What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 14, 2014

In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify for you to enjoy: GSM – September 14, 2014

Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed on Sunday

evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.

 

Rob

Rob Kennedy
Great Sacred Music
The Classical Station
http://theclassicalstation.org
……………………………

08:01:19
Joao Lourenco Rebelo: Qui habitat
The Sixteen/Christophers, Harry Christophers

 

Rihards Dubra: Oculus Non Vidit
Cambridge Chorale, Michael Kibblewhite

 

Germaine Tailleferre: Nocturne
Frances Nobert, organ

 

Joao Lourenco Rebelo (1610-1661) was a Portugese composer of the renaissance.

The anthem takes its text from Psalm 91, verses 1-6. Rihards Dubra (1964-) is a

Latvian composer whose sacred music is rooted in the great music of the past.

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) was the only woman member of Les Six in Paris

back in the 1920s.

 

08:15:04
Tomas Luis de Victoria: Magnificat a 12, tono VI
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh

 

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude on the Welsh Hymn-tune Rhosymedre
Carlo Curley, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ in the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, England

 

The Magnificat for 12 voices by Tomas Luis de Victoria is included in a CD entitled

 “Music for the Duke of Lerma”. The organ interludes were composed by Antonio

de Cabezon. Carlo Curley (1952-2012), a native of North Carolina, was styled

“The Pavarotti of the Organ”.

 

08:32:09
Guillaume Dufay: Tibi, Christe, splendor patris
Currende, Erick van Nevel

 

Sir Edward Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter

 

Pietro A. Yon: Toccatina for Flute
David Hicken, organ

 

Currende is a Belgian early music ensemble which was founded in 1974. Bairstow’s

anthem takes its text from the Liturgy of St. James. Pietro A. Yon (1886-1943) was

an organist and composer who became Organist of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York

in 1928.

 

08:43:19 
Imant Raminsh: Ave verum corpus
Choir of St. John’s, Elora, Noel Edison

 

William Marion Runyan: Great is thy faithfulness
Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer
Rupert Gough, organ

 

Marcel Dupré: Cortege and Litany, Op. 19 No. 2
Michael Murray, organ

 

Imant Raminsh (1943-) is a Canadian composer of Latvian descent. When Malcolm

Archer was Organist of Wells Cathedral, his choir produced a 5 CD set entitled

“The English Hymn”.  Marcel Dupre (1886-1971) wrote his “Cortege et Litanie”

for piano originally. The work dates from 1923.

 

09:00:58
J.S. Bach: Cantata 164, “Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet”
Leonhardt Consort; Tolzer Knabenchor; Collegium Vocale Gent, Gustav Leonhardt
Christoph Wegmann, soprano; Paul Esswood, alto;
Kurt Equiluz, tenor; Max van Egmond, bass

 

The German translates as “You, who call yourselves after Christ”. The text includes

the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

 

09:20:20
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Sebastian Johns, treble I; Jon Wimpeney, treble II;
Edmund Rex, countertenor; Simon Chambers, bass

 

This hauntingly beautiful setting of Psalm 51 was composed for use in the Pope’s private

chapel. A 14 year old Mozart heard it and wrote it down from memory.

 

09:35:13
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 552 “St. Anne”
Daniel Chorzempa, organ
the organ in “De Bovenkirk”, Kampen, The Netherlands

 

The Prelude and Fugue are the opening and closing movements of Bach’s Clavier-Ubung

sometimes called a German Organ Mass.

 

10:00:20
Luigi Cherubini: Requiem in D minor
Ambrosian Singers/New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

 

Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (1760-1842) was regarded by Beethoven

as one of his greatest contemporaries. This Requiem was written in 1836 for the

composer’s funeral.

 

10:54:11
Jehan Alain: Postlude pour l’Office de Complies
James Lancelot, organ
Harrison & Harrison organ of Durham Cathedral, England

 

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) was a member of the musical Alain family which included his

sister the organist Marie-Claire Alain.