What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, May 10, 2015

08:02:00

Stuart Stotts, arr. J. David Moore: Music in My Mother’s House
Women’s Voices Chorus, Mary Lycan

 

George Frideric Handel: Salve Regina
English Concert, Harry Bicket
Lucy Crowe, soprano

 

J.S. Bach arr. Charles Gounod: Ave Maria
Orchestra and Chorus of the Toulouse Capitole, Michel Plasson
Roberto Alagna, tenor

 

Music in My Mother’s House brings back cherished memories of my grandparents

playing the piano and saxophone of a Sunday evening. Salve Regina dates from

Handel’s time in Italy and was first performed in 1707 in the Marchese di Cerveteri’s

private chapel. Charles Gounod (1818-1893) wrote over twelve operas and six oratorios.

But like Johann Pachelbel who is remembered solely for his Canon in D, Gounod’s reputation rests on an
Ave Maria which he wrote based on a prelude of Johann Sebastian Bach.

 

08:23:02

 

Tomas Luis de Victoria: Alma Redemptoris Mater
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

 

Cesar Franck: Panis angelicus
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Wandsworth Boys’ Choir, Kurt Herbert Adler
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

 

Leon Boellmann: Priere a Notre-Dame ~ Suite gothique
Daniel Chorzempa, organ
Organ of the Cadets’ Chapel, West Point

 

Tomas Luis de Victoria spent many years in Rome where he succeeded
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina as  master of music of the Collegium
Germanicum. Franck’s setting of Food of the Angels is one
of his most popular choral compositions. Leon Boellman (1862-97)

wrote a small number of organ compositions of which Suite Gothique is the best known.

 

08:39:33

 

Sir Arnold Bax: Mater, ora Filium
The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood

 

Alfred Hollins: Concert Rondo
Jonathan Bielby, organ
Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall, Yorkshire, England

 

Mater, ora filium by English composer Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was apparently

inspired by a performance of William Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices. Alfred Hollins (1865–1942)

was blind from birth. As a concert organist he toured the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

 

09:03:34

 

J.S. Bach: Cantata 87, “Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Robin Blaze, countertenor;
Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone

 

The German translates as “Hitherto have you asked nothing in my Name”. The concluding chorale

uses the familiar tune of Jesu Meine Freude.

 

09:25:39

 

Christian Friedrich Ruppe: Easter Cantata
Ensemble Bouzignac; Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz

 

Little is known about German violinist, keyboard player and composer Christian Friedrich Ruppe (1771-1834). 

 

09:48:49

 

W.A. Mozart: Church Sonata in C, K. 263
Amsterdam Mozart Players
Peter Hurford, organ

1976 K. Blank organ at Bethlehemkerk, Papendrecht, Holland

 

Mozart’s seventeen Church Sonatas date from 1772-1780 and were written for use

during the Mass between the Epistle and Gospel.

 

09:55:49

 

Amy Beach: Grand Mass in E flat
Michael May Festival Chorus, Michael May
Elaine Bunse, soprano; Barbara Schramm, mezzo-soprano;
Paul Rogers, tenor; Leonard Jay Gould, bass;
Daniel Beckwith, organ

 

Amy Beach (1867-1944) was the first American female composer of large scale musical compositions.