What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, August 19, 2012

The featured work this week is Arthur Honegger’s King David. Composed in
1921 King David comprises 27 movements tracing the life of David from
shepherd boy to powerful king.

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Rob Kennedy
Great Sacred Music
The Classical Station
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07:59:46
Charles Wood: Hail, gladdening Light
Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill

08:04:13
Karol Szymanowski: Litany to the Virgin Mary, Op. 59
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Elzbieta Szmytka, soprano

08:13:29
Jean-Baptiste Lully: De profundis
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet
Veronique Gens, soprano; Brigitte Vinson,
soprano; Herve Lamy, tenor; Jean-Paul
Fouchecourt, tenor; Peter Harvey, bass

08:30:15
J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude on “Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr”, BWV 664
Janette Fishell, organ
played on the C.B. Fisk organ, First Presbyterian Church, New Bern, NC

08:37:28
Arvo Part: Da pacem Domine
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier

08:44:20
Healey Willan: Missa brevis No. 8 in D minor
The Choirs of the Church of St. Mary Madgalene, Toronto, Robert Hunter Bell

08:51:49
Dan Locklair: Phoenix (Processional)
William J. Weisser, organ
Aeolian-Skinner/Schoenstein organ in the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia

08:59:28
J.S. Bach: Cantata 199, “Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut”
Orchestra of Emanuel Music, Craig Smith
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano

09:28:05
Arthur Honegger: King David
Frankfurter Kantorei; Collegium musicum Freiburg, Wolfgang Schafer
Pamela Coburn, soprano; Cornelia Kallisch, alto;
Hans Peter Blochwitz, tenor; Wolfgang Reichmann, narrator;
Lola Muthel, The Witch of Endor