What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, November 30, 2014

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

for you to enjoy: GSM – November 30, 2014

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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08:02:20
Leo Sowerby: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, Larry King
Larry King, organ

 

William Billings: O praise the Lord of Heaven
His Majestie’s Clerkes, Paul Hillier

 

Carson Cooman: Set me as a Seal
Cambridge Consonance, Jeffrey Grossman

 

Dr. Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) was considered by most Episcopal church

musicians to be the unofficial Dean of Church Music. William Billings
(1746–1800) was regarded as our first American church music composer.

The torch has been passed to Boston composer Carson Cooman (1982-)

who already has written church music by the hundreds.

 

08:15:33
Rene Clausen: Prayer
Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy

 

Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, John Scott

 

Amy Beach: Prelude on an Old Folk Tune
Christa Rakich, organ
1933 Kilgen organ in St. Justin Church, Hartford, CT

 

Rene Clausen (1953-) is Professor of Music at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.

Randall Thompson’s most popular work Alleluia was commissioned by Serge Koussevitsky

for the opening of the Berkshire Music Center in 1940.  Christa Rakich is Artist-in-Residence

at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brookline, Massachusetts.

 

08:32:22
Morten Lauridsen: Ubi caritas et amor
Polyphony, Stephen Layton

 

William Batchelder Bradbury: Sweet Hour of Prayer
Anonymous 4

 

Morten Lauridsen (1943-)wrote his setting of the Maundy Thursday antiphon in memory of

Richard Trame who was a Jesuit priest and musician. Besides Sweet Hour of Prayer William

Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868) also wrote the tune for Jesus Loves Me.

 

08:44:32
Alec Wyton: Fanfare
Marilyn Keiser, organ
Aeolian-Skinner organ in Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City. This famous instrument
was destroyed in the attacks of September 11, 2001

 

Dr. Marilyn Keiser studied with Dr. Alec Wyton when he was organist of New York City’s Cathedral

of Saint John the Divine from 1954-1974.

 

08:52:10
J.S. Bach: Cantata 61, “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”
Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon
Terri Dunn, soprano; Matthew White, alto; 
John Tessier, tenor; Steven Pitkanen, bass

 

Scholars tell us that this cantata dates from 1714 when Bach was at Weimar. Timothy Dickey offers

a detailed commentary.
 

09:08:10
Franz Schmidt: The Book with Seven Seals
Vienna Philharmonic; Vienna Singverein, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Hilde Guden, soprano; Ira Malaniuk, alto; 
Anton Dermota, tenor; Fritz Wunderlich, tenor; 
Walter Berry, bass; Alois Forrer, organ

 

Imagine writing music at a time when Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky were the great composers.

And you had studied with Anton Bruckner and Robert Fuchs. Against that musical backdrop Franz

Schmidt (1874-1939) wrote this magnificent oratorio. There have been a handful of recordings. Some

reviews here.