A review of music written using Latin texts in service of the liturgy of the Catholic Church encompassing music written in all periods with a concentration on contemporary composers.


Saturday, January 28, 2012

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 29th of January, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Jean Langlais' Messe Solennelle and Maurice Durufle's Ubi Caritas. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Francis Poulenc's Salve Regina. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) John Duggan's (b. 1963) motet Ave verum corpus. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Kodaly's Missa Brevis.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 22nd January, 2012.

At the Birmingham Oratory (OF 1030) William Sewell's Mass of St Philip. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Filke's Missa in honorem S. Caroli Borromaei. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Durufle's Ubi caritas, Tantum ergo and Tota pulchra. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Lennox Berkeley's Missa Brevis and Cousins' Dextera Domini. At S. Etheldreda's, Ely Place, (OF 1100) Flor Peeter's Mass in Honour of S. Joseph and Ave verum.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Messe Breve en Ut Georges Berruyer (1887-1966)
Cantate Domino Albert Alain (1880-1971) At St Etheldreda's, Ely Place (OF 1100) Veritas mea – Malcolm. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Jonathan Dove's Missa Brevis, Messiaen's O Sacrum Convivium and Ronald Corp's Laudate Dominum. At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) W.S. Lloyd Webber's Missa Princeps pacis and Barber's Agnus Dei.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Weekend Roundup

At Farm Street (OF 1100) and at the London Oratory (OF 1100) Poulenc's Videntes stella.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Weekend Roundup

'Midnight' Mass
At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 2200) George Malcolm's Missa ad Praesepe and Francis Poulenc's O Magnum Mysterium. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 0000) Whitacre's Lux aurumque. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 2315) Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium. At St George's Cathedral Southwark (OF broadcast commences 2345) Nicholas O'Neill's Missa Sancti Nicolai and James MacMillan's In Splendoribus.

'Day' Mass

At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) George Malcolm's Missa ad Praesepe and Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium. At Westminster Cathedral Vespers (1530) Whitacre's Lux aurumque.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Christmas at Southwark

Nick Gale has posted details of the BBC broadcast of Midnight Mass from St George's Cathdral, Southwark on The Chant Cafe.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Weekend Roundup

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) the Agnus Dei from Perosi's Missa Benedicamus Domino.
At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Messe en l’honneur l’Emmanuel by Abbe Georges Crettol (1893-1991). At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) Flor Peeters Missa in honorem Sancti Iosephi.
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