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GSM – October 14, 2018 https://spoti.fi/2yDtGdD
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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Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt
Irish traditional, arr. John Rutter: Be Thou my vision
Atlanta Sacred Chorale, Eric Nelson
Samuel Wesley: Ave Regina caelorum
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge. The Atlanta Sacred Chorale is now called the Atlanta Master Chorale. While Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) came from a
Methodist family, he converted to Catholicism later in life.
Orazio Benevolo: Miserere
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet
Herbert Howells: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Choir of Gloucester Cathedral, John Sanders
Mark Blatchly, organ
Franco-Italian composer Orazio Benevolo (1605-1672) flourished in Rome where he held several important posts. He composed many large scale works most of which have been performed infrequently much less recorded. Herbert Howells studied at Gloucester Cathedral with organist Herbert Brewer.
GSM Commentary: The Reverend Canon Ian MacGregor
William Byrd: O lux beata Trinitas
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
Gordon Slater: Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee
Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison
Paul Halley, organ
The vespers hymn “O lux beata Trinitas” is thought to have been written by the fourth century Bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose. Gordon Slater (1896–1979) was organist of Leicester and Lincoln Cathedrals.
John Rutter: Winchester Te Deum
Cambridge Singers; brass and percussion of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Rutter
Max Reger: Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor
Peter Hurford, organ
1978 Rieger Organ in Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany
As Oxford University Press notes: ” [The] Winchester Te Deum is a glorious work with a great sense of ceremony. German organist Max Reger was a prolific composer who wrote dozens of fiendishly difficult compositions for organ, this being one. English organist Peter Hurford plays the work on the very fine Austrian Rieger organ in Ratzeburg Cathedral.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 162, “Ach, ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur”
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman
Barbara Schlick, soprano; Elisabeth von Magnus, alto
Paul Agnew, tenor; Klaus Mertens, bass
This early cantata was first performed on October 25, 1716 in Weimar. The German translates as “Ah! I see, now as I go to the wedding.”
Antonio Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus in D, RV 594
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury
Sarah Fox and Deborah Norman, soprano; Michael Chance, counter-tenor
James Gilchrist, tenor; Jonathan Lemalu, bass
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote two settings of Dixit Dominus, RV 594 and 595. We shall hear the former setting which is more frequently performed than its sibling.
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata in A, Op. 65 No. 3
Andrew Scanlon, organ
The Perkins & Wells Memorial Organ, C.B. Fisk Op. 126, 2005, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina
German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote six sonatas for organ which have become staples of an organist’s repertoire.
Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D minor
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Eugen Jochum
Edith Mathis, soprano; Marga Schiml, alto;
Wieslaw Ochman, tenor; Karl Ridderbusch, bass
Anton Bruckner’s Mass No. 1 in D minor was first performed on 20 November 1864 in the old Linz Cathedral.
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G, BWV 572
Masaaki Suzuki, organ
Bach’s BWV 572 dates from his time at Weimar. The original manuscript has been lost. We have a copy made by one of Bach’s students as the source material.
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