What is on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, May 13, 2012

Most of the selections in the first hour were chosen by listeners in honor of their mothers both living and departed.
I selected the Beethoven Mass in C as a fitting and radiant tribute to mothers
everywhere. Happy Mothers Day!

08:00:20
Stuart Stotts, arr. J. David Moore: Music in My Mother’s House
Women’s Voices Chorus, Mary Lycan

08:05:50
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria
Turtle Creek Chorale, Timothy Seelig

08:13:15
Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
Polyphony, Stephen Layton

08:21:01
Thomas A. Dorsey: Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Diane Loomer

08:27:21
Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Stimme der Nacht
Richard Brasier, organ

08:32:38
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips

08:38:56
Franz Schubert: Ave Maria, D. 839
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

08:45:34
John Rutter: The Lord bless you and keep you
Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter

08:49:45
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 549
Gerhard Weinberger, organ
Gottfried Silbermann organ, Dom St. Marien, Freiberg

08:57:53
J.S. Bach: Missa brevis in F, BWV 233
Dresden Choir of the Cross; Dresden Philharmonic, Martin Flamig
Renate Krahmer, soprano; Annelies Burmeister, alto;
Peter Schreier, tenor; Theo Adam, bass

09:27:45
Jacobus Gallus: Missa super “Sancta Maria”
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel

09:52:12
Johannes Brahms: How lovely is thy dwelling place ~ A German Requiem
Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini

10:00:06
Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C, Op. 86
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Shaw
Henriette Schellenberg, soprano; Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano;
Jon Humphrey, tenor; Myron Myers, bass

10:49:46
Robert Shafer: Acclamation and Song
Haig Mardirosian, organ
the Dobson organ at Sykes Chapel, University of Tampa, Fla.