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GSM – January 20, 2017 https://spoti.fi/2T6b8vF
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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Dietrich Buxtehude: Chorale Prelude: “Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu
Christ”, BuxWV196, Robert Noehren, organ
Noehren organ in First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, California
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Osculetur me
Stile Antico
Traditional American folk tune, arr. by Mack Wilberg: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Orchestra at Temple Square, Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg
Dr. Robert Noehren (1910–2002) was a distinguished musician, recitalist
and organ builder who was for many years Chairman of the Organ Department
at the University of Michigan. Palestrina’s collected works comprise some 32 volumes of music. 18th century pastor and hymnist Robert Robinson wrote the text for Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. The hymn is commonly sung to the tune Nettleton.
Gabriel Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge, George Guest
Stephen Cleobury, organ
Daniel E. Gawthrop: How Excellent Is Thy Name
Utah State University Chamber Singers, Cory Evans
Jonathan Rose, organ
Alexandre Guilmant: Paraphrase on “See the conqu’ring hero comes”
Jonathan Bielby, organ
Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall
Faure composed his Cantique de Jean Racine in 1864-65 at age 19. Daniel Gawthrop (1949-) is an American composer of choral and organ music. Over the years he has been commissioned to write more than one hundred original works. The Henry Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall was built for an exhibition hall in Newport, South Wales in 1860. It was moved to Huddersfield Town Hall. The instrument was rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1980.
GSM Commentary – The Reverend Bob Innskeep
Philip Bliss: When peace like a river
National Lutheran Choir, Dr. David Cherwien
Basil Harwood: Thy hand, O God, has guided
Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer
Rupert Gough, organ
Horatio Spafford wrote the text of the hymn “When peace like a river.” English priest Edward Hayes Plumptre wrote the text of the hymn “Thy hand, O God, has guided” in 1864.
W.A. Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Exsultate while visiting Milan in 1773.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 3, “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Dorothee Mields, soprano; Pascal Bertin, countertenor
Gerd Turk, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone
Translation: “Ah God, how oft a heartfelt grief ”
“Ah God, how many heart pains” is one translation of the German. This cantata was written for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany. It was first performed on January 14, 1725, in Leipzig.
Anton Bruckner: Te Deum
Chorus of the German Opera, Berlin; Berlin Philharmonic, Eugen Jochum
Maria Stader, soprano; Sieglinde Wagner, contralto
Ernst Haefliger, tenor; Peter Lagger, bass
Austrian composer Anton Bruckner began composing this work in 1881, about the same time as he was completing his Symphony No. 6 and starting on Symphony No. 7.
Louis Vierne: Final ~ Sixth Symphony for Organ, Op. 59
Michael Farris, organ
Casavant Organ in the Cathedral of St. Peter, Erie, Pennsylvania
Louis Vierne plus Michael Farris on a magnificent Casavant equals lots of fire in our last selection for this hour.
Don Lorenzo Perosi: Missa Pontificalis
Coro Polifonico Castelbarco di Avio; I Virtuosi Italiani
Arturo Sacchetti; chorus master, Luigi Azzolini
Dr. Michael Dubiaga, Jr. writes: “As an advisor to popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII, Perosi remained an influential director and prolific composer at the Sistine Chapel for more than half a century.”
Johann Stamitz: Litanie Lauretane
Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble; Bremen Baroque Orchestra, Wolfgang Helbich
Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (1717-1757) was a Czech composer whose music bridged the baroque and classical periods. He was appointed to the German court of Mannheim in the 1740s. His Germanized name was Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz.
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