What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 6, 2015

Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday morning from 8 until 11 a.m. eastern on The Classical Station.

Much of the music on this week’s playlist can also be found on Spotify at this link: Great Sacred Music – September 6, 2015

Also on Sunday evenings you can hear more choral music both sacred and secular on Wavelengths and Peaceful Reflections

beginning at 9 p.m. eastern.

 

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08:01:08
Gregorian chant: Cantique: Benedictus I
Monks of Saint-Benoit Abbey, Andre Saint-Cyr

 

Alan Hovhaness: I will rejoice in the Lord, Op. 42
Gloriae Dei Cantores, Elizabeth C. Patterson

 

Girolamo Frescobaldi: Canzona alla francese
Rene Saorgin, organ
The 1581 Graziadio Antegnati organ in the
Church of San Giuseppe at Brescia, Italy

 

The Abbey of Saint Benoit du Lac is located on the shores of Lake

Memphramagog in Quebec.  Gloriae Dei Cantores is a 40 voice mixed

choir which has its home at the Community of Jesus, Orleans, Massachusetts.

Costanzo Antegnati (1549-1624) was a prominent 16th century organ builder. 

 

08:16:54
Sir John Goss: O Taste and See
Clare College Chapel Choir, Timothy Brown
Dominic Wheeler, organ

 

Carson Cooman: God, You Move Among Us
Royal Holloway Choir, University of London, Rupert Gough
Samuel Rathbone, organ

 

J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 610
Wilhelm Krumbach, organ

 

English organist and composer Sir John Goss (1800-1880) was organist

of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, where his mission was to raise the standards

of music. Rochester, New York native Carson Cooman is a prodigious composer.

His latest opus number is 1120. The Bach chorale prelude is found in the Arnstadt

Organ Book which was in an 18th century manuscript ‘discovered’ in the Yale Library

in 1984.

 

08:28:33
Jacob Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi
Stile Antico

 

Lee Hoiby: The Lamb
James Jirtle, treble; James H. Lazenby, piano

 

Max Reger: Toccata in D minor, Op. 59 No. 5
Andrew Lucas, organ
Willis/Mander organ St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

 

Franco-Flemish composer Jacob Clemens non Papa lived from c.
1510/15 to c. 1555/56. James Jirtle earned his doctorate in theology and

music from the University of Durham. In 1972 Mander began the rebuild

of the 1872 Henry Willis instrument in St. Paul’s Cathedral. 

 

08:43:46
William Batchelder Bradbury: Sweet Hour of Prayer
Anonymous 4

 

Dan Locklair: Pater noster (Our Father)
Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham, Rodney Wynkoop

 

Alfred Hollins: Concert Rondo
Jonathan Bielby, organ
Willis organ of Huddersfield Town Hall, Yorkshire, England

 

Anonymous 4 is famous for its interpretation of plainchant. It is fascinating

to hear them bring the same exquisite blend and other performance metrics

to their interpretation of music from colonial America. Dan Locklair (1949-)

is Composer-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North

Carolina. English organist Jonathan Bielby served more than 40 years as

organist of Wakefield Cathedral.

 

09:00:55
J.S. Bach: Cantata 25, “Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe”
Holland Boys’ Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium
Pieter Jan Leusink
Marjon Strijk, soprano; Sytse Buwalde, alto;
Knut Schoch, tenor; Bas Ramselaar, bass

 

The German translates as “There is nothing healthy in my body”.

The cantata was first performed on August 29, 1723 in Leipzig. You will

hear the familiar Passion Chorale tune used in the opening movement.

 

09:18:05
W.A. Mozart: Regina coeli, K. 108
Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music
Westminster Cathedral Boys Choir, Christopher Hogwood
Emma Kirkby, soprano

 

Mozart’s setting of the Regina Coeli was written when the composer was

fifteen years old. It is one of three settings of the text which he composed.

 

09:32:50
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D, Op. 123
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Barenboim
Tina Kiberg, soprano; Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano;
John Aler, tenor; Robert Holl, bass

 

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis was first performed on April 7, 1784 in St.

Petersburg, Russia. It is a demanding work from the point of view of the forces

required as well as its heavy musical demands. The chorus on this recording was

prepared by Margaret Hillis who founded the Chicago Symphony Chorus.