What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, August 9, 2015

This is Cinema Classics Weekend on The Classical Station. I have programmed several selections

which have been heard in the movies over the years.

 

08:00:37
J.S. Bach: Erbarme dich ~ St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Heard in the movie “The Gospel According to St. Matthew”

 

W.A. Mozart: Lacrimosa ~ Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Vienna Philharmonic & State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
Heard in the film “Amadeus”

 

Gabriel Faure: In paradisum ~ Requiem, Op. 48
Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Featured in “28 Days” (2002), “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (2000) and “The Thin Red Line” (1998).

 

08:16:11
J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir David Willcocks
Heard in the movie “Meet the Parents”

 

Gyorgy Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown
Heard in Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001, a Space Odyssey”

 

08:31:46
Franz Schubert: Ave Maria, D. 839
London Symphony Orchestra, Ion Marin
Cheryl Studer, soprano
Heard in “Needful Things” (1993), “Gods and Monsters” (1998), and “Chicken Run” (2000)

 

Ennio Morricone: On Earth as it is in Heaven ~ The Mission
Crouch Festival Chorus with the City of Prague Philharmonic, David Temple
Heard in the 1986 movie “The Mission” starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy  Irons

 

08:42:58
Dominique Phinot: Confitebor tibi, Domine
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice

Stephen Rice founded the Brabant Ensemble in 1998. The group has focused on relatively

unknown choral music of the 16th century.

 

George Frideric Handel: Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem No. 1)
Choir of Westminster Abbey; English Concert, Simon Preston
Heard in the 1994 movie “The Madness of King George”

 

08:56:58
J.S. Bach: Cantata 101, “Nimm von uns Herr, du treuer Gott”
Bach Collegium Japan; Concerto Palatino, Masaaki Suzuki
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Robin Blaze, countertenor;
Gerd Turk, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone

The German translates as “Take from us, Lord, Thou faithful God”. This cantata was first

performed on August 13, 1724 in Leipzig.

 

09:25:14
George Frideric Handel: My heart is inditing (Coronation Anthem No. 4)
Academy & Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

German-born English composer Handel wrote four coronation anthems for the crowning of

King George II and Queen Caroline in 1727.

 

09:38:12
Robert Schumann: Six Etudes in the form of a Canon, Op. 56
Phillippe Lefebvre, organ
1845 Nicolas-Antoine Lété Organ in the Abbey of Saint-Michel de Nantua

 

Schumann wrote his Etudes for organ or pedal piano. French composer Claude Debussy

later transcribed the works for two pianos.

 

09:57:35
W.A. Mozart: Mass No. 14 in C, K. 317 “Coronation”
Vienna Boys’ Choir; Chorus Viennensis; Vienna Philharmonic
Uwe Christian Harrer
Soloists of the Vienna Boys’ Choir;
Peter Jelosits, tenor; Gerhard Eder, bass

 

Mozart’s Coronation Mass was first performed in Salzburg Cathedral on Easter Day in 1779.

The sub-title probably comes from the use of this mass at the coronation of Emperor Leopold II

or his successor Emperor Franz.

 

10:24:52
Matthaeus Pipelare: Missa “Lhomme arme”
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel

 

Belgian conductor Paul van Nevel founded the Huelgas Ensemble in 1971.