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 – June 10, 2018 https://spoti.fi/2JGpSjo
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 Joseph Barnby: When morning gilds the skies
Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer
Rupert Gough, organ
Jacopo da Bologna: O cieco mondo
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel
Sir William Harris: Faire is the heaven
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown
“When morning gilds the skies” was recorded by Wells Cathedral Choir as part of their five CD set entitled “The English Hymn” released in 1999. Italian composer Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – c. 1386) was highly regarded for his madrigals. “O cieco mondo” translates as “O blind world” and is an example of the Italian lauda. Sir William Harris selected the text for his anthem “Faire is the heaven” from Edmund Spenser’s poem “An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty.”
Johannes Brahms: Missa Canonica (1856)
St. Clement’s Choir, Philadelphia, Peter Richard Conte
Ken Cowen, organ
Although composed in 1856, Brahms’ Missa Canonica was never performed until 1983.
Leo Sowerby: Great is the Lord
Gloriae Dei Cantores, Elizabeth Patterson
We will observe the 100th anniversary of Leo Sowerby’s death on July 7. Read Harold Stover’s article on Dr. Sowerby at https://www.albany.edu/piporg-l/Sowerby.html
Jacob Obrecht: Salve Regina
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
This setting of the “Salve Regina” text by Jacob Obrecht (1457/8-1505) alternates plainsong with polyphonic writing.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 2, “Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Dorothee Mields, soprano; Pascal Bertin, countertenor
Gerd Turk, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone
The German translates as “Oh God, look down from Heaven”. In the first movement Bach sets this rather severe text from Psalm 12 with the altos singing the cantus firmus around which he crafts some fugal writing. The first performance was on June 18, 1724.
Healey Willan: Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue
Patrick Wedd, organ
1995/1914 Casavant Organ of the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal
Canadian organist Patrick Wedd has been Director of Music of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal since 1996.
Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Rossana Bertini, soprano; Silvia Piccollo, soprano; Gloria Banditelli, contralto
About this work, Lionel Salter writes in Gramophone:
“Alessandro Scarlatti was only 24 and had just begun his enormously successful operatic career when he set a libretto by that great Roman patron of the arts, Cardinal Pamphili, on the subject of repentance and divine grace. It was performed before a distinguished audience by a small group of leading singers and instrumentalists of the day in March 1685—the year of the birth of Alessandro’s son Domenico (in fact, as a matter of interest, three days before the birth of J. S. Bach). This simple little morality (oratorio is too grandiose a term for it) shows Magdalen torn between youthful pleasures and repentance for hedonistic living.”
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