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Bottega • Aurelio Porfiri

Aurelio Porfiri · June 23, 2014

URELIO PORFIRI OFFERS INSPIRATION to all who work with him. His attitude and gifts have taught me a lot and I owe him a great debt of gratitude. It is a great privilege to know and work with him.” — Colin Mawby (Westminster)


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St. Augustine Mass • “Lord, Have Mercy” :   6166 (organist)   •   6165 (vocalist)   •   (youtube)

St. Augustine Mass • “Holy, Holy, Holy” :   6164 (organist)   •   6163 (vocalist)   •   (youtube)

St. Augustine Mass • “Lamb of God” :   6168 (organist)   •   6167 (vocalist)   •   (youtube)

There’s A Wideness In God’s Mercy (Faber) :   6162 (organist)   •   6161 (vocalist)

The Praises Of My Tongue (Watts) :   6160 (organist)

Hail Mary :   6170 (organist)   •   6169 (vocalist)

Pentatonic Mass • “Glory To God” :   6157 (organist)   •   6156 (vocalist)

Communion Antiphon (9th Sunday in Ordinary Time) :   6153 (organist)   •   6152 (vocalist)

Gospel Acclamation for the Feast of Saint Francis :   5901 (organist)


English Responsorial Psalms

Rejoice In the Lord (Ps. 97) :   6116 (organist)   •   6117 (vocalist)

Here Am I, Lord (Ps. 40) :   6159 (organist)

The Lord Is My Shepherd (Ps. 23) :   6155 (organist)

Have Mercy On Us, O Lord (Ps. 50) :   6158 (organist)


Italian

Presentation of the Gifts (1st Sunday of Advent) :   6142 (organist/cantor)

Introit (1st Sunday of Advent) :   6141 (organist)   •   6140 (cantor)

6139 A te il regno

6138 A Te, Signore

6137 Angelo di Dio

6136 Ave Maria

6135 Io gioisco pienamente Magnificat

6134 Risuoni la mia bocca


Latin

Bone Pastor Panis Vere (From the Lauda Sion) :   6151 (SATB)

O Salutaris Hostia :   6115 (organist/vocalist)

Quid Retribuam Domino :   6114 (organist & vocal parts)

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About Aurelio Porfiri

Renowned as composer, conductor, theorist, author, pedagogue, and organist, Aurelio Porfiri has served the Church on multiple continents at the highest levels. Born and raised in Italy, he currently serves as Director of Choral Activities and Composer in Residence for Santa Rosa de Lima School (Macao, China).

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    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 4th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. I don’t know a more gorgeous ENTRANCE CHANT than the one given there: Misericórdia Dómini Plena Est Terra.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

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— Dom Anselmo Albareda (2 January 1953), Father Nicola Giampietro, page 249

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