I post these playlists weekly with the hope that you might find them useful
as you plan your music lists. All of my playlists are on Spotify for you to
enjoy at your convenience.
GSM – January 15, 2017 https://goo.gl/tYB3ox
Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed
on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.
Rob Kennedy
WCPE The Classical Station
Web: TheClassicalStation.org
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Pavel Chesnokov: Let Us Take Refuge in the Holy Mother…
Chamber Choir “Lege Artis”, Boris Abalyan
Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Beatitudes
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Viktor Kalinnikov: Gentle Light
St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Nikolai Korniev
Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) wrote over 400 sacred choral works before the Russian Revolution curtailed his writing. The Russian of Rachmaninoff’s work is “Vo tsarstvii Tvoem”. The text is taken from Matthew 5:3-12. Viktor Kalinnikov is the younger brother of the better-known composer Vasily Kalinnikov.
Peter I. Tchaikovsky: Cherubic Hymn in D
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best
Alexander Grechaninov: Hail, gladdening Light ~ Liturgy of the Holy Week, Op. 58
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown
Vasily Titov: O Thou Joy of all the sorrowful
Chanticleer, Joseph Jennings
Tchaikovsky left us 40 sacred choral compositions including three settings of the Cherubic Hymn. According to Musica Russia, Grechaninov composed four settings of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, an All-Night Vigil, and a cycle of hymns from Passion Week, as well as approximately 20 shorter works. Baroque composer Vasily Titov (c.1650–c.1715) wrote over 200 sacred choral works most of which are rarely performed nowadays.
Paul Hindemith: 1st Movement ~ Organ Sonata No. 2
Timothy Olsen, organ
1965 Flentrop organ in Shirley Hall, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Anton Arensky: Otche Nash
Lane Justus Chorale, Lane Justus
Alexander Borodin, arr. Leopold Stokowski: Requiem
Philharmonia Orchestra; BBC Symphony Chorus, Geoffrey Simon
Ian Boughton, tenor
Timothy Olsen is the Kenan Professor of Organ at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Associate Professor of Organ at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. “Otche Nash” translates as “Our Father” and is a setting of the Pater Noster prayer. Borodin’s Requiem really isn’t a requiem. Leopold Stokowski took this very short work and arranged it for tenor, men’s chorus and orchestra.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Blessed is the man ~ All Night Vigil, Op. 37
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Grant Llewellyn
Sergei Taneyev: Chorale Variations
Valeri Rubacha, organ
Walcker in Hall of the Capella, St. Petersburg, Russia
He was a close friend of Peter Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff wrote his setting of the All Night Vigil in 1917. The work is frequently titled Vespers although strictly speaking only the first six of the fifteen movements of the composition pertain to the Vespers portion of the Vigil. Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915) taught piano, harmony and composition at the Moscow Conservatory.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 155, “Mein Gott, wie lang’, ach lange”
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman
Caroline Stam, soprano; Elisabeth von Magnus, alto;
Paul Agnew, tenor; Klaus Mertens, bass
The German translates as “My God, how long, ah, how long.” This cantata was written for the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany. Of interest is the second movement which is a duet for alto and tenor with a rather remarkable bassoon obbligato.
Peter I. Tchaikovsky: Moscow: Coronation Cantata
Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Andrew Litton
Svetlana Furdui, mezzo-soprano; Vassily Gerello, baritone
Tchaikovsky wrote this work in 1883 for the coronation of Alexander III of Russia. The cantata consists of six movements and is scored for mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra.
Heinrich Schutz: Kleine Geistliche Konzerte: Part 1
Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes
Heinrich Schutz wrote his Kleine geistliche Konzerte (“Little Sacred Concertos”) in the 1630s. The music consists of solos, duets and trios because grander musical forces were not available after the end of the Thirty Years War.
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