What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, October 13, 2013

Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m.

on The Classical Station.

 

 

08:00:31
Anonymous: Tierce en taille in C
Kenneth Gilbert, organ

Helmut Wolff organ in Redpath Hall, McGill University, Montreal

 

Jules Van Nuffel: Laetatus sum
Choir of St. Rombaux Cathedral, Malines, Belgium, Johan van Bouwelen
Peter Pieters, organ

 

Orlando Gibbons: Great Lord of Lords
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly

 

Kenneth Gilbert (1931-)plays a selection from The Montreal Organ Book,

a collection of 17th century French organ music imported to Lower Canada

back in the 17th century. The collection lay on a seminary library shelf until

it was discovered in 1978. Jules Van Nuffel (1883-1953) was a cantor the St.

Rumbold’s Cathedral, Mechelen, Belgium where he collaborated with Flor Peeters.

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was a chorister in King’s College Choir from 1596-1598.

 

08:15:54
Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia in A minor
Simon Preston, organ

 

Anton Bruckner: Gradual: Os justi
Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene

 

Sir William Harris: Love of love, light of light
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington

 

Simon Preston (1938-) was sub-organist of Westminster Abbey from 1962 to 1967

and organist from 1981 to 1987. We normally associate Anton Bruckner with the grand

symphonies which he wrote in his later years. But he also wrote many fine motets and

anthems for liturgical use. Sir William Henry Harris (1883-1973) was Professor of Organ

and Harmony at the Royal College of Music from 1921 to 1955.

 

08:29:18
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Prelude on a Theme of Orlando Gibbons, Op.105
Jennifer Bate, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ in St. James’ Church, Muswell Hill

 

Basil Harwood: O how glorious
Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, John Scott
Andrew Lucas, organ

 

Gregorian chant: Cantique: Benedictus I
Monks of Saint-Benoit Abbey
Andre Saint-Cyr

 

Jennifer Bate (1944-) is an English organist who was married to Sir George Thalben Ball,

organist of The Temple Church, London. The All Saints anthem “O how glorious is the

Kingdom” is essentially an organ concerto with choir accompaniment. The Abbey of Saint

Benoit du Lac was founded on the shores of Lac Memphramagog, Quebec in 1912.

 

08:45:06
Alexandre Guilmant: Pastorale ~ Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 42
Jane Watts, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ in Westminster Abbey

 

Gustav Holst: Ave Maria, Op. 9b
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Richard Marlow

 

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Ave Maria for six voices
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best

Jane Watts was Organist with London’s famed Bach Choir from 1991-2010.

Gustav Holst’s setting of the Ave Maria is scored for 8 female voices (SSAA SSAA)

and dates from 1900. Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) wrote his Ave Maria in 1938

for six voices (SSAATB).

 

09:00:30
J.S. Bach: Cantata 180, “Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele”
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Timothy Kenworthy-Brown, countertenor; Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass-baritone

 

Cantata 180 was written for the 20th Sunday after Trinity and first performed on October 22, 1724.

 

09:23:40
Robert Moran: Trinity Requiem
Youth and Adult Chorus, Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York
Robert Ridgell
(Commissioned by Trinity Wall Street for the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001)

 

You might enjoy reading the New York Times review of Robert Moran’s poignant setting of the requiem. 

 

09:55:20
Cesar Franck: The Beatitudes, Part 2
Choirs of Radio France; New Philharmonic Orchestra, Armin Jordan
Louise Lebrun, soprano; Jane Berbie, mezzo-soprano;
Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto; David Rendall and Peter Jeffes, tenor; Marcel Vanaud, baritone; Francois Loup and Daniel
Ottevaere, bass

Cesar Franck’s monumental choral masterpiece The Beatitudes was never fully performed

during his lifetime. We heard Part 1 last Sunday and complete our airing of the work this Sunday