I post these playlists weekly with the hope that you might find them useful
as you plan your music lists. All of my playlists are on Spotify for you to
enjoy at your convenience.
GSM – October 16, 2016 https://goo.gl/lwIMGo
Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed
on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.
Rob Kennedy
WCPE The Classical Station
Web: TheClassicalStation.org
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Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu
Christine Brewer, soprano; Paul Jacobs, organ
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut lilium inter spinas & Introduxit me rex
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Pietro Mascagni, arr. Karel Marc Chicon: Ave Maria
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestrar, Karel Mark Chichon
Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano
French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was a child prodigy and
sister of Nadia Boulanger. We continue our survey of Palestrina’s extensive choral music with two more motets from the Song of Songs. Karel Marc Chicon arranged this setting of the “Ave Maria” text to the tune of the Intermezzo from Mascagni’s opera, “Cavalleria rusticana.”
Ildebrando Pizzetti: De profundis
Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse
Hieronymus Praetorius: O bone Jesu
The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood
The English chamber choir Vasari Singers was founded in 1981. North German composer Praetorius (1560–1629) flourished in the late Renaissance period.
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Ned Rorem: Three Motets on Poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
The Harvard University Choir, Murray Forbes Somerville
Carson Cooman, organ
Dr. Murray Forbes Somerville was Gund University Organist and Choirmaster from 1990 to 2003, The Memorial Church at Harvard University.
Sir Edward Elgar: Lux aeterna
Voces8
J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
John Longhurst, organ
1948 Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah
Sir John Goss: Praise, my soul, the king of heaven!
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Richard Gowers, organ
English choral ensemble Voces8, as the Latin name implies, is an a capella octet. American organist John Longhurst served as Organist of the Mormon Tabernacle from 1977-2007. We continue our airing of King’s College recently released CD “Hymns from King’s” with Victorian composer Sir John Stainer’s grand setting of “Praise, my soul, the king of heaven!”
J.S. Bach: Cantata 98, “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass
The German translates as “What God does, that is done well.” The cantata was first performed in Leipzig on November 10, 1726. It is one of three cantatas which Bach wrote using this title.
Ferdinando Bertoni: Veni Creator
Stockholm Radio Chorus; I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone
Patricia Schuman, soprano; Margarita Zimmermann, mezzo-soprano
Italian composer Ferdinando Bertoni (1725–1813) wrote seventy operas and over two hundred sacred works.
Cesar Franck: Priére, Op. 20
Michael Murray, organ
Cavaillé-Coll organ at Saint Sernin Basilica, Toulouse
Belgian-born composer and organist Cesar Franck was Organist of Eglise Sainte Clothilde in Paris. His “Priere” was published as the fifth in a set of six pieces in 1862.
Juan Garcia de Salazar: Vespers of Our Lady
Ministriles de Marsias; Capilla Penaflorida, Josep Cabre
Spanish baroque composer Juan Garcia de Salazar (1639–1710) was the musician at the Catedral del Santisimo Salvador in Zamora, Spain.
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