What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, August 7, 2016

I post these playlists weekly with the hope that you might find them useful
as you plan your music lists. All of my playlists are on Spotify for you to
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GSM – August 7, 2016 https://goo.gl/dTeCGk

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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John Rutter: Pie Jesu ~ Requiem
Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter
Caroline Ashton and Donna Deam, soprano

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Tota pulchra es & Vulnerasti cor meum
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter

Nicolas Gombert: Tulerunt Dominum meum
The Studio of Ancient Music of Montreal, Christopher Jackson

Several composers have written hauntingly beautiful melodies for the Pie Jesu section of the Roman Catholic Requiem liturgy. John Rutter’s setting is at the top of my list. We continue our survey of the works of Palestrina with two motets. The first is a setting of a prayer from the Second Vespers for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The second piece is from the Song of Songs (1584). Franco-Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert (1495-1560) fits in historically between Josquin des Prez and Palestrina.

Francis Poulenc: Four Little Prayers of St. Francis of Assisi
Chanticleer

John Rutter: Te Deum
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Wallace Collection, Stephen Cleobury

French composer Francis Poulenc wrote his Four Little Prayers of St. Francis of Assisi in 1948 at the request of his nephew, Brother Jerome Poulenc. They are dedicated to the Friars Minor of Champfleury. English composer John Rutter composed his Te Deum in 1988 for the Guild of Church Musicians. One of the requirements for the work was that it be accessible and straightforward, as the rehearsal time for its first performance at a service of thanksgiving in Canterbury Cathedral was apparently rather limited.

Traditional: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg

John Tavener: Eternity’s Sunrise
Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin
Patricia Rozario, soprano

Alexandre Guilmant: Marche religieuse
Peter Richard Conte, organ
Organ in Wanamaker’s (Macy’s), Philadelphia

18th century pastor and hymnist Robert Robinson wrote the text for Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. The hymn is commonly sung to the tune Nettleton. English composer John Tavener wrote Eternity’s Sunrise in 1997. American organist Peter Richard Conte has been Grand Court Organist at Wanamaker’s since 1989.

J.S. Bach: Cantata 179, “Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Miah Persson, soprano; Robin Blaze, countertenor;
Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone

The German translates as “See to it that thy fear of God be not hypocrisy”. The cantata was first performed in Leipzig 293 years ago on August 8.

John Blow: The glorious day is come
Parley of Instruments; Playford Consort
Peter Holman and Richard Wistreich
Suzie Le Blanc, soprano; Michael Chance, counter-tenor;
Joseph Cornwell, tenor; Jozic Koc, bass

English composer John Blow wrote The glorious day is come as an Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, 22 November, 1691.

Johann Ludwig Krebs: Prelude and Fugue in C
Peter Sykes, organ
The restored Tannenberg Organ (1799-1800) at Old Salem, North Carolina

UNC-TV has a video describing the restoration of this important historic early American pipe organ. http://video.unctv.org/video/2365066681/

Louis Vierne: Messe solennelle, Op 16
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys; St. Thomas Brass, John Scott
Jeremy Bruns, organ

From the Carus site: “The Messe solennelle op. 16 for mixed choir and two organs by Louis Vierne was composed in 1899. At its world premiere in St. Sulpice in December 1901 Charles-Marie Widor played the main organ and Vierne the choir organ.”

Daniel de Lange: Requiem
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uve Gronostay

Dutch composer Daniël de Lange (1841-1918) wrote his Requiem in 1868. de Lange made his living as a composer, teacher and conductor. He introduced the orchestral music of Anton Bruckner to Dutch audiences.