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 23, 2018 https://spoti.fi/2xxI47B
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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William Byrd: O lux beata Trinitas
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
César Franck: Psalm 150
Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Utah Symphony Orchestra, Julius Rudel
Kiri te Kanawa, soprano
Herbert Howells: Nunc dimittis
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Karen Kerslake, soprano
The vespers hymn “O lux beata Trinitas” is thought to have been written by the fourth century Bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose. Belgian composer César Franck’s setting of Psalm 150 dates from 1883. Herbert Howells “Nunc Dimittis is scored for double choir and was written for R.R. Terry in 1914 for use in Compline at Westminster Cathedral.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Kyrie ~ Missa solemnis in D, Op. 123
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Daniel Barenboim
Tina Kiberg, soprano; Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano
John Aler, tenor; Robert Holl, bass
Henry Purcell: Remember not, O Lord
Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison
Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” was composed between 1819 to 1823 and first performed in Saint Petersburg in 1824. “Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z50” by English composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) dates from 1680.
GSM Commentary: Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown is the Director of Music and Organist of University Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
J.S. Bach: Fugue in E flat, BWV 552 “St. Anne”
Thomas Brown, organ
1982 Laukhuff organ at University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, NC
The “Fugue in E flat” is the concluding work in Bach’s ” Clavier-Übung III.”
Thomas Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah, second set
The King’s Singers
Juan Cabanilles: Pasacalles I
Robert Parkins, organ
1976 Flentrop Organ in Duke University Chapel
Peter Philips notes that “Tallis’ ‘Lamentations’ were probably intended as independent motets for use during Holy Week and not for any other ritual office.” Dr. Robert Parkins has been the University Organist of Duke University since 1985.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 114, “Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor
Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass
One translation of the German title is “Ah, dear Christians, be comforted”. The opening chorus is a stunner with the chorale tune surrounded by a tapestry of instrumental sound such as Bach wrote with such mastery and assurance.
W.A. Mozart: Missa solemnis in C, K. 337
Leipzig Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Kegel
Mitsuko Shirai, soprano; Rosemarie Lang, contralto
Aldo Baldin, tenor; Hermann Christian Polster, bass
Mozart’s Missa Solemnis in C minor dates from 1768. It is subtitled the Waisenhausmesse or Orphanage Mass because it was commissioned for the dedication of an orphanage.
Max Reger: Dankpsalm, Op. 145 No. 2
Stephen Cleobury, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ at King’s College, Cambridge
Reger’s “dankpsalm” or Thanksgiving Psalm dates from 1915.
Alexander Agricola: Missa Guazzabuglio
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel
Alexander Agricola (1445 or 1446–1506) was a Franco-Flemish composer about whom we know very little. He didn’t actually compose a “Missa Guazzabuglio.” Conductor Paul van Nevel stitched together five movements of other masses which Agricola had written to create this pastiche.
Imant Raminsh: Magnificat
Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn
Sandra Graham, mezzo-soprano
Latvian-born composer Imant Raminsh (1943-) emigrated to Canada in 1948. His “Magnificat” dates from 1990.
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