This morning’s music includes a selection from Francois Couperin’s understated masterpiece, the Tenebrae lessons for Holy Wednesday. We’ll also find out what the Vatican connection is between Giovanni Palestrina and Gregorio Allegri, and hear the music they wrote for Holy Week.
Holy Wednesday
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Playlist:
8:08 am
- Quiet City
- Composer: Aaron Copland
- Ensemble: New York Chamber Symphony
- Soloists: Mark Hill, english horn ; Neil Baum, trumpet
- Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
- CD/Album: "Copland: Clarinet Concerto, etc."
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49095
8:17 am
- Divertimento ("St. Anthony Chorale")
- Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
- Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin
- CD/Album: "Ensemble Wien-Berlin"
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 39558
8:29 am
- Lecons de Tenebres: Troisieme Lecon
- Composer: Francois Couperin
- Soloists: Robin Blaze, counter-tenor ; Daniel Taylor, countertenor ; Jonathan Manson, viola da gamba ; Laurence Cummings, organ
- CD/Album: "Couperin: Magnificat - Lecons de Tenebres"
- Record co./Cat #: Bis 1346
- Note: (text from the prophet Jeremiah, from the short Book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. aka: "Lessons of darkness for Holy Wednesday")
8:44 am
- Suite in the Old Style
- Composer: Alfred Schnittke
- Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta
- Conductor: Ralf Gothoni
- CD/Album: "Schnittke: Quasi una Sonata, etc."
- Record co./Cat #: BIS 1437
9:02 am
- Symphony #2 in Bb , Wq 182/2
- Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Ensemble: Bern Camerata
- CD/Album: "Camerata Bern - That Special Something"
- Record co./Cat #: Musica Helvetica 63
- Note: (from the "Hamburg" Symphonies)
9:14 am
- Crux fidelis/Pange lingua
- Composer: Giovanni Palestrina
- Ensemble: Musica Contexta
- Conductor: Simon Ravens
- CD/Album: "Palestrina: Music for Good Friday"
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 0652
- Note: (hymn: "faithful cross / proclaim, my tongue")
9:27 am
- A Somerset Rhapsody
- Composer: Gustav Holst
- Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Richard Hickox
- CD/Album: "Holst: Egdon Heath/Hammersmith, etc."
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9420
9:37 am
- Miserere
- Composer: Gregorio Allegri
- Ensemble: Dale Warland Singers
- Conductor: Dale Warland
- CD/Album: "Cathedral Classics"
- Record co./Cat #: ACC (American Choral Catalogue) 120
- Note: (motet setting of Psalm 51: "Have mercy on me, God")
9:51 am
- Church Windows: (3rd mvmt) The Matins of Saint Clare
- Composer: Ottorino Respighi
- Ensemble: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Jesus Lopez-Cobos
- CD/Album: "Respighi: Church Windows - Brazilian Impressions"
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80356