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 24, 2019 https://spoti.fi/2SsxaHV
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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John Goss: Praise, my soul, the King of heaven
Choir of Liverpool Cathedral, David Poulter
Ian Tracey, organ
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Lauda Sion
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Stephen Cleobury
Imant Raminsh: Ave Maria
Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn
Sandra Graham, mezzo-soprano
English organist and composer Sir John Goss (1800-1880) was organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, where his mission was to raise the standards of music. The text of “Praise my soul, the King of Heaven” was written by Henry Francis Lyte. Stephen Cleobury was Master of the Music of Westminster Cathedral in London from 1979-1982 before he was appointed Director of Music for King’s College, Cambridge. Latvian-born Canadian composer Imant Raminsh (1943-)is perhaps best known for his many choral works.
R. Nathaniel Dett: Don’t be weary, traveler
Quire Cleveland, Ross W. Duffin
R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was Canadian-American composer of African
descent.
Rene Clausen: Prayer
Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy
Clausen, an American composer born 1953
Healey Willan: Prelude on Aberystwyth
Patrick Wedd, organ
Casavant Organ (1914, 1995) of the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal
Quire Cleveland is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and breathing new life into nine centuries of extraordinary choral music. American composer Dr. René Clausen (1953-) is highly regarded as a composer, choral conductor and clinician. Casavant Freres has been building pipe organs in its St. Hyacinthe, Quebec plant since 1879.
Commentary: Douglas Dodson
Marcel Tyberg: Kyrie~Mass in F
South Dakota Chorale, Brian Schmidt
George Frideric Handel: How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees ~ Jeptha
Howard University Choir; Handel Festival Orchestra of Washington
Stephen Simon
Stan Schmidt writes: “This music reverberates the joy of a devout man and brilliant musician. The Mass creates an ambiance of late Romantic structure and the harmonic composition resembles other masters like Mahler and Bruckner. From Wikipedia: “Whilst writing Jephtha, Handel was increasingly troubled by his gradual loss of sight, and this proved to be his last oratorio.[1] In the autograph score, at the end of the chorus ‘How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees’ he wrote ‘Reached here on 13 February 1751, unable to go on owing to weakening of the sight of my left eye.'”
Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium
Pro Cantione Antigua, Mark Brown
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) composed his forty part (eight five part choirs) motet in response to the forty part motet “Ecce beatam lucem” which Italian composer Alessandro Striggio brought to London in 1567.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 181, “Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Marjon Strijk, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto
Nico van der Meel, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
The delightful German title of this cantata translates as “Scatterbrained and shallow people” according to Simon Crouch. The cantata was first performed on February 13, 1724.
John Blow: The glorious day is come
Parley of Instruments; Playford Consort, Peter Holman and Richard Wistreich
Suzie Le Blanc, soprano; Michael Chance, counter-tenor
Joseph Cornwell, tenor; Jozic Koc, bass
English composer John Blow wrote The glorious day is come as an Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, 22 November, 1691.
Leo Sowerby: Carillon
Robert Parris, organ
1927 E.M. Skinner organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rochester, NY
American composer Leo Sowerby lived from May 1, 1895 – July 7, 1968. His Carillon dates from 1917.
Antonio Vivaldi: Laudate pueri Dominum, RV 600
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri
Margaret Marshall, soprano; Jacques Ogg, organ
Vivaldi’s setting of Psalm 112 dates to the 1720s.
Ferdinando Bertoni: Miserere
Stockholm Radio Chorus; I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone
Patricia Schuman, soprano; Margarita Zimmermann, mezzo-soprano
Italian composer Ferdinando Bertoni (1725–1813) wrote seventy operas and over two hundred sacred works.
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