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 – September 17, 2017 https://goo.gl/dmKD1Q
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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W.A. Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Philharmonia Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Exsultate while visiting Milan in 1773.
Jules Van Nuffel: In convertendo Dominus
Choir of St. Rombaux Cathedral, Malines, Belgium, Johan van Bouwelen
Peter Pieters, organ
Jules Van Nuffel (1883-1953) was a Belgian priest and composer.
Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden
Chamber Choir of Europe; Wurttemberg Philharmonic, Nicol Matt
“Verleih uns Frieden” is one of three pieces which comprise Mendelssohn’s Opus 23. He wrote them in 1830 while he was in Rome after visiting the Vatican.
Sir Edward Elgar: Softly and gently ~ The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano
Sir Edward Elgar’s work for voices and orchestra traces the progress
of a man through death into Purgatory. Elgar used a text by John Henry, Cardinal Newman. The work dates from 1900 and is considered one of the composer’s finest compositions.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Benedicite
Bach Choir; London Symphony Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks
Heather Harper, soprano
English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams used the words from The Song of the Three Young Men which appears in the Book of Daniel 3, 57-88; 56, as well as a poem by J. Austin (1613-1669) for his setting of the Benedicte.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 78, “Jesu, der du meine Seele”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor;
Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass
The second movement of this cantata is one of those remarkable pieces
of writing for which Bach was well-known. The cantata was first performed
on September 10, 1724.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Brevis
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Italian renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina wrote 105 masses. This work was published in 1570 in the composer’s Third Book of Masses.
Anonymous: Magnificat in D
Kenneth Gilbert, organ
1981 Helmut Wolff organ, McGill University.
This anonymous Magnificat is found in “Le Livre d’orgue de Montreal.” This is an 18th manuscript brought to Montreal in 1724 by Jean Girard, a Sulpician cleric.
Josef Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
Leipzig Radio Chorus; Dresden State Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner
Margaret Marshall, soprano; Carolyn Watkinson, contralto;
Keith Lewis, tenor; Robert Holl, bass
The original title of Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass was Missa in Angustiis or Mass for troubled times.
Max Reger: Chorale Fantasia on “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”, Op. 27
Martin Welzel, organ
Johannes Klais Organ, Trier Cathedral
The Klais instrument in Trier Cathedral is a large 4 manual instrument hung in a swallow’s nest case in the north transept. Its stops and voicing are well-suited to the musical demands of Max Reger’s organ music.
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