What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, February 15, 2015

In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify

for you to enjoy: GSM – February 15, 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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08:02:00
Giuseppe Verdi: Lux aeterna ~ Requiem
Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Renee Fleming, soprano

 

Henry Purcell: O Solitude
Nancy Argenta, soprano; Richard Boothby, viola da gamba

 

Anton Bruckner: Gradual: Christus factus est pro nobis
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best

 

American soprano Renee Fleming celebrated her birthday yesterday. O Solitude

s a translation by English poetess Katherine Philip’s of La solitude by the 17th

century French writer Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant. We have two  Bruckner works

on the playlist this morning. This choral miniature shows the  symphonic master’s

genius with small forms.

 

08:21:46
John Rutter: Musica Dei donum
Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham, Rodney Wynkoop
Rebecca Troxler, flute

 

Orlando Gibbons: See, see, the word is incarnate
Stile Antico; Fretwork

 

Henry Purcell, arr. C.H. Trevor: Trumpet Tune
Simon Preston, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ in Westminster Abbey

 

Musica Dei donum is a setting of a 16th century anonymous poem.

English choral ensemble will be on tour from February 21 through March 6

with a concert at Duke University on February 21 at 8 p.m. Simon Preston

plays the familiar Trumpet Tune by Henry Purcell on an organ he knows very

well, namely, the Harrison & Harrison organ in Westminster Abbey, London.

 

08:37:03
Henry Purcell: Jubilate Deo
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown

 

Gabriel Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Diane Loomer

 

Yes, three pieces by Purcell this morning. His setting of the Jubilate Deo

was written for St. Cecilia’s Day festivities in 1694. The late Diane Loomer

founded the British Columbia-based men’s chorus Chor Leoni in 1992.

 

08:52:06
George Frideric Handel: Overture and 2 Choruses ~ Alexander Balus
Choir of New College, Oxford; Choir and Orchestra of the King’s Consort
Robert King

 

We continue our new tradition of airing a chorus or two from the less well-known

Handel oratorios. Alexander Balus premiered in 1747 and is based on 1 Maccabees. 

 

09:03:01
J.S. Bach: Cantata 23, Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Midori Suzuki, soprano; Yoshikazu Mera, countertenor;
Gerd Turk, tenor

 

The distinguished Bach scholar and choral conductor Masaaki Suzuki

is Principal Guest Conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum and Visiting

Professor of Choral Conducting at Yale University.

 

09:20:47
Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

 

Scarlatti’s setting of the 13th century Marian poem is scored for ten voices.

 

09:48:14
Max Reger: Prelude and Fugue in F, Op. 85 No. 3
Bernard Haas, organ
1905 Link organ in the Evangelical Church in Giengen-an-der-Brenz, Germany

 

Max Reger wrote over 150 works for organ. Sadly only a handful are performed today. 

 

10:01:00
Anton Bruckner: Te Deum
Chorus of the German Opera, Berlin; Berlin Philharmonic, Eugen Jochum
Maria Stader, soprano; Sieglinde Wagner, contralto;
Ernst Haefliger, tenor; Peter Lagger, bass

 

Ash Wednesday is this coming Wednesday. With that in mind I scheduled

Bruckner’s dramtic, operatic setting of the ancient hymn of praise Te Deum Laudamus

(We Praise Thee, Oh God).

 

10:24:42
Josef Haydn: Missa Sancti Bernardi de Offida, Heiligmesse
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Joann Lunn, soprano; Sara Mingardo, alto;
Topi Lehtipuu, tenor; Brindley Sherratt, bass

 

Haydn wrote his Heiligmesse for the Capuchin friar Bernard of Offida.

The work was first performed on a Marian feast on September 11, 1796.