WE are pleased to offer excerpts from the music sung by the St. Gertrude the Great Choir at Solemn High Mass on Epiphany 2016. The celebrant was Rev. Roberto Mardones of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, who was celebrating the the twenty-fifth anniversary of his priestly ordination.
The selections include:
- Mass in Honor of St. Joseph Calasanctius, Oreste Ravanello (1871–1938, Venetian, Romantic)
- O Magnum Mysterium, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611, Spanish school, Renaissance)
- Brightest and Best (Star of the East), Alastair Cassels-Brown (1927–2001, American, Modern)
- Allegro Maestoso from Sonata II, Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847, French, Romantic)