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 – April 23, 2017 https://goo.gl/3tmjgj
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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Giovanni Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Stephen Cleobury
Andrew Wright, organ
Henry Purcell: Lord, how long wilt thou be angry
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Vincent Lubeck: Praembulum in G
Leon W. Couch III, organ
Noack Organ Op. 128 in Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas
Italian composer Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557–1612) flourished at the time when renaissance music was giving way to baroque music. English composer Henry Purcell based his anthem on Psalm 79:5,8,9,13. The work shows Purcell acknowledging his musical heritage from William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons whilst using his own unique chromatic idiom to create a poignant interpretation of the text. North German composer Vincent Lubeck (1654-1740) was organist of Hamburg’s St. Nikolai from 1702–1740. In Lubeck’s day the church had an Arp Schnitger organ of 4 manuals and 67 ranks, making it one of the largest in the world back then.
Joao Lourenco Rebelo: Panis angelicus
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Andrea Gabrieli: Gloria a 16
The King’s Consort and Choir, Robert King
Portuguese composer Joao Lourenco Rebelo (1610-1661) was the last of his era. The uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533–1585) flourished at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice.
Darius Milhaud: Two Prayers for Sabbath Morning~Sacred Service
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Yaron Windmueller, cantor
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault: Gloria in excelsis Deo
Les Demoiselles De Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Mandrin
Emmanuel Mandrin, organ
Temple Emmanuel, San Francisco commissioned Darius Milhaud to composer his Sérvice Sacré in 1948. Les Demoiselles De Saint-Cyr is a choral ensemble named after the young ladies from impoverished noble families who attended La Maison Royale de Saint Louis.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Kyrie ~ Missa Salisburgensis
Musica Antiqua of Cologne; Gabrieli Consort & Players
Reinhard Goebel; Paul McCreesh
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Hymn: Ave, maris stella
Robert Parkins, organ; Henry S. Gibbons, cantor
Brombaugh Organ, Op. 34, in Duke University Memorial Chapel
Musicologists think that Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber wrote his Missa Salisburgensis for the 1100 anniversary celebrations of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, Austria in 1882. The work is scored for 53 voice parts and makes maximum use of the four musicians’ galleries in the cathedral as well as choir positions in the front and back of the nave. From the Duke University Chapel website: “The meantone system of the Chapel’s Brombaugh organ uses pure tuning for major thirds, offering choices of e-flat/d-sharp and g-sharp/a-flat. This means that it favors certain intervals, chords, and keys, while making others unusable. In the “good” keys, the contrast between consonance and dissonance is enhanced. Early music that might seem bland when played on modern instruments ‘springs to life.’ Only a handful of modern meantone organs exist in the United States, and its early Italian design makes the Brombaugh even rarer.”
J.S. Bach: Cantata 67, “Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
The German translates as “Hold in remembrance Jesus Christ”. Bach continues
the celebratory mood of Easter with this short cantata first performed in Leipzig on April 16, 1724. The fourth movement is one of those magical moments in which Bach weaves two contrasting themes and moods. The chorus and orchestra express the confusion and excitement at Jesus’ resurrection. Bach contrasts that with the tranquillity of Jesus’ calm utterance of “Peace be with you.”
George Frideric Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 06, “As pants the Hart for cooling streams”
The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, Harry Christophers
Lynne Dawson, soprano; Ian Partridge, tenor
Chandos Anthem No. 6 is based on Texts from Psalm 42. It is one of eleven anthems, really short cantatas, which Handel wrote for use in the chapel at Cannons, the country home of James Brydges, Duke of Chandos.
Anonymous: Magnificat in the 6th Tone
Rejean Poirier, organ
This anonymous Magnificat is found in “Le Livre d’orgue de Montreal.” This is an 18th manuscript brought to Montreal in 1724 by Jean Girard, a Sulpician cleric.
Josef Haydn: Spring & Summer ~ The Seasons
South German Madrigal Choir; Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Gonnenwein
Edith Mathis, soprano; Nicolai Gedda, tenor; Franz Crass, bass
First performed in 1801, Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons uses a libretto devised by Baron Gottfried van Swieten based on a 1730 poem by James Thomson. Haydn stipulated that the oratorio be sung in both German and English.
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