Last week, there was only one strictly choral work on the show! To rectify that programming oddity, nine of this weekâs 16 pieces are choral! Weâll hear from John Tavener, Orlando de Lassus, Herbert Howells, and CPE Bach, and many other composers this week in a very packed program.
TTF Program 338 January 16, 2021
Hour One
Stanford: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (The Choir of Winchester Cathedral; The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; dir. David Hill) 6:24
Eberlin: Tenerae Facta Sunt (Rodolfus Choir, dir. Ralph Allwood) 5:00
Liszt: Ave Maria (Chamber Choir Ave Sol Riga, dir. Imants Kokars) 6:15
Montepelier Codex: (Anonymous 4) 4:40
Schumann: Scenes from Goetheâs Faust -- Ein Sumpf zieht am Gebirgâ hin -- Hier ist die Aussicht frei (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; English Chamber Orchestra, dir. Benjamin Britten) 9:32
Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (New York Philharmonic, dir. Leonard Bernstein) 21:20
Hour Two
Tavener: They are all gone into the world of light (Winchester Cathedral Choir, dir. Andrew Lumsden) 4:29
Verdi: from Un Ballo in Maschera -- Morro, ma prima in grazia (Leontyne Price, soprano; RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, dir. Erich Leinsdorf) 4:45
Corigliano: Fern Hill (Kansas City Chorale, dir. Charles Bruffy) 18:13
Lassus: Infelix ego (Oxford Camerata, dir. Jeremy Summerly) 10:04
Ravel: Bolero (Basque National Orchestra, dir. Robert Trevino) 15:27
Hour Three
Howells: Here is the little Door (The Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford, dir. Benjamin Nicholas) 3:56
Paul Carr: A Very English Music (Royal Ballet Sinfonia, dir. Gavin Sutherland) 7:42 Schubert: Symphony #5 (BBC Philharmonic, dir. Juanjo Mena) 27:50
Mahler: Blumine (San Francisco Symphony, dir. Michael Tilson Thomas) 8:28
CPE Bach: Vater deiner schwachen Kinder (Barbara Schlick, soprano; Christoph Pregardien, tenor; Rheinische Kantorei; Das Kleine Konzert; dir. Hermann Max) 5:14