
Above photo credit: David Higgs©2023
Sunday Night Compline with the Schola Cantorum
New Schola video recordings will be released and uploaded to YouTube beginning next week from recording sessions in 2023 & 2024. Motets by Palestrina (1525-1594), William Byrd (1540-1623), Rudolph di Lasso (c. 1563-1626), Ignazio Donati (c. 1570-1638), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864-1956), Stephen Kennedy (b. 1962), & Jon Madden (b.1998). Michael Sherman productions. Premieres Apr 2, 2025 and continues weekly - the photos below are your links
Premiered Apr 2, 2025
This setting of the Te Lucis ante terminum (Mode VIII) was composed by Stephen Kennedy in 2021 and was dedicated to James Weaver. Verse one and three bookend the 8-part polyphony of verse 2 which incorporates only the plainsong tone as composition material. This performance employs historic Colla parte practice with pipe organ, 5 sackbuts (Bass, Tenor & Alto), and 2 cornetti. Recorded in April of 2025 at Christ Church, Rochester, NY.
Premiered Apr 9, 2025
This motet of 8 voices is performed here by the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, Rochester NY. Stephen Kennedy director. Colla parte instruments include 5 sackbuts, 2 cornetti, 2 theorbo, and organ at A=465 Quarter-comma meantone. Recorded at Christ Church, Rochester NY May 2023. @techformusicians
Premiered Apr 16, 2025
This recording of Lotti's Crucifixus (from the Credo in F) was recorded in May of 2023 by the Christ Church Schola Cantorum. Instruments include 5 sackbuts, 2 cornetts, 2 theorbo, & organ in quarter-comma meantone (A=465). @techformusicians
Premiered Apr 23, 2025
Domine, ad adjuvandum by Ignazio Donatti (ca. 1575-1638) -premiered April 23, 2025
This 12-part motet with Basso continuo was first published in 1623 in Salmi boscarecci, Op. 9, no. 1. It is performed here with colla parte instruments: 5 sackbuts, 2 cornetti, and organ in quarter-comma meantone at A=465 by the Schola Cantorum, Stephen Kennedy director. Recorded in May of 2024. @techformusicians Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Alleluia. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
World without end, Amen. Alleluia.
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Sunday night Compline can be experienced every Sunday from October 6, 2024-April 27, 2025