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

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

Kyrie from Chichester Mass
Richard Lloyd (1933-2021)

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of the 125th Anniversary of Dominican Academy, 2022

Dominican Academy Mass, 2022

Lloyd, Richard: Chichester Mass; Kyrie

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

Sicut cervus desiderat – Sitivit anima mea
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fonte aquarum: 
ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.  

Sitivit anima mea ad Deum vivum: 
quando veniam, et apparebo ante faciem Dei mei?  
Fuerunt mihi lacrimae meae panes die ac nocte, 
dum dicitur mihi per singulos dies: Ubi est Deus tuus?

As the hart pants after the fonts of water, 
so my soul pants after you, O God.  

My soul has thirsted for the living God: 
when shall I come and appear before the face of my God?  
My tears have been my bread day and night, 
while they say to me every day: Where is your God?
~Psalm 41 (42):2, 3, 4

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

Easter Vigil, 2019

Palestrina: Sicut cervus – Sitivit anima mea

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

Surge, propera, amica mea - Surge, amica mea
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Surge, propera, amica mea, 
columba mea, formosa mea, et veni.
Jam enim hiems transiit:
imber abiit et recessit.
Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra.  
Tempus putationis advenit:
vox turturis audita est in terra nostra.
Ficus protulit grossos suos: 
vineae florentes dederunt odorem suum.

Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea, et veni.
Columba mea, in foraminibus petrae, 
in caverna maceriae, 
ostende mihi faciem tuam, 
sonnet vox tua in auribus meis: 
vox enim tua dulcis et facies tua decora.

Arise, make haste, my love, 
my dove, my fair one, and come away.
For now the winter is past; 
the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on our land.
The time for pruning has come; 
the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its fruit; 
the blossoming vines give forth their fragrance.

Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
My dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the hollow of the cliff, 
show me your face;
let your voice sound in my ears:
for sweet is your voice, and your face is comely.
Song of Songs 2:10-14

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

Easter IV, 2018

Palestrina: Surge, propera, amica mea - Surge, amica mea

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

Annunciation Carol (Nova, nova ave fit ex Eva)
Robert W. Lehman

Annunciation Carol
Nova, nova, ave fit ex Eva.    [News, news, ‘Ave’ has been made from ‘Eve’.]
Gabriel of high degree, 
He was sent from Trinity 
To Nazareth of Galilee. 

He met a maiden in that place, 
There he knelt before her face, 
And said: Hail, Mary, full of grace. 

When the maiden heard his song 
She was filled with trouble strong, 
And feared that she had done a wrong. 

Then said the angel: Fear not thou, 
For thou shalt conceive in great virtue 
The Savior thou shalt call Jesu. 

There are yet but six months gone 
Since Elizabeth conceived John 
To be the herald of God’s Son.

Then said the maiden: 
Verily, I am thy servant right truly; 
Ecce ancilla Domini.     [Behold the handmaid of the Lord.]
~Anonymous, 15th century

Recorded live during the Service of Marian Lessons and Carols at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2018

Marian Lessons and Carols, 2018

Lehman: Annunciation Carol

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

There is no rose of such virtue
Simon Preston (b. 1938)

There is no rose of such virtue
as is the rose that bare Jesu:
Alleluia.

For in this rose contained was
heaven and earth in little space:
Res miranda.     [Wondrous thing.]

By that rose we may well see
that he is God in persons three:
Pari forma.     [Equal in form.]

The angels sungen the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis Deo:     [Glory be to God on high.]
Gaudeamus.     [Let us rejoice.]

Leave we all this worldly mirth,
and follow we this joyful birth:
Transeamus.     [Let us follow.]
~Anonymous, c. 1420

Recorded live during the Office of Readings and Solemn Mass of Christmas Eve at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2018

Christmas Eve, 2018

Preston: There is no rose of such virtue

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

Palestrina: Surge, propera, amica mea - Surge, amica mea

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