This week GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet you will hear a Mass for unaccompanied double choir that the composer kept in a drawer for five decades….and three of the best female vocalists in the world….plus two inspiring male ensembles from Canada and Germany. The internationally famous male ensemble from Germany will favor your ears with two […]
Going Beyond Words
The Brothers Haydn and Others
This week GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet travels to Austria and Norway to hear music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Michael Haydn, Franz Joseph Haydn and Norway contributes a selection from Alfred Janson. Host Stan Schmidt give this listen a title of The Brothers Haydn and Others. The main feature is the Missa Sancti Nicolai in G […]
Leonard Bernstein
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to enjoy music by one of America’s most treasured musicians and composers…..Plus you will be treated to stunning music by Randall Thompson, Paweł Łukaszewski, Samuel Barber and a Gaelic Hymn. This visit is called Leonard Bernstein and Friends. Choral groups ready to serve […]
A Visit With John Rutter
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to a visit with British Composer John Rutter and lets you hear three selection never heard on Going Beyond Words. About 1984 I received a call from my friend John Rutter. He said that he has just developed his own record company (Collegium […]
From Both Sides of the Pond
This week on GBW and ACDA Radio/ChoralNet, Host Stan Schmidt brings to your attention the ACDA Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission project that has been on going since 1991. Then he takes you to Rotterdam, the Netherlands for a listen to a stunning 30 minute A Cappella Requiem by Dutch Composer Daniel de Lange. Thus […]
The Sacred and Secular Johann Sebastian Bach
This week on GBW and ACDA ChoralNet Radio your host Stan Schmidt has a visit called the sacred and secular J.S. Bach. Your will hear the only Bach cantata written for Bass and Harpsichord…it’s called Oh Treacherous Love. You will also enjoy two Dialogue Cantatas for Soprano, Bass and Orchestra….Plus two great choruses from some […]