What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 30, 2012

Hour 1 of Great Sacred Music features settings of the familiar Ave Maria prayer. Several will be familiar, but I have included one or two which I trust will be unfamiliar. All are beautiful pieces of music quite worthy of the ancient text.

 

If you have not listened to Sir Edward Elgar’s The Kingdom in a while, you are in for a treat. Here is a link to a synopsis of the work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_(Elgar) Thanks to you and other listeners who support Great Sacred Music, we are able to present Elgar’s monumental work in its entirety.

 

Pledge Drive Editions of Great Sacred Music on October 28 and November 4 are All Request Editions of the show. Please send me your short (4-6 minute) selections as soon as you can.

 

Rob

 

Rob Kennedy

Great Sacred Music

The Classical Station

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08:00:20

Don Carlo Gesualdo: Ave dulcissima Maria

Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

 

08:08:13

Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria (for double choir)

St. Clement’s Choir, Philadelphia, Peter Richard Conte

 

08:11:30

Franz Biebl: Ave Maria

Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, Robert Shaw

Nannette Soles, alto; Sean Mayer, tenor; Charles Sprawls, bass

 

08:18:10

Franz Schubert: Ave Maria, D. 839

Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral; English Chamber Orchestra, Barry Rose

Kiri te Kanawa, soprano; Thelma Owen, harp

 

08:21:43

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Ave Maria for five voices

Corydon Singers, Matthew Best

 

08:25:44

Gustav Holst: Ave Maria, Op. 9b

Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene

 

08:30:30

Rihards Dubra: Ave Maria in A flat

Cambridge Chorale, Michael Kibblewhite

 

08:37:19

Joseph-Guy Ropartz: Ave Maria

Michel Piquemal Vocal Ensemble, Michel Piquemal

 

08:39:55

Morten Lauridsen: Ave Maria

Polyphony, Stephen Layton

 

08:47:50

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Ave Maria ~ Vespers

St. Petersburg Choir, Vladislav Tchernouchenko

 

08:51:32

Healey Willan: Prelude on “Ave maris stella”

Patrick Wedd, organ

Casavant Organ (1914, 1995) of the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal

 

08:56:09

J.S. Bach: Cantata 114,  “Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost”

Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass

 

09:20:55

Sir Edward Elgar: The Kingdom, Parts 1 and 2

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Leonard Slatkin

Yvonne Kenny, soprano, the Blessed Virgin;

Alfreda Hodgson, contralto, Mary Magdalene;

Christopher Gillett, tenor, St. John; Benjamin

Luxon, bass, St. Peter