What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 18, 2016

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 – September 18, 2016 https://goo.gl/MeJd4X

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
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Dominique Phinot: O sacrum convivium
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Quam pulchri sunt
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter

Rowland Huw Prichard: Alleluya, sing to Jesus
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Richard Gowers, organ

Franco-Flemish composer Dominique Phinot (c.1510–c.1556) was active as a musician in the south of France and Italy. “Quam pulchri sunt” is on several motets from Song of Songs which was published in 1584. The Welsh name “Hyfrydol” used for “Alleluya, sing to Jesus” means “pleasant.”

Franz Schubert: Benedictus ~ Mass No. 2 in G, D. 167
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus, Robert Shaw
Dawn Upshaw, soprano; David Gordon, tenor; William Stone, baritone

John IV of Portugal: Crux fidelis; Pange, lingua
Choir of Westminster Abbey, Martin Neary

Pablo Bruna: Pasaccalles II (primer tono)
Jose Suarez, organ
c. 1725 organ in the convent of San Geronimo in Tlacochahuaya, Mexico

Schubert wrote his popular Mass No. 2 in G major in 1815 for the parish church at Lichtental. While King John IV of Portugal was an accomplished musician and composer, the authenticity of his much-loved motet “O crux fidelis” is somewhat in doubt, as it appears to have been written several hundred years after he lived. When the Spanish conquered Mexico, they established churches and cathedrals as well as monasteries and convents in their ongoing mission to convert the natives to Roman Catholicism.

Tomas Luis de Victoria: Ave Regina caelorum
Duke Vespers Ensemble; Mallarme Chamber Players; Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Brian Schmidt
Christopher Jacobson, organ

Johannes Brahms: Ave Maria, Op. 12
Musica Sacra, Richard Westenburg

Francis Jackson: Magnificat (Hereford Service)
Choir of York Minster, Philip Moore
John Scott Whitely, organ

Dr. Brian Schmidt has been on the staff of Duke University since 2012 where he is the Assistant Conductor and Administrative Coordinator of Chapel Music. American choral conductor Richard Westenburg (1932-2008) founded Music Sacra in New York in 1964 and was its director until 2007. Dr. Francis Jackson (1917-) was organist of York Minster from 1946 to 1982.

Lennox Berkeley: A Festival Anthem, Op. 21 No. 2
Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
Jonathan Vaughan, organ

Dietrich Buxtehude: Canzonetta in A minor, Bux WV 225
Nicholas Danby, organ
1590 organ by Georg Slegel II in St.-Marienkirche in Lemgo

English composer Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) left us eight sacred choral compositions. “A Festival Anthem” was commissioned by The Reverend Walter Hussey of St. Matthew’s Church, Northampton, and dates from 1944. Nicholas Danby (1935-1997) was Professor of Organ at both the Royal
College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, London.

J.S. Bach: Cantata 47, “Wer sich selbst erhohet”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink
Ruth Holton, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Nico van der Meel, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

The German translates as “For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased.” This cantata was first performed in Leipzig on October 13, 1726. It is scored for SATB choir, bass and soprano soloists and orchestra.

Don Carlo Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday
Taverner Consort & Choir, Andrew Parrott

Italian composer Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. He gained noteriety for murdering his wife and her lover whom he had caught in flagrante delicto.

Cesar Franck: Chorale No. 3 in A minor
Naji Hakim, organ
1869 Cavaille-Coll organ of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris

Belgian composer Cesar Franck (1822-1890) wrote the three chorales for organ in the last year of his life. These are major works which have become staples of any serious organist’s repertoire.

Franz Liszt: Missa Solemnis
Hungarian Radio and TV Chorus; Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Janos Ferencsik
Veronika Kincses, soprano; Klara Takacs, contralto;
Gyorgy Korondy, tenor; Jozsef Gregor, bass

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) wrote his Missa solemnis for the consecration of the basilica at Esztergom, Hungary in August 1856.