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GSM – September 10, 2017 https://goo.gl/F8Bs1x
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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H. Walford Davies: Psalm 121 and Requiem aeternam
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown
Sir William Harris: O what their joy and their glory must be
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Benjamin Bayl, organ
Johannes Brahms: How lovely is thy dwelling place ~ A German Requiem
Berlin Radio Choir; Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
Walford Davies was Organist at London’s Temple Church where his assistant
was none other than Leopold Stokowski. “O what their joy and glory must be” is the English translation of a 12th century hymn by Peter Abelard, twelfth century. Brahms wrote “A German Requiem” using a text which he himself assembled from the Lutheran Bible.
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Pie Jesu ~ Requiem
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Emmanuel Villaume
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Gabriel Faure: In paradisum ~ Requiem, Op. 48
Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Charles Dutoit
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Stephen Cleobury
Saul Quirke, treble
Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote his Requiem in memory of his father, William Lloyd Webber. Faure’s setting of the In Paradisum text gives us glimpses of heaven. “May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs receive you at your arrival and lead you to the holy city Jerusalem. May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once a poor man, may you have eternal rest.” This hauntingly beautiful setting of Psalm 51 was composed for use in the Sistine Chapel, the Pope’s private chapel. A 14 year old Mozart heard it and wrote it down from memory.
Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice
Worcester Cathedral Choir; Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt
St. Matthew’s Church, Northampton commissioned English composer Gerald Finzi to write “Lo, the full, final sacrifice” for the 53rd anniversary of the consecration of the church.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 164, “Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Marcel Beekman, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
The German translates as “You, who call yourselves after Christ”. The text includes the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The cantata was first performed on August 16, 1725, in Leipzig.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe des Morts
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet
French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier (c.1634-1704) wrote this Requiem between 1688 and 1698.
Alberto Ginastera: Toccata, Villancico y Fuga
William J. Weisser, organ
Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Cathedral of Saint Philip, Atlanta, Georgia
“The Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera is widely regarded as one of the most important and original South American composers of the 20th century.” Naxos 8.557911-12
W.A. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano; Nathalie Stutzmann, alto;
Christoph Pregardien, tenor; Nathan Berg, bass
“A year after the terrible events of September 11, 2001, choirs in several nations of the Western Hemisphere participated in a unique worldwide tribute to honor the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The “Rolling Requiem,” as the concert was known, planned to have choirs perform Mozart’s Requiem on September 11 in each of the world’s 24 time zones beginning at 8:46 a.m. local time, the moment when the first hijacked aircraft hit the World Trade Center in New York.” With our performance of Mozart’s Requiem, we honor the memory of all who died in the attack of September 11, 2001, as well as all the first responders and other men and women who succumbed to their injuries in the years following the attacks.
Marcel Dupre: Cortege and Litany, Op. 19 No. 2
Peter Richard Conte, organ
Wanamaker Organ in Macy’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
French composer Marcel Dupre wrote his Cortege et Litanie as part of a suite of incidental music for chamber orchestra. In 1925 Wanamaker music director Alexander Russell persuaded Dupre to arrange the work for organ solo and for organ and orchestra. Peter Richard Conte, who has been Grand Court Organist since 1989, plays the solo organ version for us.
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