Music performed by collegiate choirs this Sunday. Our featured full length work in Hour 3

is Louis Spohr's The Last Judgement. I have never performed this piece. Have any of you

ever heard it performed or have sung in a performance of it? I have always loved Spohr's music.

He tends to be overshadowed by folks like Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann since he straddled

the classical and romantic periods.

 

Thanks for supporting Great Sacred Music and The Classical Station. Have a wonderful weekend.

 

Rob

Rob Kennedy
Great Sacred Music (Sundays: 8-11 a.m.)
The Classical Station
http://theclassicalstation.org

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08:02:00
Kievo-Pechersky Chant: Blessed is the Man
Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus, Denis Mickiewicz

 

Rihards Dubra: Oculus Non Vidit
Cambridge Chorale, Michael Kibblewhite

 

Robert Schumann: Sketch in D flat ~ 4 Sketches for Organ, Op. 58
Michael Farris, organ
The Fisk organ in Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

 

The Yale Russian Chorus is a male ensemble which was founded in 1953

by Denis Mickiewicz. Rihards Dubra (1964- ) is a Latvian composer. C.B. Fisk, Inc.

is a Gloucester, Massachusetts based organ builder.

 

08:17:31
William Henry Monk: Abide with me
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Bruce Blyth, treble; Richard Farnes, organ

 

John Rutter: Wedding Canticle (Psalm 128)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown
Stewart French, guitar; Daniel Pailthorpe, flute

 

Louis Vierne: Epitaph
Simon Lindley, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ in Leeds Parish Church

 

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge was founded by King

Henry VIII in 1441 to provide daily sung services in his chapel

at Cambridge. John Rutter (1945- ) has a strong North Carolina

connection since one of his publishers is Hinshaw Music of Chapel

Hill. Simon Lindley was a classmate of mine at the Royal College of

Music. He has been organist of Leeds Parish Church since 1975.

 

08:33:23
Thomas Weelkes: Alleluia, I heard a voice
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington

 

Samuel Wesley: Ave Regina caelorum
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber

 

Camille Saint-Saëns: Berceuse in E, Op. 105
Joachim Dorfmuller, organ
Klais organ in Altenberg Cathedral

 

Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) was organist of Chichester Cathedral

from 1601-1623. While Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) came from a

Methodist family, he converted to Catholicism later in life. Camille

Saint Saens (1835-1921) was organist of the Eglise Madeleine in Paris

and renowned for his brilliant improvisations.

08:47:09
Amy Beach: Lord of All Being, Op. 146
Harvard University Choir, Murray Forbes Somerville
Erica Johnson, organ

 

Charles Marie Widor: Marche pontificale ~ Symphony No. 1
Jane Parker-Smith, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ of Coventry Cathedral

 

Dr. Murray Forbes Somerville (1947- ) was organ scholar at New

College, Oxford, under Dr. David Lumsden. Jane Parker-Smith studied

with Jean Langlais in Paris after completing her studies at the Royal College of Music.

 

09:03:26
J.S. Bach: Cantata 39, "Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot"
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Gillian Keith, soprano; Wilke te Brummelstroete, alto; Paul Agnew, tenor; Dietrich Henschel, bass

 

Bach's Cantata 39, written for the First Sunday after Trinity, has as its theme feeding the poor.

 

09:26:16
Franz Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G, D. 167
Vienna Boys' Choir; Chorus Viennensis;
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bruno Weil
Arno Hartmann, organ

 

Schubert composed his G major mass in one week in 1815.

 

09:48:03
Louis Spohr: The Last Judgement
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; South German Radio Choir,
Gustav Kuhn
Mitsuko Shirai, soprano; Marjana Lipovsek,mezzo-soprano;
Josef Protschka, tenor; Matthias Holle, bass

 

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) wrote his oratorio The Last Judgement in 1826.