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Holy Week
Program: Biscuits & Bach
Aired: Sunday, April 5, 2020 @ 7:00 am
Hosted by Rachel Stewart
This week there are a number of works for Palm Sunday and Holy Week including: selections from Bach's St. John Passion and Magnificat as well as one of his Palm Sunday cantatas. The morning will also feature the transcendent Miserere by Gregorio Allegri, music written for Tenebrae services at the Vatican in the 1630s.
Playlist
7 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Choral "O Man bewail your great sin" from "St. John Passion" BWV 245 Collegium Vocale Gent Harmonia Mundi 901748 "Bach: St. John Passion" | |
| Georg Philipp Telemann · Violin Concerto No. 4 in E Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Iona Brown, violin Philips 411125 "Telemann: 5 Violin Concertos" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · "Ruht wohl" (Rest here in peace) from St. John Passion, BWV 245 Academy of Ancient Music & Chorus AAM Records 2 "Bach: St. John Passion" | |
| Georg Matthias Monn · Cello Concerto in g London Symphony Orchestra Jacqueline du Pre, cello Warner Classics 91934 "Jacqueline Du Pré - Great Recordings" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · St. John Passion, BWV 245 (part 2 selections) Apollo's Fire and Apollo's Singers Nicholas Phan, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, baritone; Jeffrey Strauss, baritone; Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Terry Wey, countertenor; Avie 2369 "Bach: St. John Passion" | |
8 am | |
| Gregorio Allegri · "Miserere" A Sei Voci Naive 8909 "Gregorio Allegri: Miserere" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Chorale No. 7 & Sinfonia No. 8, from Cantata BWV 75 Paillard Chamber Orchestra Erato 88020 "Pachelbel - Canon; Albinoni - Adagio" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, selections Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano Decca 425691 "Bach: St. Matthew Passion - Arias & Choruses" | |
| George Frideric Handel · Concerto Grosso in c, Op. 6, No. 8 Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra Archiv Produktion 463094 "Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6" | |
9 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Suite from the Partita in E for violin, BWV 1006 (trans. by Sergei Rachmaninov) Olga Kern, piano Harmonia Mundi 907336 "Rachmaninov Transcriptions" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Cantata BWV 182: "Welcome, King of Heaven" American Bach Soloists Christine Brandes, soprano; Judith Malafronte, alto; Jeffrey Thomas, tenor; James Weaver, bass Koch International 37235 "JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. IV" | |
| Johann Joachim Quantz · Concerto in Eb for Horn & Oboe Capella Sagittariana Peter Damm, horn; Wolfgang Holzhauser, oboe Berlin Classics 001177 2 "Hornkonzerte am Sachsischen Hof" | |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina · "Stabat Mater" Cambridge Singers Collegium Records 116 "Ave Gracia Plena - Music in Honour of the Virgin Mary" | |
10 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Trio Sonata in c, BWV 526 The Brook Street Band Rachel Harris, Farran Scott, violins; Carolyn Gibley, harpsichord; Tatty Theo, cello Avie 2199 "JS Bach: Trio Sonatas" | |
| Alessandro Stradella · "Pieta, Signore" (Have mercy, Lord) National Philharmonic Orchestra Luciano Pavarotti, tenor Decca 000530 102 "Luciano Pavarotti: O Holy Night" | |
| Antonio Vivaldi · Recorder Concerto in G, RV 443 Kremerata Baltica Michala Petri, recorder DaCapo 822690 5 "Michala Petri - 50th Birthday Concert" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Magnificat in D, BWV 243 English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir Nancy Argenta, Patrizia Kwella, sopranos; Charles Brett, alto; Anthony Rolf-Johnson, tenor; David Thomas, bass Philips 411458 "Bach: Magnificat" | |