New Commandment [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Preces and Responses: Plainsong


Psalm: 19, Tone 3.4
 
Magnificat: Tone 2.1, fauxbourdons, Carolus Andreas (16th cent.)

 Nunc dimittis: Tone 8.1, fauxbourdons, Carolus Andreas

Anthem: The Birds [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)

Postlude: Chants d’oiseaux (Livre d’Orgue), [musicMe], Olivier Messiaen