Comfort at One

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With musical performances returning to Trinity Church Wall Street in-person as of March 2022, Comfort at One, one of Trinity's pandemic online musical offerings, has been retired. We hope these performances helped you find a daily haven of peace and comfort during trying times.

To watch archived Comfort at One performances, browse the list below or visit our music video portal for even more concerts.

MusicApril 23, 2021

Comfort at One: Bach's BWV 230

In a joyous reflection of spring’s return and Easter rebirth, today’s Comfort at One is a special “at church” offering: Bach’s Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230.

MusicApril 22, 2021

Comfort at One: Organist Katelyn Emerson

Comfort at One brings back our Thursday Pipes at One series from the inauguration of the Noack organ at St Paul’s Chapel in 2018. Today’s organ recital is from February 21, 2018 and is performed by Katelyn Emerson.

MusicApril 21, 2021

Comfort at One: Peace I Leave with You

Today for Comfort at One, we share with you a choral meditation: Peace I Leave with You by Amy Beach featuring members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, led by associate organist Janet Yieh.

MusicApril 20, 2021

Comfort at One: Poulenc's Figure Humaine

What is known as Poulenc’s most challenging choral work, Figure Humaine embodies great suffering and oppression, juxtaposed with the hope for freedom from tyranny. This clip contains Movement 16: Le jour m’étonne et la nuit me fait peur.

MusicApril 19, 2021

Comfort at One: Bach's BWV 8 and BWV 113

In 2018, Bach at One welcomed the addition of the Noack organ in St. Paul’s Chapel by pairing favorite cantatas with Bach’s magnificent Preludes and Fugues and Leipzig Chorales. The concert features Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8 and Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113.

MusicApril 16, 2021

Comfort at One: Britten's The Last Rose of Summer

Today’s at-home performance of Comfort At One comes from versatile and stunning tenor, and Trinity's Downtown Voices Director, Stephen Sands. As a part of Music in the Somerset Hills where he is the Artistic Director, Stephen performs The Last Rose of Summer by Benjamin Britten.

MusicApril 15, 2021

Comfort at One: Guilmant, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and Bach

Pipes at One returns to Comfort at One Thursdays with today's stunning 2018 performance by Trinity associate organist Janet Yieh. She plays the music of Guilmant, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Bach, Thalben-Ball and Reger.

MusicApril 14, 2021

Comfort at One: Ola Gjelio’s Ubi Caritas

Enjoy this stunning choral meditation for today’s Comfort at One: Ola Gjelio’s Ubi Caritas led by associate director of music Melissa Attebury and accompanied by Farrah Dupoux.

MusicApril 13, 2021

Comfort at One: Brahms

After his Requiem was premiered in 1868, Brahms later added a movement for solo soprano “I will comfort you as one whom his own mother comforteth.” This epic work that is now known as piece of hope and solace was performed on the finale of the Time’s Arrow Festival: Webern.

MusicApril 12, 2021

Comfort at One: Bach's Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7

This may be Bach’s most quintessentially Trinitarian cantatas. With references to the Trinity throughout the form, rhythm, structure, and text, Bach's Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7 is performed alongside Heinichen’s Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore, S. 228, featuring Gonzalo Ruiz.