What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, November 8, 2015

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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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08:01:26
from the Office of St. Thorlak, arr. by Trio Mediaeval: Vespers antiphon and psalm IV, V
Trio Mediaeval

 

William Byrd: Civitas sancti tui
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown

 

Loyset Compere: Ave Maria, gratia plena
Joseph Payne, organ
Fisk organ, Opus 78, University of Vermont, Burlington

 

St. Thorlak (d. 1193) is the patron saint of Iceland. Civitas sancti tui by English

Tudor era composer William Byrd exhibits Byrd’s talent for writing beautiful counterpoint.

Flemish composer Loyset Compere (1445-1518) flourished at about the same time as the

better known composer Josquin des Prez.

 

08:14:53
Ildebrando Pizetti: De profundis
Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse

 

Orlande de Lassus: Lauda anima mea
Currende, Erick van Nevel

 

Max Reger: Chorale Prelude on Sleepers, Awake!, Op. 67 No. 41
Martin Welzel, organ
1974 Johannes Klais organ, Trier Cathedral

 

Italian composers Ildebrando Pizetti and Ottorino Respighi were among

the first composers from their country not to gain fame for their operas.

Franco-Flemish composer Orlando de Lassus (1532-1594) left us over 60

masses and hundreds of motets. The Johannes Klais organ in Trier Cathedral,

Germany is nicknamed the “swallows nest organ” perched as it is high on the

wall of the north transept.

 

08:28:14
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria
Cathedral Choir Men of St. James, James Savage
Lorin Wingate, cantor; Howard Fankhauser, tenor;
Dan Dunne, tenor; Matthew Wilkins, baritone

 

Hector Berlioz: Veni creator
Montreal Symphony Chorus, Charles Dutoit
Andree de Repentigny, soprano I; Darquise Bilodeau, soprano II; Maren Nelson, contralto

 

Healey Willan: Epilogue
Patrick Wedd, organ
Casavant Organ (1914, 1995) of the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal

 

German composer Franz Biebl (1906-2001) wrote his Ave Maria for double male chorus,

specifically for a firemen’s choir. Berlioz’ Veni Creator is scored for women’s voices. Canadian

organist Patrick Wedd has been Director of Music of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal since 1996.

 

08:44:23
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dilectus meus descendit & Pulchra es
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter

 

Jane Marshall: Psalm 85, A Psalm of Peace
Turtle Creek Chorale, Timothy Seelig

 

Dietrich Buxtehude: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor, BuxWV 146
Haig Mardirosian, organ
Dobson organ at Sykes Chapel, University of Tampa, Florida

 

We continue our survey of the works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina with

two motets based on texts from the Song of Songs. The Dallas-based Turtle Creek

Chorale was founded in 1985. American organist Haig Mardirosian is Dean of the College

of Arts and Letters and Professor of Music at The University of Tampa, Florida.

 

09:01:13
J.S. Bach: Cantata 163, Nur jedem das Seine
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman
Els Bongers, soprano; Elisabeth von Magnus, alto;
Paul Agnew, tenor; Klaus Mertens, bass

 

The German translates as “To each only his due!” and was first performed in Weimar on

November 24, 1715.

 

09:19:36
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Te Deum
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet

 

The choral music of the Italian-born Lully deserves to be performed more frequently than it

is. In my opinion Lully shares Vivaldi’s gift for setting his texts with music which makes the

words leap off the page.

 

09:49:48
Justin Heinrich Knecht: Three Pieces for Organ
Heinrich Hamm, organ
The c1741 Gabler organ in The Basilica of Weingarten

 

German organist and composer Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817) was director of music in

Biberach for most of his life.

 

10:01:18
J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D, BWV 243
Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
Emily Van Evera, soprano I; Evelyn Tubb, soprano II;
Caroline Trevor, alto; Howard Crook, tenor; Simon Grant, bass

 

Bach’s Magnificat was first performed at Vespers on Christmas Day in 1723 in Leipzig. The

work consists of 12 movements and is considered to be one of the finest compositions written

by the master.

 

10:27:59
John Blow: The glorious day is come
Parley of Instruments; Playford Consort, Peter Holman and Richard Wistreich
Suzie Le Blanc, soprano; Michael Chance, counter-tenor;
Joseph Cornwell, tenor; Jozic Koc, bass

 

English composer John Blow (1649-1708) taught several prominent English composers including William Croft,

Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell