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

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

for you to enjoy: GSM – November 15, 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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08:00:58
H. Walford Davies: Psalm 5, “Ponder my words, O Lord”
Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, John Scott
Andrew Lucas, organ

 

Margaret Rizza: Veni Jesu
Gaudete Ensemble, Eamonn Dougan

 

Antonio de Cabezon: Tiento on Qui la Dira
Robert Parkins, organ
1976 Flentrop Organ at Duke University Chapel

 

The way the words of the psalm are fitted with the tune is called pointing.

The late John Scott was a master of this craft as you will hear in this felicitous

rendition of Psalm 5. Margaret Rizza (English, b. 1929) sang professionally for 25

years and taught at London’s Guildhall School of Music; however, she did not begin

composing until 1997. The Flentrop organ in Duke University Chapel incorporates the

best practices of tonal design from Dutch and French organs of the 18th century.

 

08:15:14
Claudio Monteverdi: Stabat virgo Maria
Chanticleer, Joseph Jennings

 

Felix Mendelssohn: And then shall your light break forth ~ Elijah
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw

 

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Andante tranquillo ~ Six Short Preludes and
Postludes, Op. 101
Jennifer Bate, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ of St. James’ Church, Muswell Hill, London

 

San Francisco-based Chanticleer bills itself as an Orchestra of Voices. Mendelssohn’s

Elijah is a major oratorio which is infrequently performed in its entirety. On the other hand

choruses from this magnificent oratorio are performed frequently. English organist Jennifer

Bate is the daughter of another distinguished organist, H.A. Bate.

 

08:28:36
Lennox Berkeley: The Lord is my Shepherd
Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison
Michael Bloss, organ

 

Traditional Galacian: Toda cousa que aa Virgen
Ensemble Alcatraz

 

Vincent Lubeck: Praembulum in G
Leon W. Couch III, organ
1995 Noack organ in Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas

 

English composer Lennox Berkeley studied composition with Nadia Boulanger

in Paris. Ensemble Alcatraz was an early music ensemble active in the 1990s.

Organ-builder Fritz Noack apprenticed with Rudolf von Beckerath.

 

08:45:42
Traditional American spiritual: Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Northwest Boychoir, Joseph Crnko

 

Pierre Villette: Hymne a la Vierge
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O’Donnell

 

Dan Locklair: Phoenix (Processional)
Marilyn Keiser, organ
2007 Casavant organ in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Indianapolis

 

The Northwest Boychoir in Seattle has flourished for more than 40 years.

French composer Pierre Villette (1926-1998) was a student of Maurice Durufle.

North Carolina composer Dan Locklair wrote his Phoenix (Processional) in 1996.

 

09:00:38
J.S. Bach: Cantata 60, “O Ewigkeit, du donnerwort”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Marcel Beekman, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

 

This magnificent but relatively unknown cantata is essentially a duet between

Fear (alto) and Hope (tenor). It was first performed in Leipzig on November 7, 1723.

 

09:18:05
Claudio Merulo: Magnificat del secondo tono
Grupo Vocal Gregor, Dante Andreo
Frederic Munoz, organ

 

Italian composer Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) was an exponent of the Venetian

poly-choral style. Poly-choral literally means “many choirs”.

 

09:33:45
Carl Maria von Weber: Mass No. 2 in G, Op. 76
Vancouver Chamber Choir; CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn
Henriette Schellenberg, soprano; Laverne G’Froerer, mezzo-soprano;
Keith Boldt, tenor; George Roberts, baritone

 

German composer Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786-1826) was one of those

brilliant composers who was just as comfortable writing sacred music as he was writing operas.

You can place him in the vanguard of the Romantic composers.

 

10:00:37
Arvo Part: Berliner Messe
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Tallin Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste

 

Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste (1953-) has a strong background in choral

conducting. It was he who took the Ellerhein Chamber Choir and made it into

a full-time professional ensemble known as the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber

Choir.

 

10:26:57
Manuel Arenzana: Grand Mass in D
Mexico City Chorus and Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Jaurez Echenique
Irasema Terrazas, soprano; Gabriela Thierry, mezzo-soprano;
Flavio Becerra, tenor; Jorge Cozatl, bass; Ivan Juarez, bass

 

Mexican baroque composer Manuel Arenzana was Director of Music at the Cathedral

of San Francisco in Puebla, Mexico from 1792 to 1821.