featuring Timothy Harrell, organ
Schütz – Musicalische Exequien
Britten – Jubilate Deo
Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
BCCS' season opening concert spans the centuries and covers the
European continent, featuring one of the early Baroque period's great
works - Heinrich Schütz'
Musicalishe Exequien for chamber choir,
vocal soloists, and organ. This fascinating early composition is
complimented by two 20th century favorites from English composer
Benjamin Britten -
Jubilate Deo and
Rejoice in the Lamb, based on the
uniquely spiritual writings of Christopher Smart.
program notes
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Advanced pricing: Adults - $15 Seniors - $13 Students - $5
At-the-door pricing: Adults - $18 Seniors - $16 Students - $5
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Organ prelude at 3:30 PM
Pre-concert talk at 3:00 PM
Commissioning your own Requiem in 1635, Dr. Thomas Lloyd
Trinity Lutheran Church, 1000 W. Main Street, Lansdale, PA
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Program Listing
Organ Prelude
Magnificat on the Second Tone -- Matthias Weckmann (1621-1674)
Primus Versus à 5
Secundus Versus à 4 Auff 2 Clavir
Tertius Versus à 5
Quartus Versus à 6
Fantasia super: Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La -- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1526-1621)
Passacaglia in C Minor -- BWV 582 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Program
Musikalische Exequien (Funeral Music) SWV 279-281 -- Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
I. Konzert in Form einer teutschen Begräbniss-Missa
(Concerto in the form of a German Funeral-Mass)
II. Motet: Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe (for double choir)
(Lord, if I can only have Thee)
III. Nunc Dimitis: Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener /
Selig sind die Toten
(Lord, now lettest Thy servant/Blessed are the dead)
With Organ Interludes:
Ricercare cromatico post il Credo -- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Pange lingua, Récit du Chant de L’Hymne precedent -- Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)
~Intermission~
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 65, No. 6 on the chorale “Vater unser in Himmelreich” -- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Jubilate Deo -- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Rejoice in the Lamb -- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
