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The Easter Oratorio
Program: Biscuits & Bach
Aired: Sunday, April 16, 2017 @ 7:00 am
Hosted by Matt Rogers
Bach wrote several cantatas for Easter Sunday. This week we feature selections from the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists' album The Easter Oratorio. Host Matt Rogers sits in for this Easter Edition of Biscuits and Bach.
Purchase featured CD: Gardiner: Bach: Easter Oratorio
Playlist
7 am | |
| Orlando Gibbons · "O Clap Your Hands" Cambridge Singers Collegium Records 107 "Faire is the Heaven - Music of the English Church" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin Harmonia Mundi 290157 8 "Bach: Orchestral Suites" | |
| Anonymous · Easter Hymn: "Jesus Christ is risen today" (arr. by Philip Ledger) Choir of King's College, Cambridge Thomas Trotter, organ EMI Classics 65103 "Music for Holy Week" | |
| Alessandro Scarlatti · Recorder Sonata in a Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini, recorder Warner Classics 632642 "Il Giardino Armonico" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Concerto in c for 2 Harpsichords, BWV 1060 Academy of Ancient Music Christophe Rousset, Christopher Hogwood, harpsichords L'Oiseau-Lyre 421500 "Bach: Double Concertos" | |
8 am | |
| George Frideric Handel · Trio Sonata in F, HWV 392 The Brook Street Band Avie 2357 "Handel - Trio Sonatas" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 (Sinfonia; Adagio; Chorus: "Come, hasten and run") The Monteverdi Choir; The English Baroque Soloists Soli Deo Gloria 719 "Bach: Easter Oratorio" | |
| Francesco Maria Veracini · Sonata in Bb, Op. 10, No. 2 Trio Settecento Rachel Barton Pine, violin; John Mark Rozendaal, cello; David Schrader, harpsichord Cedille Records 155 "Veracini - Complete Sonate accademiche" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Oboe d'amore Concerto in G (after cantatas BWV 100, 170 & 30) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra John Abberger, oboe d'amore Analekta 9815 "Concerti Virtuosi" | |
9 am | |
| Antonio Vivaldi · Trio in C, RV 82 Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra John Williams, guitar; Janos Rolla, violin Sony 46556 "Vivaldi: Concertos" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Cantata BWV 4: "Christ lag in Todes Banden" (Christ Lay in the Bounds of Death) Concentus musicus of Vienna Soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir, soprano; Paul Esswood, alto; Kurt Equiluz, tenor; Max van Egmond, bass Teldec 407420 "Bach: Complete Sacred Cantatas" | |
| Tomaso Albinoni · Concerto in F Maurice Andre, trumpet; Marie-Claire Alain, organ Erato 88185 "André and Alain Play Bach, Albinoni, Handel" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 (v. "O soul, your spices should consist no more of myrrh.") The English Baroque Soloists Hannah Morrison, soprano Soli Deo Gloria 719 "Bach: Easter Oratorio" | |
| Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville · Sonata No. 1, Op. 3 Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble Archiv Produktion 474550 "Mondonville: 6 Sonates Op. 3" | |
10 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Trio Sonata in c, BWV 526 The King's Consort David Woodcock, violin; Jane Norman, viola Hyperion 66843 "Bach: Six Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530" | |
| George Frideric Handel · Messiah: Part III - Easter portion (selections) The Sixteen Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Christopher Purves, bass Coro 16062 "Handel: Messiah" | |
| Francesco Geminiani · Concerto grosso No. 7 in d (after Corelli, Op. 5, No. 7) Academy of Ancient Music Harmonia Mundi 290726 2 "Geminiani: Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Op. 5" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 (conclusion) The Monteverdi Choir; The English Baroque Soloists Hannah Morrison, soprano; Meg Bragle, alto; Nicholas Mulroy, tenor; Peter Harvey, bass Soli Deo Gloria 719 "Bach: Easter Oratorio" | |