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 16, 2019 https://spoti.fi/2MVnuYO
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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J.B. Dykes: Holy! Holy! Holy!
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Richard Gowers, organ
Gabriel Jackson: Hymn to the Trinity
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
John Dunstable: Ave maris stella
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
John Bacchus Dykes wrote over fifty-seven hymn tunes, most of which are still in use today. His tune “Nicaea” for Reginald Heber’s text “Holy! Holy! Holy!” is published in approximately 1,400 hymnals. Gabriel Jackson’s motet takes its text from the Sixth Respond at Matins, Trinity Sunday. The Binchois Consort was founded by Andrew Kirkman in 1995.
Ola Gjeilo: Ubi caritas
Utah State University Chamber Singers, Cory Evans
Kevin Olson, piano
Giovanni Felice Sances: Gloria ~ Missa Sancta Maria Magdalenae
Duke Vespers Ensemble; Mallarme Chamber Players; Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Brian Schmidt
Christopher Jacobson, organ
Anonymous: Tierce en taille in C
Kenneth Gilbert, organ
1981 Helmut Wolff organ, McGill University.
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (1978-) has written that his setting of “Ubi caritas” was inspired by Maurice Durufle’s setting of the same text. Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Sances (1600-1679) was highly regarded in his day as a composer of sacred music, chamber works and even an occasional opera or two. “Le Livre d’orgue de Montreal” is an 18th manuscript brought to Montreal in 1724 by Jean Girard, a Sulpician cleric.
Commentary: Douglas Keilitz
George Frideric Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim ~ Samson
Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Gerard Schwarz
Judith Blegen, soprano; Gerard Schwarz, trumpet
Herbert Howells: All my hope on God is founded
Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer
Rupert Gough, organ
Handel composed his oratorio “Samson” after “Messiah.” Its first performance was in February 1743. The text of “All my hope on God is founded” was translated from the German by Robert Bridges in 1899. The tune “Michael” was penned by Herbert Howells in 1936 and has been a most felicitous pairing with that text ever since.
John Rutter: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace
Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter
Rene Clausen: The Lamb
Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy
Lindsey Lang, soprano
Healey Willan: Epilogue
Patrick Wedd, organ
Casavant Organ (1914, 1995) of the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal
Rutter set the text of “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace” for SATB choir and organ or orchestra. The text has been commonly attributed to St. Francis of Assisi although no evidence of the text exists before 1912. Grammy Award-winning American composer Rene Clausen (1953-) is conductor of The Concordia Choir, and professor of music at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Canadian organist Patrick Wedd (1948-2019) died on May 19. He was Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, Quebec from 1996-2018.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 176, “Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto; Bas Ramselaar, bass
First performed on May 27, 1725 in Leipzig Cantata 176 takes its text from Jeremiah 17:9. Paul Gerhardt and Christiane Mariane von Ziegler whose cantata librettos Bach greatly admired wrote the libretto.
John Tavener: Hymn to the Holy Spirit
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington
“Hymn to the Holy Spirit” dates from 1987 and was commissioned by Channel 4 television.
Alexandre Guilmant: Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 80
Ben van Oosten, organ
Cavaille-Coll-Organ at St. Ouen, Rouen
French composer and organist Alexandre Guilmant was organist of Paris’ Eglise de la Trinite from 1871-1901.
Charles Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass
New Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir of Radio France, Georges Prêtre
Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Laurence Dale, tenor
Jean-Philippe Lafont, bass; Jean-Louis Gil, organ
French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) wrote over twelve operas and six oratorios. But like Johann Pachelbel who is remembered solely for his Canon in D, Gounod’s reputation rests on an “Ave Maria” which he wrote based on a prelude of Johann Sebastian Bach. Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass was first performed on St. Cecilia’s Day, November 22 in 1855.
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
Nicholas Danby, organ
This organ work of J.S. Bach dates from his time at Weimar (1708-1717).
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