Saint Nicolas

Jehan_Boutte

Blessed feast of Saint Nicolas!

Here is a well-known and loved little French song about Saint Nicolas rising three children from the dead: https://youtu.be/Q4MkozomPcA
Once a very popular song among children, and still a very well-written one.

OMagnumMysterium

Nice!
Here are a few chants in honor of St. Nicolas that a friend sent me a year ago. Supposedly, "Intonent hodie" for St. Nicolas was the basis for "Personent hodie," not the other way around.

Polyfollia

The repertoire that honours Saint Nicolas is rather limited, seems me...

We sang however these two beauties:

- Beatus Nicolaus à 8 by Orlando di Lasso
- O Pastor aeternae (de Sancto Nicolao) à 8 by Peter Philips

DCM

For lauds, in choosing an antiphon from the options in the common of pastors, I found it amusing, for obvious reasons, to use the antiphon Stolam iucunditatis, "The Lord clothed him with a robe of gladness..."

Richard Mix

The Philips is indeed a beauty. I've started transcribing it for CPDL, which still has some other red links for both Cantiones sacrae octonis vocibus and the 5vv publication.

Polyfollia

Thank you for your transcription in F that enriched CPDL yesterday!
(Are you going to fill the gaps in the "Cantiones sacrae" series? Would be great...)
Last year here in Antwerp we performed "O Pastor aeternae" in G which gave it a bit more brilliance.

In 1994 we recorded "O Pastor" and some other of Philips' pearls with Van Nevel on Accent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCLAPhRhPHk

Daniel Bennett Page

Obviously too late for this year, one might find useful materials here: http://www.stnicholascenter.org
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Simon

John Tavener's (the younger one) Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas is a nice piece as is Arvo Pärt's Triodion: Ode III: O Holy Saint Nicholas

Richard Mix

Are you going to fill the gaps

Instead I had in mind setting an example, but if there's pay…

Simon

It's fairly new music. You always pay. Just seaarch online for printed music. You may be able to listen online via youtube. Composers need income from their work. And their family after their departure from this earth.

Polyfollia

Fair enough, Richard! I can only respond to that with understanding and from my own experience in the affirmative! Where it is already difficult to move resources in the direction of "young composers" of "new works", it is almost impossible to mobilize financial capacity to make centuries-old musical crown jewels accessible and "readable" again! Unfortunately, an entire music industry is sawing the legs from under its chairs in this way... Unfortunately, to date, the "guardians" of our musical past have all too often been driven idealists who often push their boundaries to or over the edge of exhaustion... Ugh, I had to get this off my chest...

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