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 – April 28, 2019 https://spoti.fi/2Wglg6D
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
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Peter Aston: Alleluya Psallat
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt
Traditional Dutch, arr. Charles Wood: This joyful Eastertide
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Malcolm Singer: Psalm 117
The Zemel Choir, Robert Max
English composer Peter Aston (1938-2013) is best known for his liturgical compositions. The tune for “This Joyful Eastertide” dates from 1685. Malcolm Singer is Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London.
Felix Mendelssohn: Gloria
Amadeus Choir; Wurttemberg Philharmonic, Nicol Matt
Nathalie Karl, soprano; Barbara Werner, alto;
Robert Morvai, tenor; Manfred Bittner, bass
Gregorian chant: Selected Easter chants
Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos
It is no secret that Felix Mendelssohn admired the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. You will hear the great German master’s influence in musical style and form throughout most of Mendelssohn’s sacred choral works. The first CD entitled Chant by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos sold 6 million copies back in the 90s.
Commentary: Nigel Potts
John Cook: Fanfare
Nigel Potts, organ
The Schoenstein Organ of St. Paul’s Parish, Washington, DC.
John Rutter: O clap your hands
Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter
Nigel Potts is Director of Music and Organist of Grace Cathedral, Charleston, South Carolina. English composer John Rutter set Psalm 47 for SATB choir with organ or orchestral accompaniment. This anthem was published in 1974.
John Tomkins: Cantate Domino
Quire Cleveland, Ross W. Duffin
Herbert Howells: Te Deum and Jubilate (Collegium Regale)
Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, John Scott
Christopher Dearnley, organ
Quire Cleveland is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and breathing new life into nine centuries of extraordinary choral music. English composer Herbert Howells wrote his setting of the morning canticles entitled Collegium Regale for King’s College, Cambridge in 1945 for his friend Boris Ord.
J.S. Bach: Cantata 67, “Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
The German translates as “Hold in remembrance Jesus Christ”. Bach continues
the celebratory mood of Easter with this short cantata first performed in Leipzig on April 16, 1724. The fourth movement is one of those magical moments in which Bach weaves two contrasting themes and moods. The chorus and orchestra express the confusion and excitement at Jesus’ resurrection. Bach contrasts that with the tranquillity of Jesus’ calm utterance of “Peace be with you.”
Zoltan Kodaly: Laudes organi
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O’Donnell
Andrew Reid, organ
Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly wrote Laudes Organi (In Praise of Organs) for the 1966 AGO Convention in Atlanta. It is based on a twelfth century manuscript found in the Engelberg Monastery, Switzerland.
J.S. Bach: Concerto in C, BWV 594
Daniel Chorzempa, organ
1761 Silbermann organ in the Domstiftkirche, Arlesheim
This is Bach’s arrangement of the Violin Concerto in D major, RV 208, by Antonio Vivaldi.
Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F minor
New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
Heather Harper, soprano; Anna Reynolds, contralto
Robert Tear, tenor; Marius Rintzler, bass
Written in 1867-68, the Mass No. 3 in F minor was finally premiered in 1872. Bruckner subsequently made several revisions to it. The work was highly thought of by Franz Liszt.
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Montreal Symphony Orchestra (1961-67); Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1962-1978); the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (1981-); and Music Director of the New York Philharmonic (1978-91).
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