I post these playlists weekly with the hope that you might find them useful as you plan your programs. All of my playlists are on Spotify for you to enjoy at your convenience.
GSM – February 4, 2018 http://spoti.fi/2GPJBZD
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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J.S. Bach: Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen
Wilhelm Krumbach, organ
Bozeman-Gibson organ in St. Paul’s Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The crown of roses
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Sir Edward Elgar: Lux aeterna
Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
Set to the tune of Nimrod from the Enigma Variations
This chorale prelude is an early work by J.S. Bach. It was only discovered by scholars in a collection contained in the Library at Yale University in 1985. Anton Arensky used the “Crown of Roses” theme in the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 35. Lux aeterna is an antiphon which follows the Agnus Dei in the Latin Requiem Mass. This version uses the music of Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
David Hurd: Christ, Mighty Savior
Choir of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, Thomas Foster
Craig Phillips, organ
Esteban Salas: Salve Regina in C minor
Exaudi Choir of Cuba, María Felicia Peréz
Josef Haydn: Motetti de Venerabili Sacramento
Tafelmusik; Tolzer Knabenchor, Bruno Weil
Matthias Ritter, soprano; Simon Schnorr, alto
Benedikt Schillo, tenor; Panito Iconomou, bass
American composer David Hurd (1950-) wrote the tune “Mighty Savior” for this text which is Mozarabic 10th century. Craig Phillips wrote the descant. Cuban composer Esteban Salas y Castro (1725-1803) is but one of dozens of Latin American composers who flourished during the Baroque era following the conquest by Spain. The Tölzer Knabenchor or Tölz Boys’ Choir was founded in the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz in 1956. It has been based in Munich since 1970.
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur: In Paradisum
Andrew Scanlon, organ
The Perkins & Wells Memorial Organ, C.B. Fisk Op. 126, 2005, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, NC
Leo Sowerby: Benedicite Omnia Opera
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, Larry King
French musician Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908-2002) studied with Charles Tournemire and was a friend of Olivier Messiaen. Dr. Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) was considered by most Episcopal church musicians to be the unofficial Dean of American Church Music.
Antonio Vivaldi: Magnificat in G minor, RV 610
La Maitrise Boreale; La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Lynne Dawson, soprano; James Bowman, counter-tenor
John Elwes, tenor; Stephen Varcoe, baritone
Marcel Dupre: Placare Christe servulis
John Scott, organ
Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi composed several settings of the Magnificat. RV 610 is the original setting for SATB choir, 2 soprano soloists, alto and tenor soloists. French composer Marcel Dupre’s short Toccata comes from his Tombeau de Titleouze.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 18, “Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Marjon Strijk, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto
Robert Getchell, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
The German translates as “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven.” This cantata dates back to Bach’s time at Weimar and was first performed there in 1713 or 1714. He later used it at Leipzig on February 13, 1724.
Christopher Tye: Missa Euge bone
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
Christopher Tye (c.1505-c.1573) was variously a Lay Clerk at King’s College and Master of the Choristers at Ely Cathedral.
Healey Willan: Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Patrick Wedd, organ
1914/1995 Casavant Organ in Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian organist Patrick Wedd has been Director of Music of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal since 1996.
Alessandro Striggio: Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet
Italian composer Alessandro Striggio (1540-1592) was also a diplomat. On one of his trips to England he inspired English composer Thomas Tallis to write his famous 40 voice part motet Spem in Alium so as to not be outdone by Striggio’s motet Ecce beatam lucem which was also scored for 40 voice parts. This mass was only discovered in the 21st century. It is also scored for 40 voice parts except for the Agnus Dei which swells to a sumptuous 60 voice parts.
George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury
While strictly speaking a secular cantata, the Ode which is also known
as “Eternal source of light divine” is worth a listen as one of those grand
Handelian flourishes for an occasion.
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