What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, January 4, 2015

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

for you to enjoy: GSM – January 4, 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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07:59:32
Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger: Omnes de Saba
St. Clement’s Choir, Philadelphia, Peter Richard Conte

 

Peter Cornelius: The Three Kings
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Robert Rice, baritone

 

Gregorian chant: Benedicamus trope: Congaudeant catholici

Anonymous 4

 

The Feast of the Epiphany is Tuesday, January 6. Music for Three Kings Day

as it is called in many parts of the world includes Rheinberger’s suave setting of

All They from Saba Came and Cornelius’ The Three Kings. Anonymous 4 sings a

medieval chant for St. James from the Codex Calixtinus.

 

08:09:51
Felix Mendelssohn: Laudate pueri, Op. 39 No. 2
Chamber Choir of Europe, Nicol Matt

 

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Beatus Laurentius
The Studio of Ancient Music of Montreal, Christopher Jackson

 

Leo Sowerby: Picardy (from Six Meditations on Communion Hymns)
Robert Parris, organ
1927 E.M. Skinner organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rochester, NY

 

Mendelssohn’s setting of Laudate Pueri is scored for women’s voices. Palestrina’s

works comprise some 32 volumes in the Breitkopf edition. The hymn-tune Picardy

is widely used in the Episcopal Church with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.

 

08:28:59
Sarum Psalmodie: A solis ortus cardine
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips

 

Cesar Franck: Panis angelicus
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Boys’ Choir, Helmuth Froschauer
Placido Domingo, tenor

 

Benjamin Britten: Te Deum in C
Holst Singers, Stephen Layton
Louis Keily, soprano

 

This version of the ancient hymn From the rising of the sun was found in a

collection at Salisbury Cathedral. Franck’s setting of Food of the Angels is one

of his most popular choral compositions. Britten wrote his Te Deum in C with the

capabilities of average parish choirs in mind. The organ part on the other hand is

demanding.

 

08:48:31
Irish traditional, arr. John Rutter: Be thou my vision
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Thelma Owen, harp

 

Willliam Boyce: Voluntary
Anton Guggemos, organ
Schmid organ of the Wieskirche, Steingaden, Germany
 

English composer John Rutter has a knack for creating wonderful arrangements

of familiar melodies. Anton Guggemos has been organist of the Church of Wieskirche

for over 40 years.

 

08:59:17
J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Part Five
Bach Choir of Bethlehem; Bach Festival Orchestra, Greg Funfgeld
Tamara Matthews, soprano; Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano;
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor; Christopheren Nomura, baritone

 

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem was founded by John Frederick Wolle in 1898.

It gave the first American performance of Bach’s B minor Mass in 1900.

 

09:24:32
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Salve Regina
Montreal Sinfonietta, Charles Dutoit
June Anderson, soprano; Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano

 

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi born this day in 1710. While he gained fame

as an opera composer, he is perhaps better known these days for his sacred

music, in particular his setting of the 13th century Marian poem Stabat Mater.

 

09:40:49
J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata No. 2 in C minor, BWV 526
Kevin Bowyer, organ
1962 Marcussen organ in Sct. Hans Kirke, Odense 
 

Playing Bach’s six trio sonatas for organ is a lot like walking a

musical tight rope. There is simply no margin for error. Organist Kevin

Bowyer makes it all sound so effortless, simple and sublimely musical.

 

09:56:09
Sir Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Jill Gomez, soprano; Helen Watts, contralto;
Kenneth Woollam, tenor; John Shirley-Quirk, baritone

 

Sir Michael Tippett was profoundly affected by Kristallnacht. A Child

of Our Time was his reaction to that event as well as several others.

Tippett wrote both the music and the libretto between 1939-1941.