Play List for Great Sacred Music, Sunday, December 11, 2011

Great Sacred Music is 4 hours this Sunday! It’s the final day of WCPE’s December Membership Drive. Anyway, lots of shortish selections as a result.

The show airs Sunday mornings from 8-11 a.m. eastern on 89.7 fm in Central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Rob

 

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08:04:19a

Gordon Slater: Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee

Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison

Paul Halley, organ

 

08:13:03a

Don Carlo Gesualdo: Ave dulcissima Maria

Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Alastair Ross, organ

 

08:22:41a

Eugene Gigout: Grand Choeur dialogue

David Arcus, organ

 

08:31:13a

Orlande de Lassus: Lauda anima mea

Currende, Erick van Nevel

 

08:36:45a

Cesar Franck: Panis angelicus

Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison

Matthew Larkin, organ

 

08:43:50a

W.H. Monk, arr. Robert Prizeman: Abide With Me

Libera, Robert Prizeman

 

08:51:14a

John Rutter: Look at the world

Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter

 

08:59:31a

Benjamin Britten: A hymn to the Virgin

Holst Singers, Stephen Layton

Ruth Morris, soprano; Hatty Webb, alto; William Lee, tenor; Christopher Head, bass

 

09:05:48a

J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Jesu bleibet meine Freude)

Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink

Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto; Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

from Cantata 147, “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” (Heart and Voice and Deed and Life)

 

09:12:59a

Thomas A. Dorsey: Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Diane Loomer

 

09:20:29a

Harold Darke: In the bleak midwinter

Choir and Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge, John Rutter

Darke’s setting of this 1872 poem by Christina Rossetti

 

09:27:47a

Ignacio de Jerusalem: Invitatorio y Salmo 94 ~ Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe

Chanticleer, with the Chanticleer Sinfonia, Joseph Jennings

 

09:36:53a

Carson Cooman: Be Present, Holy Trinity

Royal Holloway Choir, University of London, Rupert Gough

Samuel Rathbone, organ

 

09:45:56a

Morten Lauridsen: Ave Maria

Polyphony, Stephen Layton

 

09:55:36a

George Frideric Handel: Immortal Lord of Earth and Skies ~ Deborah

The King’s Consort, Robert King

 

10:04:20a

Traditional French: Quelle est cette odeur agreable

Chor Leoni, Diane Loomer

 

10:11:56a

W.A. Mozart: Gloria ~ Mass No. 14 in C, K. 317 “Coronation”

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Eugen Jochum

Edda Moser, soprano; Julia Hamari, mezzo-soprano; Nicolai Gedda, tenor; Dietrich

Fischer-Dieskau, baritone

 

10:20:19a

Jehan Alain: Litanies

Eric Lebrun, organ

 

10:29:04a

Robert Lowry: Shall We Gather at the River

Anonymous 4

 

10:38:01a

J.S. Bach: Opening chorus ~ Cantata 80, “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”

Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink

Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto; Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

 

10:47:19a

Carson Cooman: Adam lay ybounden

Royal Holloway Choir, University of London, Rupert Gough

Samuel Rathbone, organ

 

10:53:11a

John Rutter: O Lord, thou hast searched me out

Cambridge Singers; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Rutter

 

11:03:27a

George Frideric Handel: Messiah, Lift up your heads, O ye gates

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury

Lynne Dawson, soprano; Hillary Summers, alto; John Mark Ainsley, tenor; Alastair Miles, 

 

bass

 

11:10:26a

Eric Whitacre: i thank you God for most this amazing day

Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison

 

11:20:47a

W.A. Mozart: Benedictus ~ Requiem in D minor, K. 626

English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Barbara Bonney, soprano; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Hans Peter Blochwitz, 

 

tenor; Willard White, baritone

 

11:29:57a

Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Alway

Tolzer Knabenchor with period instrument ensemble, Gustav Leonhardt

David Cordier, alto; John Elwes, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass

 

11:42:07a

Henry Balfour Gardiner: Evening Hymn

Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Richard Marlow

 

11:50:46a

J.S. Bach: Kyrie eleison ~ Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, Robert Shaw

Sylvia McNair, soprano; Delores Ziegler, soprano; Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano;

John Aler, tenor; William Stone, baritone; Thomas Paul, bass

 

11:58:09a

Louis Vierne: Toccata

John Rose, organ

The Austin Organ at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford, Conn.