June 18, 2017

L'Oasis Musicale: Concerts at the Cathedral and at St George's



Dieric Bouts le Vieux, La dernière cène (détail), Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven, 1664-67

‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’  [John 6:51].


Corpus et Sanguis Christi / La Fête-Dieu [Choir Notes]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Deck yourself, my soul), BWV 654, [YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)  
Mass Setting: Missa Vinum Bonum [BNQ; BM] (info), Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)  

Introit: Ego sum panis vivus [text][YouTube], Juan de Esquivel (1560-1625)   
Motet: Ave verum corpus [text] [YouTube], Orlande de Lassus

Benediction: Tantum ergo [text/listen], Maurice Duruflé(1902-86)
Postlude: Adoro Te (Livre du Saint Sacrement) [YouTube], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)   

12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prélude :  Ton Roi t’invite à la fête (Choralvorspiele “Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele" Op. 122 N. 5) [YouTube], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
Ordinaire :  Missa L’Hora Passa [YouTube], Lodovico da Viadana (1560-1627)

Introït :  Ego sum panis vivus [texte][YouTube], Juan de Esquivel (1560-1625)

Motet :  O Sacrum convivium [texte/YouTube], Giovanni Croce (1557-1607)

Postlude :  Vater unser im Himmelreich / Our Father in heaven, BWV 683 [listen] [Clavier-Übung III], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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

Prelude: Chorale in b [BNQ; BM] (info), Francis Jackson (b. 1917)

Introit: Ave verum corpus [text] [listen],Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Preces: Francis Jackson

Psalm: 34, vv1-10, Walter Parratt

Canticles: Service in G [YouTube], Francis Jackson

Anthem: Evening Hymn [text] [YouTube], H. Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)

Postlude:  Toccata in b [BNQ; BM] (info), Francis Jackson