It’s not often one gets to co-host a show with gremlins. But on our penultimate day in the studio, it happened to me.
Today, the beginning of the show had lovely music, interspersed with …
… silence!
Direct sunlight on the presenter’s fade button meant that while it looked like everything was ticketty boo, in fact I was just talking to myself. Listeners could hear the music, however – which was the most important part of the programme.
Consequently, this show opens directly with the first track, Allegri’s Miserere Mei – all 11 minutes 52 seconds of it.
Sheet Music: Allegri’s Miserere
Here is a link to a documentary from Lyric FM about the Miserere. It won a bronze medal at this year’s New York Festival -Radio.
Yup, you’re not hearing things.The third track? It is the music from the Eurovision – but Charpentier preferred to call it Te Deum!
I pick up the narrative after the fourth track: Mozart’s Requiem is my Desert Island disc – especially this recording conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Below is the podcast of the show and a full playlist. Feel free to leave comments!
The Western Skyline – Classical Choruses – First broadcast on wildatlanticwaves.wordpress.com 10.30 -11.30am Wednesday 29 July 2015:
PLAYLIST
Track Name: Miserere Mei
Complete Work Name: Miserere Mei
Composer: Gregorio Allegri
Choir: The Sixteen
Orchestra: with the Gabrielli Consort & the choir of Kings College Cambridge
Conductor:
Album Title: Allegri Miserere: Tallis: Lamentation of Jeremiah, & other Renaissance Masterpieces
Record Label: Decca Virtuoso 2011
Duration: 11.52
Track Name: Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting Alone
Complete Work Name: Same
Composer: John Farmer
Choir: The Kings Singers
Orchestra: The Consort of Musicke
Conductor:
Album Title: The Madrigal Mystery Tour
Record Label: EMI 1989
Duration: 01.11
Track Name: Te Deum , Laudamus, Te Aeternum Patrem
Complete Work Name: Te Deum
Composer: Marc Antoine Charpentier H146
Choir: Le Poeme Harmonique, Capella Claco Viensis
Soloist: Benoit Arnould
Conductor: Vincent Dumestre
Album Title: (Live recording) La Chappelle Royale du Chateau de Versailles
Record Label: Alpha Productions 2013
Duration: 06.20
Track Name: Communio, Lux Aeterna
Complete Work Name: Requiem in D Minor, K.626
Composer: W A Mozart ( completed by Franz Xaver Sussmeyer)
Soloists: Wiener Singeren & Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Album Title: Mozart, Requiem
Record Label: Deutshe Grammophon GmBH 1976/1988
Duration: 06.03
Track Name: In Paradisum
Complete Work Name: Requiem in D Minor, Opus 48
Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Choir: Choir of Kings College Cambridge
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Album Title: Fauré Requiem & Mese Basse
Record Label: Choir Kings College 2014
Duration: 03.10
Track Name: Thine Own of Thine Own
Complete Work Name: Liturgy of St John Chrysostem in C Major, Opus 41
Composer: Pytor Tchaikovsky
Choir & Orchestra: USSR Ministry & Culture State Chamber Choir (live recording)
Conductor: Valery Polyansky
Album Title: Liturgy of St John Chrysostem
Record Label: FSU ‘Firma Melodie’ 2011
Duration: 03.54
Track Name: I told my sweetheart
Complete Work Name: Ten Russian Folk Songs
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choir & Orchestra: Chorus of the Moscow Academy of Choral Art
Conductor: Victor Popov Piano: Tatyana Kravchenko
Album Title: Shostakovich: Choral Music
Record Label: Brillian Classics 2013 (1999 National Music Publishers, Russian Federation)
Recorded in the Small Hall, Moscow Conservatory Jan-Apr 1998
Duration: 04.08
Track Name: Song for Athene
Complete Work Name: Song for Athene
Composer: John Taverner
Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Conductor: Christopher Robinson
Album Title: Taverner: Song for Athene/Svyati
Record Label: Naxos 2000
Duration: 05.21
Track Name: Adhaan – The Muslim Call to Prayer
Complete Work Name: The Armed Man
Composer: Religious – traditional
Muzzein: Mohammed Gad
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Karl Jenkins
Album Title: The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace
Record Label: Virgin Records 2001
Duration: 01.56
Track Name: L’Homme Armé
Complete Work Name: The Armed Man
Composer: Karl Jenkins
Choir: National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Karl Jenkins
Album Title: The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace
Record Label: Virgin Records 2001
Duration: 06.00
Karen J McDonnell 