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
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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
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