Vierne - 3rd Symphonie; Intermezzo

Scott Montgomery playing live in concert at Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 9, 2014

Charles Ives- Variations of America

recorded for the Austrian Music Society in Vienna, June 19, 1982.

Jean Langlais Recalls Louis Vierne and  Marcel Dupré

Pax Christi Chamber Choir of Toronto, conducted by Stephanie Martin, composer of this motet for SATB choir. Published by Cypress https://soundcloud.com/cypress-choral-music/rise-up-my-love

Words from the Song of Solomon.
Text: Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth and the time of the singing of birds is come, the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender fruit. My beloved is mine and I am his. He feedeth upon the lilies until the day break, and the shadows flee. Turn my beloved, and when the shadows flee, be thou like a deer upon the mountains.

Rise Up My Love - Martin

OComeAllYeFaithful

Mary Ellen Gustafson, Soprano, Ladies Handbell Choir, Barbara Plante, Director, arranged by Barrie Cabena.  Recorded in 1982
First St. Andrew's United Church
London, ON
Alan Barthel, Director of Music

The Singer and the Song

I Wonder As I Wander

Peter Davison, Rector of Bishop Cronyn Memorial Anglican Church, London, ON,  wrote this text for the opening liturgy at the 1981 National Convention of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.  Dr George Black, Professor of French at Huron College, provided the harmonization which the choir realizes here.  The hymn now appears in a number of major hymnals including "Common, Praise", "Evangelical Lutheran Worship", "Hymns of Truth and Light", "Moravian Book of Worship", "Voices United", and "With One Voice".   The   The Choir of First St. Andrew's United Church, Victoria Meredith, Contralto, Mary Ellen Gustafson, Soprano, Alan Barthel, Director of Music.  Recorded by Marcus Reinkeluers in 1982 for the album, "The Singer and The Song".  on which much of the music was commissioned by the Choir of First-St. Andrew's.

The Singer And The Song

Commissioned by Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, this piece was premiered in a celebration to dedicate the church's beautiful new community space made possible by the inspiring "Open Doors, Open Futures" project.  The church's chancel choir sang the premiere, under the direction of Tesfa Wondemagegnehu.  In this recording, the composer conducts sounding light with Anne Wilson at the piano.

I Will Make a Way!

The text describes the descent of the Holy Spirit in sound, wind and flames at Pentecost.
Complete text and translation can be found on the publisher's website
https://www.birettabooks.com/stephanie-martin/dum-compleretur-stephanie-martin/

Sung here by Montreal's Voces Boreales (via Montreal Choral Institute) conducted by Andrew Gray. 
http://www.vocesboreales.org

Stephanie Martin - Dum Complerentur

Mary Ellen Gustafson, Soprano, The Choir and Orchestra of First-St. Andrew's United Church, London, ON  

Recorded live in Concert, December, 1980 

Alan Barthel, Director of Music and Conductor

2. Die Hirten (Pastorale) - Der Stern von Bethlehem - Josef Rheinberger

32'Bombarde

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