In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify
for you to enjoy: GSM – Sunday, April 5, 2015
Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed
on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.
Rob
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08:00:58 Joseph Noyon, arr. Gerre Hancock: Christus Vincit
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys w/the St. Thomas Brass
John Scott
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Op. 123
Worcester Cathedral Choir Donald Hunt
Paul Trepte, organ
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Festival Te Deum
Choir of Westminster Abbey, Douglas Guest
Joseph Noyon (1888-1962) was a French organist and composer. Among the many
positions which he held during his lifetime was that of director of the choirs of French
Radio. Stanford composed his popular Easter anthem in 1910. The 11th century religious,
Saint Fulbert of Chartres, wrote the text. Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his Festival Te
Deum for the coronation in 1937.
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8:19:18 William Byrd: Haec dies
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Traditional Dutch, arr. Charles Wood: This joyful Eastertide
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Horatio Parker: Allegretto ~ Sonata in E flat minor
Brian Jones, organ
The Aeolian-Skinner Organ in Trinity Church, Boston
The tune for This Joyful Eastertide dates from 1685. About 100 years earlier William Byrd
wrote his six part motet Haec Dies which translates as “this great day.” American composer
Horatio Parker (1863-1919) was taught by George Whitefield Chadwick and himself taught
Charles Ives and Roger Sessions.
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08:29:49 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Plaudite tympana
Musica Antiqua of Cologne; Gabrieli Consort
Reinhard Goebel; Paul McCreesh
Francis Jackson: Blow ye the trumpet in Zion
Choir of York Minster, Philip Moore
John Scott Whitely, organ
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) was a musician at the Cathedral
in Salzburg. English organist and composer Dr. Francis Jackson (1917-) was
organist of York Minster from 1946 to 1982.
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08:45:17 Herbert Howells: Te Deum and Jubilate (Collegium Regale)
Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, John Scott
Christopher Dearnley, organ
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.
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09:01:52 J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio
Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
Emily Van Evera, soprano; Caroline Trevor, alto;
Charles Daniels, tenor; Peter Kooy, baritone
What we know as the Easter Oratorio began as a cantata for Easter Day
1725. Bach gave it the title Easter Oratorio when he revised the work in
1735. He further revised the oratorio in 1740. This is the version on our
playlist.
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09:43:59 Cesar Franck: Chorale No. 1 in E
Andre Isoir, organ
Cavaille-Coll organin the Cathedral, Lucon, France
Franck wrote three chorales for organ in 1790 which was the last year of
his life. The E major chorale is basically a theme with three variations.
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10:01:21 Hector Berlioz: Te Deum, Op. 22
European Community Youth Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir, Claudio Abbado
Richard Hickox, director of choruses
Francisco Araiza, tenor; Martin Haselbock, organ
This grand composition had its first performance in L’Eglise
Saint-Eustache in 1855. The composer conducted an orchestra and choir
numbering over 900 performers.
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10:51:14 Max Reger: Toccata and Fugue, Op. 59 Nos. 5-6
Andrew Lucas, organ
Mander organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Max Reger wrote a prodigious amount of music for a composer who died at the young age of 43.
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