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 – October 15, 2017 https://goo.gl/eZVYP8
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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Gregorian chant: Benedicamus trope: Congaudeant catholici
Anonymous 4
Medieval chant for St. James from the Codex Calixtinus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown
Anton Bruckner: Gradual: Locus iste
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best
Founded in 1992, Anonymous 4 has produced over 20 CDs and sold over 2 million albums. Palestrina’s motet is a setting of Psalm 137:1-2. While most of us think of Anton Bruckner as a composer of large-scale symphonies, he began his career as an organist. He wrote several exquisite motets during that time.
Alec Wyton: A Hymne to God the Father
Choirs of St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, Donald Pearson
Eric Plutz, organ
Timothy Corlis: The Garden of Dreams
Elektra Women’s Choir, Morna Edmundson
Stephen Smith, piano
Music by contemporary Canadian composer Timothy Corlis; text by Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
Louis Vierne: Berceuse ~ 24 Pieces en style libre
Gordon Turk, organ
1908 Robert Hope-Jones organ in the Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove, New Jersey
English organist Alec Wyton emigrated to America in the 1950s and served as Organist and Choirmaster of New York’s Cathedral of Saint John the Divine from 1954-1974. Canadian composer Timothy Corlis (1972-) has had his music performed and recorded both in Canada and abroad. “The Great Auditorium Organ at Ocean Grove, New Jersey was built by Robert Hope-Jones, the Englishman who immigrated to this country in 1903 and opened his own factory in Elmira, New York in 1907. Ocean Grove, installed in 1908, is certainly his most famous instrument.” …Garden State Theatre Organ Society
Plainsong: Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle
Ely Cathedral Choir, Paul Trepte
Jonathan Lilley, organ
Anton Bruckner: Pange lingua
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best
Sir John Stainer: God so loved the world ~ The Crucifixion
St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir, London, John Scott
Carson Cooman: The Way, the Truth, the Life
Royal Holloway Choir, University of London, Rupert Gough
Samuel Rathbone, organ
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) wrote the hymn “Pange lingua” for the Feast of Corpus Christi. “God so loved the world” is a chorus for SATB which is found in Sir John Stainer’s 1887 oratorio “The Crucifixion.” American composer Carson Cooman (1982-) is a prolific composer who writes in a variety of forms.
Herbert Howells: Te Deum
Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison
Paul Halley, organ
English composer Herbert Howells wrote his Collegium Regale setting of the Morning canticles for King’s College, Cambridge in 1941. The Dean of York, Eric Milner-White, had been Dean of King’s from 1919-1941 and had challenged Howells with the suggestion “that he might be the man to revitalize English church music composition.” Howell’s grand setting of the Te Deum was the composer’s response to that challenge.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 169, “Gott soll allein mein Herze haben”
Concentus Musicus of Vienna; Tolzer Knabenchor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Paul Esswood, alto
This cantata was first performed on October 20, 1726 in Leipzig. The German translates as “God alone shall have my heart.” Bach repurposed a movement from his Harpsichord Concerto in E BWV 1053 for the opening movement of this cantata.
Sergei Taneyev: John of Damascas, Op. 1
Russian National Orchestra; Moscow State Chamber Choir, Mikhail Pletnev
Sergei Taneyev: Chorale Variations
Valeri Rubacha, organ
1891 Walcker organ in Hall of the Capella, St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian composer Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915) based his cantata on the poem by Alexei Tolstoy. The work is also known as “A Russian Requiem.”
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.
Raymond Daveluy: First Sonata for Organ
Rachel Laurin, organ
1960 Von Beckerath Organ in Saint Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal
The great 5 manual von Beckerath organ was restored in 2012 to its original glory. The large principal pipes in the facade had begun to collapse under their own weight.
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