What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 28, 2014

In case you cannot hear the show live, the playlist is on Spotify for you to enjoy: GSM – September 28, 2014

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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08:02:00
Traditional English: Ave mundi rosa
Waverly Consort, Michael Jaffee

 

Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury

 

Daniel E. Gawthrop: Chorale
Mary Mozelle, organ
The Mander organ in the Princeton University Chapel

 

Ave mundi rosa (Hail, Rose of the World) is a Gregorian chant which appears on the

Waverly Consort’s Christmas album A Waverly Consort Christmas released in 2003.
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) wrote his setting of O Sacrum Convivium in 1937.
Daniel Gawthrop is an American composer of choral and organ music.

 

08:15:58
Felix Mendelssohn: He, Watching Over Israel ~ Elijah
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw

 

Francis Pott: Ubi caritas
Commotio, Matthew Berry

 

Louis Vierne: Naiades~ Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 55
Joseph Adam, organ
Rosales organ, St. James’ Cathedral, Seattle, Washington

 

Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah was inspired by the great choral masterpieces of Johann

Sebastian Bach.  A few weeks ago I aired one of British composer Francis Pott’s works.

I think this review describes the work we shall hear this morning rather well. “Ubi caritas

et amor is a wedding anthem that makes an effective SATB alternative to Duruflé’s classic

but dispositionally inconvenient SATTBB version.” – Matthew Greenall, The Singer June 2004

Dr. Joseph Adam has been organist of St. James’ Cathedral, Settle since 1993. 

 

08:28:51
Arvo Part: Veni creator
Theatre of Voices; Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier

 

John Rutter: A Clare Benediction

Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter

 

Camille Saint-Saëns: Rhapsodie No. 1 in E,  Op. 7
Marie-Claire Alain, organ

 

Arvo Part’s setting of the ancient hymn Veni Creator was premiered at Fulda

Cathedral in September 2006. John Rutter wrote A Clare Benediction for Clare College,

Cambridge, where he read music and then became the college’s director of music from 1977-1979.
We tend to think of Camille Saint-Saens as the brilliant composer of symphonies. That he was indeed.

But he was also Organiste Titulaire of Paris’ Eglise de la Madeleine from 1857-1877.

 

08:41:37
William Byrd: Justorum animae
Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene

 

Sir John Stainer: For the love of Jesus ~ The Crucifixion
St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir, London, John Scott
Andrew Lucas, organ

 

George Frideric Handel: Organ Concerto in B flat, Op. 4. No. 6
Sonnerie, Monica Huggett
Matthew Halls, organ

 

Dr. Dennis Keene is Director of Music and director of the Voices of Ascension.

Sir John Stainer wrote his Lenten meditation The Crucifixion with the needs and abilities

of average parish choirs in mind. For the love of Jesus is the concluding hymn. Sonnerie is a

 

09:01:57
J.S. Bach: Cantata 100, “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium
Pieter Jan Leusink
Marjon Strijk, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Nico van der Meel, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

 

Last Sunday we heard BWV 99 which is one of three cantatas which Bach based on Samuel Rodigast’s hymn

Was Gott tut. The opening chorus is similar to that of BWV 99. Simon Crouch offers a detailed commentary in Bach Cantatas.
 

09:26:44
Pier Francesco Cavalli: Salve Regina
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

 

Pier Francesco Caletti-Bruni (1602-1676), known as Cavalli after his patron, was a choirboy at

St. Mark’s, Venice. He is perhaps best known for his operas.

 

09:36:17
Karol Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Sir Simon Rattle
Elzbieta Szmytka, soprano; Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano;
John Connell, bass

 

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) wrote his setting of the 13th century Marian hymn Stabat Mater in 1925-26.

It uses a Polish translation of the ancient Latin. 

 

10:01:25
George Dyson: St. Paul’s Voyage to Melita
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Vernon Handley
Neil Mackie, tenor

 

Dyson’s setting of the story of Saint Paul’s journey to Rome (Acts 27) was first performed at Hereford

Cathedral in September 1933. 

10:33:18
Alexandre Guilmant: Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 42
Ben van Oosten, organ
Cavaille-Coll-Organ at St. Ouen, Rouen

 

Aristide Cavaille-Coll (1811-1899) was a French organ builder who created instruments with wonderful

symphonic sounds. He also equipped his instruments with playing aids which made the organ more

manageable from the player’s perspective.