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Van september t/m juni zingt de Schola
Cantorum Amsterdam en SCA Choeur de Femmes (afwisselend) elke zondag om
17.00 uur een gregoriaanse vesperdienst
in de Amsterdamse St. Nicolaaskerk, tegenover het Centraal Station.
Op belangrijke kerkelijke feestdagen worden ook de metten (nachtgebed) gezongen.
De toegang is gratis, maar uw vrijwillige bijdrage is welkom.
Een volledig overzicht van de zangactiviteiten van de schola vindt u in dit Word-document
English language program: See word document above.
CD van SCA - De Metten van Pasen
Jubileum CD van SCA! Een volledige dienst op CD - de Metten van het
Hoogfeest van
Pasen! Een schitterende uitgave van SCA. Te bestellen door overmaken
van €10,00 (dat is incl. verzendkosten) op ING Bank nr. 5612823
tnv SDA Paul, ovv CD. Zorg dat uw adres ook gecommuniceerd is. Of stuur
een email naar chantmen@gmail.com met adres gegevens. Ook beschikbaar in de Nicolaaskerk voor €10 na vesper dienst van SCA mannen.
A Unique Recording: Paschal Matins - the Matins of Easter
The
SCA is proud to announce the release of unique
recording - the complete Matins for Easter sung by the SCA, a
world premiere recording of the night office for the Christian
Church's most important feast day. For information on the CD and
how you can order
this recording outside the Netherlands please send an email to: chantmen@gmail.com . For orders
within the Netherlands transfer €10.00 (this includes delivery
costs) to SDA Paul, ING Bank Account Nr. 5612823 and include your
delivery address in the transfer information. Alternatively, send
delivery address info to: chantmen@gmail.com .
Fanfare (one of the largest, oldest and most respected classical music
magazines) reviewed this CD in August 2010. Here's what they
said:
Wim van Gerven (1929–2008) was the co-founder and conductor of
the student choir at the University
of Amsterdam from 1959 to
1993. The choir’s role began when the promotion of Gregorian chant in the Latin
Mass was normative, but within just a few years the vernacular replaced it
almost entirely. His choir continued to sing Latin masses for some years, but
found a new role in singing
the Office, especially Vespers but occasionally
Compline and Matins. Van
Gerven is widely known for three LPs that he recorded
for the Dutch label Artone; when that label was acquired by CBS, the discs were
issued in this country (USA)
as a boxed set at a very attractive price, and
later were reformatted as two single CDs on Sony.
This disc, made at his
last recording session in 1992, has been issued now to mark the 50th
anniversary of the schola. This Office harkens back before the origin of the
schola, for Matins at Easter had already vanished in 1956 when the Easter
vigil, celebrated at midnight, left no time for it. Celebrating this Office in
1992 served those who want to perpetuate the traditional rite, but since it has
never been recorded before, this disc is really a valuable addition to the
chant discography. The chants will be found in copies of the Liber Usualis from
1934 to 1952; copies from 1956 to 1962 are more commonly available, but they
omit this Office entirely.
The Matins is complete
on one disc because it was the shortest feast day Office of the year, one
nocturn (three psalms, three readings); Pentecost also had one nocturn, but it
had much longer psalms. So we hear the three psalms complete, the three
readings with their responsories complete, followed by the usual Te Deum. There
are some extras too. In the Liber Usualis, the third lesson has no responsory
but is followed directly by the Te Deum (as usual in the secular Office). Here
the extra responsory is Angelus Domini locutus , found in the following Sunday’s Office (the
chant has now been edited in the recently published Nocturnale Romanum ). We also hear the complete Sunday gospel, the doxology Te decet laus , and a seldom-recorded antiphon for Offices of the Blessed
Virgin, Regina caeli (the two familiar chants
for the end of Compline are different). Finally, the gradual for Easter week, Haec dies , is sung with verses for Sunday and Thursday. So the extras
make this an even more interesting release. The excellent singing makes it a
strong recommendation. Never recorded before, it is unlikely to be recorded
again. Grab it while you
can.
J.
F. Weber
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