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 – August 13, 2017 https://goo.gl/8WzK2u
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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Peter Philips: Surgens Jesus
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Pietro Mascagni: Regina coeli (Easter Hymn) ~ Cavalleria rusticana
Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Utah Symphony Orchestra, Julius Rudel
Kiri te Kanawa, soprano
Andre Caplet: O salutaris
BBC Singers, Stephen Jackson
English composer Peter Philips published his setting of “Surgens Jesus” in his Cantiones Sacrae of 1612. The musical forces which appear in this morning’s performance of Mascagni’s Easter Hymn are as rich and lush as the music itself. French composer Andre Caplet (1878–1925) won the Prix de Rome
in 1901 and was a close friend of Claude Debussy.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Elegiac Song, Op. 118
London Symphony Orchestra; Ambrosian Singers, Michael Tilson-Thomas
“Gently, as you lived, have you died, too holy for sorrow! Let no eye shed tears for the spirit’s heavenly homecoming.”
Henry Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Cesar Franck: Cantabile
Piet Kee, organ
1863 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Basilica de Santa Maria del Coro, San Sebastian, Spain
Beethoven’s “Elegischer Gesang” (“Elegiac Song”), Op. 118 dates from 1814. It is one of the composer’s least known works. “Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z50” by English composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) dates from 1680. Cesar Franck’s Cantabile is one of the composer’s set entitled “Trois Pieces” which dates from 1878.
Tomas Luis da Victoria: O magnum mysterium
New England Conservatory Choir, Erica Washburn
Morten Lauridsen: Ave Maria
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Victoria’s motet “O magnum mysterium” is a setting of a Christmas responsary and dates from 1572. Morten Johannes Lauridsen (1943-) was born in Colfax, Washington,. He was a Forest Service firefighter before becoming a composer.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: The Lord is my Shepherd
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt
Paul Trepte, organ
Juan Bautista José Cabanilles: Corrente Italiana
Sean McCarthy, organ
1993 Randall Dyer organ in Queen of Peace Church, Ocala, Florida
Stanford’s setting of Psalm 23 dates from 1886 and shows influences of Brahms. Sean McCarthy plays Randall Dyer & Associates’ Opus 58 which
they installed in 1993.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 168, “Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort”
Concentus Musicus of Vienna; Tolzer Knabenchor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Helmut Wittek, soprano; Christian Immler, alto;
Kurt Equiluz, tenor; Robert Holl, bass
English trans: “Give an account of thyself! Word of thunder!”
The German translates as “Give an account of thyself! Word of thunder!” The theme of the cantata is the parable of the unjust steward in Luke 16:1-13. It was first performed on July 29, 1725.
Sir George Dyson: Hierusalem
St. Michael’s Singers; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Rennert
Valery Hill, soprano; Thomas Trotter, organ
‘Hierusalem is a wonderful piece which I would bracket with Finzi’s Dies Natalis and Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi as one of the best examples of mystical ecstasy which certain British choral works achieve’ (Gramophone)
Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Au travail suis
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
“Au travail suis” was a song which Ockeghem used as the theme of this mass. Ockeghem’s music written in the fifteenth century sounds fresh and vital to our ears which are accustomed to a wide variety of musical styles. One can only imagine what fifteenth century listeners made of it.
Ernest Bloch: Sacred Service
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Ernest Bloch
Marko Rothmuller, bass-baritone; Dorothy Bond, soprano;
Doris Cowan, contralto
This moving performance from 1950 of Ernest Bloch’s moving “Avodat Hakodesh or Sacred Service” was conducted by the composer. The work was commissioned by Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco in the 1930s.
Franz Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Peter Hurford, organ
1978 Rieger organ in Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt composed his Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H for the consecration of the Ladegast organ in the Merseburg Cathedral. English organist Peter Hurford plays the work on the very fine Austrian Rieger organ in Ratzeburg Cathedral.
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