What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, February 22, 2015

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

for you to enjoy: GSM – February 22, 2015

Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed

on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.

 

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08:02:41
H. Walford Davies: Psalm 130, “Out of the deep”
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Philip Ledger
Francis Grier, organ

 

Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Stephen Cleobury
Saul Quirke, treble

 

J.S. Bach: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig
Wilhelm Krumbach, organ

 

Sir Henry Walford Davies was Master of the King’s Music from 1934-1941.

Allegri’s setting of the penitential psalm 51 features several soaring high C’s.

This Bach chorale prelude is one of works discovered by Professor Krumbach

at Yale University in 1982. The University had acquired the manuscripts from

Lowell Mason in 1852.

 

08:22:28
Thomas Tallis: Miserere nostri
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips

 

Pierre Villette: Jesu, dulcis memoria
BBC Singers, Stephen Jackson

 

Jean-Baptiste Lully: O dulcissime Domine
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet

 

Thomas Tallis’ motet Miserere nostri is scored for seven parts. Listen to the

canonic writing which displays Tallis’ immense skill in writing counterpoint. French

composer Pierre Villette studied with Maurice Durufle. Italian-born French composer

Jean-Baptiste Lully spent most of his professional life working for King Louis XIV.

 

08:35:44
George Frideric Handel: Let our glad songs to Heaven ascend ~ Deborah
The King’s Consort, Robert King

 

J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
John Longhurst, organ
1948 Aeolian Skinner organ in the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Handel’s oratorio Deborah uses a libretto based on chapters 4 & 5 of the Book

of Judges in which the prophetess Deborah fortells the death of the Canaanite

commander by a woman. John Longhurst was Tabernacle organist from 1977-2007.

 

08:47:54
Robert White: Portio mea
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips

 

Arvo Part: Da pacem Domine
Hilliard Ensemble

 

16th century English composer Robert White was the son-in-law of Christopher

Tye. Da pacem Domine was commissioned by Jordi Savall in 2005.

 

09:02:26
J.S. Bach: Motet No. 3: “Jesu, meine Freude”, BWV 227
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins

 

The eleven movement motet “Jesu, meine freude” is the most complex of the six

motets which Bach wrote.
 

09:25:44
Ildebrando Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson

 

Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) wrote his Requiem in 1922-23.

He was a contemporary of Ottorino Respighi whom he succeeded as the Director

of the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome.

 

09:56:13
Alexandre Guilmant: Paraphrase on “See the conqu’ring hero comes”
Jonathan Bielby, organ
1860 Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall, England

 

The Henry Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall was built for an exhibition hall

in Newport, South Wales in 1860. It was moved to Huddersfield Town Hall. The

instrument was was rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1980.

 

10:01:58
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat mater
Montreal Sinfonietta, Charles Dutoit
June Anderson, soprano; Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano

 

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) was another one of those musical

geniuses who died at far too young an age. He was primarily known as a composer

of comic operas. But he also wrote church music which was stood the test of time.

His setting of the 13th century meditation Stabat Mater by Jacoponus is still widely performed.

 

10:41:05
Healey Willan: Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue
Patrick Wedd, organ
1914/1995 Casavant Organ of the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal

 

Dr. Willan’s Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue is widely considered to be his finest organ composition.