What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, April 19, 2015

In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify

for you to enjoy: GSM – Sunday, April 19, 2015

Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed

on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.

 

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08:02:00

Arvo Part: Veni creator
Theatre of Voices; Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ

 

Hieronymus Praetorius: Laudate Domino
Quire Cleveland, Ross W. Duffin

 

Louis Vierne: Feux follets, Op. 53 No. 4 (from Pieces de fantaisie)
Olivier Latry, organ
1733 Thierry/1788 F.H. Cliquot/1867 Cavaillée-Coll/1959 Hermann/1960

Boisseau/1992 Boisseau-Emeriau-Giroud-Synaptel Organ of Notre Dame

Cathedral, Paris

 

Estonian composer Arvo Part’s Pentecost hymn “Veni Creator” dates from 2006.

North German composer Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629) spanned the late

Renaissance and early Barqoue periods of music. French organist Olivier Latry

is the Titular Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral.

 

08:15:50

 

Anonymous: Sanctus
Hilliard Ensemble
Jan Garbarek, saxophone

 

Flor Peeters: The Lord’s Prayer
Atlanta Sacred Chorale, Eric Nelson
Trey Clegg, organ

 

Orlando Gibbons: Magnificat (2nd Service)
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly

 

The combination of saxophone, medieval music and the sumptuous

acoustics of the monastery of Propstei St. Gerold in Austria make for

some spell-binding music.  Flor Peeters (1903-1986) was a Belgian

organist and teacher. English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

was a chorister at King’s College where his older brother Edward was

master of the choir.

 

08:30:48

 

Alec Wyton: The Vision of Isaiah
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, Owen Burdick

 

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: O for a closer walk with God
Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson

 

Herbert Howells: Saraband (for the morning of Easter)
Robert Benjamin Dobey, organ
Roosevelt-Schantz organ, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Syracuse, NY

 

Dr. Alec Wyton was a distinguished church musician. Owen Burdick’s interview with

Dr. Wyton is worth a read.   Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was educated

at Queens College, Cambridge. Hilborne Roosevelt (1849-1886) founded Roosevelt Pipe

Organ Builders with his brother Frank. The firm built many grand instruments in the latter

part of the 19th century.

 

08:48:54

 

Margaret Rizza: Ave Maria
Gaudete Ensemble, Eamonn Dougan

 

Franz Biebl: Ave Maria
Turtle Creek Chorale, Timothy Seelig

 

British composer Margaret Rizza (1929-) is highly regarded for her

choral compositions. Franz Biebl (1906-2001) wrote his Ave Maria for

double male chorus, specifically for a firemen’s choir.

 

09:01:48

 

J.S. Bach: Cantata 104, “Du hirte Israel, hore”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Marjon Strijk, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

 

The German translates as “Hear, thou Shepherd of Israel”. This cantata

was written for the Second Sunday of Easter. Simon Crouch’s commentary

is worth a read. 

 

09:20:31

Frantisek Ignac Tuma: Lytaniae Lauretanae
Prague Madrigalists, Pavel Baxa

 

Late Baroque Czech composer František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774)

wrote 65 masses, 29 psalm settings and 5 settings of the Stabat Mater as

well as this Lauretanian Litany.

 

09:35:23

John Tavener: Funeral Canticle
Academy of Ancient Music Choir and Orchestra, Paul Goodwin
George Mosley, baritone

 

A Guide to John Tavener’s Music in The Guardian covers the output of this important 20th century English composer. 

 

10:01:08

 

Franz Schubert: Mass in E flat, D. 950
Vienna Boys’ Choir; Chorus Viennensis; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bruno Weil
Benjamin Schmidinger, soprano; Albin Lenzer, alto;
Jorg Hering, tenor; Kurt Azesberger, tenor; Harry van der Kamp, bass

 

The Mass in E flat was one of the last works Schubert wrote before he died in

November 1828. Listen for the influences of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in this

masterpiece.

 

10:50:30

J.S. Bach: Fantasie and Trio on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”
Jean Guillou, organ
Kleuker-Steinmeyer organ of the Tonhalle, Zurich

 

French organist Jean Guillou celebrated his 85th birthday on April 18, 2015. He is

highly-regarded for his improvisations.