What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, January 18, 2015

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

for you to enjoy: GSM – January 18, 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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08:02:00
H. Walford Davies: Psalm 121 and Requiem aeternam
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown

 

Alexander Grechaninov: In Thy Kingdom, Op. 58 No. 3
Holst Singers, Stephen Layton
James Bowman, counter-tenor

 

Walford Davies was Organist at London’s Temple Church where his assistant

was none other than Leopold Stokowski. Stephen Layton succeeded Richard

Marlow as Director of Music of Trinity College, Cambridge in 2006.

 

08:19:34
David Hill: Dominus illuminatio
Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill

 

Franz Schubert: Offertorium “Totus in corde”, D. 136
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Helen Donath, soprano; Eduard Brunner, clarinet

 

Arvo Part: Peace upon you, Jerusalem
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier

 

David Hill succeeded Sir David Willcocks as Director of London’s Bach Choir.

Schubert composed his setting of Totus in corde when he was eighteen years old.

His gift for writing gorgeous melodies is readily apparent. Ars Nova Copenhagen was

founded in 1979 and is widely considered to be one of Europe’s finest vocal ensembles.

 

08:34:59
George Frideric Handel: Gird on thy sword, thou man of might ~ Saul
RIAS Chamber Choir; Concerto Cologne, Rene Jacobs

 

John Rutter: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter

 

Last week I began a new feature of our first hour of Great Sacred Music, namely, including

a chorus from one of Handel’s lesser known oratorios. Gird on thy sword is the final chorus

from Saul. I will lift up mine eyes is a setting of Psalm 121 which John Rutter wrote in 1976.

 

08:49:11
Gabriel Fauré: Messe basse
English Voices, Ross Pople
Angharad Gruffydd-Jones, soprano; Stephen Farr, organ

 

A Messe Basse or Low Mass has no setting of the Gloria and Credo. Faure

wrote this composition in 1881 whilst on vacation in Normandy.

 

09:01:05
J.S. Bach: Cantata 3, “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Dorothee Mields, soprano; Pascal Bertin, countertenor;
Gerd Turk, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone

 

“Ah God, how many heart pains” is one translation of the German. This cantata

was written for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany. 

 

09:25:12
Anton Bruckner: Te Deum WAB 45
Westminster Choir; New York Philharmonic, Bruno Walter
Frances Yeend, soprano; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano;
David Lloyd, tenor; Mack Harrel, baritone

 

Like Faure’s Messe Basse which we heard earlier Bruckner’s Te Deum was written

in 1881 which was also when he was finishing his Sixth Symphony.

 

09:46:27
César Franck: Pièce Héroïque
Jan Kraybill, organ
2011 Casavant organ in the Kaufman Center for Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

Casavant Freres of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec has been building organs since 1879. 

 

09:58:52
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Missa Salisburgensis
Musica Antiqua of Cologne; Gabrieli Consort & Players
Reinhard Goebel; Paul McCreesh

 

Musicologists think that Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber wrote his Missa Salisburgensis

or the 1100 anniversary celebrations of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, Austria in 1882.

The work is scored for 53 voice parts and makes maximum use of the four musicians’

galleries in the cathedral as well as choir positions in the front and back of the nave.