A Palm Sunday Hosanna

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, host Stan Schmidt goes back into his archives for a program that was aired on Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011. 

Along with the two very popular motets by Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Weelkes, you will hear the following:

• “Hosanna to the Song of David,” performed by the Voices of Ascension and the Trinity College Choir, Cambridge
• The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir will grace the program with the Sanctus and the Crucifixus from Bach’s B Minor Mass
• Barbara Hendricks offers the spiritual “Ride on King Jesus”
• The Augsburg Choir with Leland Sateren sings “Jerusalem” by Egil Hovland and “Not My Will, But Thine” by Mark Shepperd
• “Osanna” from August Söderman’s “Mass” with the Swedish Radio Choir
• Daniel Gawthrop’s wonderful Lenten gem “Watch with Me,” performed by the Utah State University Singers

The program continues with:

• “Song of Divine Love” by Grayston Ives
• Mozart’s Ave verum corpus with Ricardo Muti leading the Swedish Radio and Stockholm Chamber Choir
• “The Lord’s Prayer” by William Wiedrich, sung by the University of South Florida
• One of the Tenebrae Responsories by Healey Willan
• A gripping arrangement by Moses Hogan of the spiritual “He Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word,” sung by Male Soprano Darryl Taylor
• The famous “Crucifixus” by Antonio Lotti, led by Paul Halley
• “Who Has Struck You Thus,” one of the chorales from J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion offered by the Netherlands Bach Society. 

All in all a very thoughtful look at the great ride into Jerusalem and the Passion of Christ.

For a look at the CDs used and a complete list of music heard, go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 1717.