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 8, 2018 https://spoti.fi/2JyaWAT
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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Sir Arthur Sullivan: Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heav’n and voices
raise
Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer
Rupert Gough, organ
Antonin Dvorak: Psalm 149 for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 79
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Seiji Ozawa
Sir Arthur Sullivan is perhaps best known as the other half of the famous Gilbert & Sullivan duo of operetta fame. Dvorak was commissioned by the Hlahol Choral Society to compose Psalm 149 in 1879. Originally scored for male voices, the work was rescored for mixed chorus in 1887.
Traditional Shaker, arr. John Bertalot: Lord of the Dance
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys; Saint Thomas Brass, John Scott
Ludwig van Beethoven: Hallelujah ~ Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op. 85
Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Utah Symphony Orchestra, Julius Rudel
Kiri te Kanawa, soprano
English composer and organist John Bertalot (1931-)’s anthem recounts the story of Jesus’ life. The tune is an American Shaker tune known as “Simple Gifts.” Apparently Beethoven wrote “Christ on the Mount of Olives” in a few weeks in 1802, a fact which scholars point to as the reason why some of the music is a bit pedestrian. The much-loved “Hallelujah” chorus is the final movement in this otherwise seldom-performed oratorio.
Leo Sowerby: I Was Glad
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, Larry King
Larry King, organ
Herbert Sumsion: Te Deum Laudamus
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt
Adrian Partington, organ
Larry King (1932-1990) was organist at Trinity Episcopal Church, Wall Street, New York from 1968-1989. Herbert Sumsion (1899—1995) was Organist of Gloucester CAthedral from 1928-1967.
Hector Berlioz: Resurrexit
Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Charles Dutoit
Written in 1824 at age 21. Was supposed to be a part of his Messe Solonelle which he destroyed except for this movement.
Eugene Gigout: Grand choeur dialogue
Amalgam Brass Ensemble, Christopher Jacobson, organ
1932 Aeolian Organ Opus 1785 at Duke University Chapel
The “Resurrexit” movement comes from Berlioz’s “Messe Solonnelle” written when the composer was twenty. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saens, Maitre Gigout’s Grand Choeur dialogué dates from 1881.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 42, “Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats … ”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Robin Blaze, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor; Dominik Worner, bass
The Sinfonia to Cantata 42 is a large-scale instrumental work. You can
only imagine what kind of symphonies Bach might have written had he lived
a couple of decades later.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D, Op. 123
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Barenboim
Tina Kiberg, soprano; Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano
John Aler, tenor; Robert Holl, bass
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