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 from the Anglican and English Catholic traditions as sung by the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer - New York City, James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

English Choral Music

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

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

Beati quorum via (No. 2 from 'Three Latin Motets, Op. 38')
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Beati quorum via integra est:
qui ambulant in lege Domini.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, 
who walk in the law of the Lord.
~Psalm 118 (119):1

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of the Solemnity of Title at the Church of Saint Agnes, 2012

Saint Agnes (Installation Mass), 2012

Stanford: Beati quorum via, Op. 38, No. 2

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

Vox dicentis: Clama
Edward W. Naylor (1867-1934)

Vox dicentis: Clama.  
Et dixi: Quid clamabo?  
Omnis caro foenum, 
et omnis gloria ejus quasi flos agri.

Vere foenum est populus: 
exsiccatum est foenum, et cecidit flos: 
verbum autem Domini nostri manet in aeternum.

Super montem excelsum ascende, 
tu qui evangelizas Sion:
exalta in fortitudine vocem tuam, 
qui evangelizas Jerusalem.

Exalta, noli timere.
Dic civitatibus Juda:
Ecce Deus vester.

Ecce Dominus Deus 
in fortitudine veniet,
et brachium ejus dominabitur: 
ecce merces ejus cum eo, 
et opus illius coram illo.

Sicut pastor gregem suum pascet:
in brachio suo congregabit agnos, 
et in sinu suo levabit:
foetas ipse portabit.

The voice said: Cry out.  
And I said: What shall I cry?  
All flesh is grass, 
and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

Surely the people is grass; 
the grass withers, and the flower fades,
but the word of our Lord endures for ever.

Get up into the high mountain
you who bring good tidings, O Zion;
lift up your voice with strength
that brings good tidings, O Jerusalem. 

Lift it up, be not afraid.
Say unto the cities of Judah:
Behold your God.

Behold, the Lord God 
will come in strength, 
and his arm shall rule;  
behold, his reward is with him, 
and his work before him. 

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; 
in his arm he shall gather the lambs  
and shall take them up in his bosom, 
and shall carry the young.
~Isaiah 40:6-11

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of the Solemnity of Title at the Church of Saint Agnes, 2012

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Naylor: Vox dicentis: clama

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

Make ye joy to God
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

Make ye joy to God all the earth. 
Serve ye our Lord in gladness.
Enter ye in before his sight in jollity;
know ye, that our Lord he is God;
he made us, and not we our selves.
Psalm 99 (100):1-3

Recorded live during a service at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2019

Sunday 5, 2020

Byrd: Make ye joy to God

Evening Hymn: Te lucis ante terminus
Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)

The Choir of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
Bruce Neswick, Director of Music
James D. Wetzel, Organist

Te lucis ante terminum, 
rerum Creator, poscimus,
ut solita clementia,
sis praesul ad custodiam.

Procul recedant somnia,
et noctium phantasmata:
hostemque nostrum comprime, 
ne polluantur corpora.

Praesta, Pater piissime, 
Patrique compar unice, 
cum Spiritu Paraclito, 
regnans per omne saeculum.

To thee before the close of day, 
Creator, we pray that, 
with thy constant clemency, 
thou wouldst be our guard and keeper now.

From all evil dreams protect us,
and from terrors of the night;
withhold from us our foe,
that we may know no corruption.

Hear us, most merciful Father,
who with the Son art one,
with the Holy Paraclete,
doth reign for all ages.
Amen.
~Saint Ambrose (c. 340-397)

Recorded live during Evensong at the Cathedral in 2010

St. John the Divine

Gardiner: Evening Hymn

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

Gloria from Mass in F
Charles Wood (1866-1926)

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of Candlemas at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2020

Easter Sunday, 2019

Wood: Mass in F; Gloria

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

Scapulis suis
George Malcolm (1917-1997)

Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi Dominus
et sub pennis ejus sperabis:
scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus.

The Lord will overshadow you with his shoulders, 
and under his wings shall you trust;
his truth shall compass you with a shield.
Psalm 90 (91):4, 5

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of Lent I at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2019

Malcolm: Scapulis suis

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