Choral music for Passiontide, Holy Week, and Eastertide as sung by the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer - New York City, James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Lent and Easter Choral Music

Choral music of the Franco-Flemish Renaissance School, as exemplified by Orlando di Lasso, as sung by the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer - New York City, James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Lasso and the Franco-Flemish School

The Schola Cantorum of Vincent Ferrer - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Jesu dulcis memoria, Op. 78, No. 2
Pierre Villette (1926-1998)

Jesu dulcis memoria
dans vera cordis gaudia:
sed super mel et omnia
ejus dulcis praesentia.

Nil canitur suavius,
nil auditur jucundius,
nil cogitatur dulcius,
quam Jesus Dei Filius.

Sis, Jesu, nostrum gaudium,
qui es futurus praemium:
sit nostra in te gloria,
per cuncta semper saecula.  
Amen.
Jesus, sweet remembrance,
giving true joy to the heart;
but more than honey and all things
is his sweet presence.

Nothing more delightful is sung,
nothing more pleasing heard,
nothing sweeter thought,
than Jesus, the Son of God.

May, O Jesus, you be our joy,
who is our future reward;
may our glory be in you
throughout all eternity.
Amen.
~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper of Maundy Thursday at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2019

Maundy Thursday, 2018

Villette: Jesu dulcis memoria, Op. 78, No. 2

The Schola Cantorum of Vincent Ferrer - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Ubi caritas
Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.  
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exsultemus et in ipso jucundemur.
Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.

Where charity and love are, God is there.  
The love of Christ has gathered us into one.  
Let us rejoice and be glad in him.  
Let us fear and love the living God.  
And let us love one another with a sincere heart. 
~I John 2-4 

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper of Maundy Thursday at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2019

Maundy Thursday, 2019

Gjeilo: Ubi caritas

The Schola Cantorum of Vincent Ferrer - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Sir Edward C. Bairstow (1874-1946)

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and stand with fear and trembling,
and lift itself above all earthly thought.
For the King of kings and Lord of lords,
Christ our God, cometh forth to be our oblation,
and to be given for food to the faithful.
Before him come the choirs of angels,
with every principality and power;
the Cherubim with many eyes, and winged Seraphim,
who veil their faces as they shout exultingly the hymn: Alleluia.
~Cherubic hymn, Divine Liturgy of Saint James, 4th century
trans. Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885)

Recorded live during the annual Solemn Mass of the Stillman Foundation at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2016

Stillman Mass, 2016

Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence

The Schola Cantorum of Vincent Ferrer - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

God so loved the world (from 'The Crucifixion')
Sir John Stainer (1840-1901)

God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son, 
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, 
but that the world through him might be saved.
~John 3:16-17

Recorded live during the Service of Seven Last Words on Good Friday at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2018

Good Friday (Three Hours), 2018

Stainer: God so loved the world

The Schola Cantorum of Vincent Ferrer - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

In monte Oliveti
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

In monte Oliveti 
oravit ad Patrem: 
Pater, si fieri potest, 
transeat a me calix iste:  
spiritus quidem promptus est, 
caro autem infirma: 
fiat voluntas tua.  
 
On the Mount of Olives 
he prayed to his Father: 
Father, if it be possible, 
let this cup pass from me;
the spirit indeed is willing, 
but the flesh is weak; 
your will be done.  
~Matthew 26:39, 41

Recorded live during the Solemn Liturgy of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2019

Good Friday (Passion), 2019

Lasso: In monte Oliveti

Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer – New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Congratulamini mihi – Tulerunt Dominum meum
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Congratulamini mihi 
omnes qui diligitis Dominum,
quia quem quaerebam apparuit mihi:
et dum flerem ad monumentum,
vidi Dominum meum, alleluia.

Tulerunt Dominum meum,
et nescio ubi posuerunt eum.
Dicunt ei angeli: 
Mulier, quid ploras?
Surrexit sicut dixit.
Praecedet vos in Galileam, alleluia.

Rejoice with me, 
all you who love the Lord,
for he whom I sought has appeared to me;
and while I was weeping at the tomb,
I saw my Lord, alleluia.

They have taken away my Lord,
and I know not where they have put him.
The angels say unto her: 
Woman, why do you weap?
He has risen, as he said.
He goes before you into Galilee, alleluia.
~John 20:13, 15, 18

Recorded live during the Easter Vigil at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2019

Easter Vigil, 2019

Lasso: Congratulatmini mihi - Tulerunt Dominum

The Schola Cantorum of Saint Agnes - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Organist and Choirmaster

Ave verum corpus
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Ave verum corpus 
natum de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum 
in cruce pro homine, 
cujus latus perforatum 
unda fluxit et sanguine: 
esto nobis praegustatum, 
in mortis examine.  
O dulcis, O pie, O Jesu, fili Mariae,
miserere mei.  Amen.

Hail, true body, 
born of the Virgin Mary,  
who truly suffered, sacrificed 
on the cross for mankind, 
from whose pierced side 
flowed water and blood: 
may it be for us a foretaste 
in the trial of death.  
O sweet, O gentle, O Jesus, Son of Mary,
have mercy on me.  Amen.

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of Corpus Christi at the Church of Saint Agnes, 2014

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Corpus Christi, 2014

Lasso: Ave verum corpus

Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer – New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Benedictus es, Domine
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Benedictus es, Domine, 
doce me justificationes tuas:
in labiis meis pronuntiavi 
omnia judicia oris tui.

Blessed are you, O Lord;
teach me your justifications.
With my lips I have pronounced 
all the judgments of your mouth.
Psalm 118 (119):12, 13

Recorded live during a the Solemn Mass of Sunday VI at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2020

Sunday 6, 2020

Lasso: Benedictus es, Domine

The Schola Cantorum of Vincent Ferrer - New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of Easter Sunday at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2018

Lasso: In monte Oliveti

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