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Monday - Sarah Walker

Essential Classics With Sarah Walker. Including Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony (excerpt).

The Choir

Choral Works by Berlioz and Gabrieli

Episode image for Choral Works by Berlioz and Gabrieli

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Aled Jones examines how Berlioz's fascination with the use of space and sonority, fired his imagination in his large scale Requiem Mass, a celebration of another great choral innovator, Giovanni Gabrieli, to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. There's also news of the Gabrieli Consort, who celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2012, under the baton of their musical director Paul McCreesh.

Music played

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  • Artist Image for Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn The Creation - Chorus: Awake the harp, the lyre awake

    Performer: Mark Padmore (Tenor), Chetham's Chamber Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, 477-7361, 1-11

  • Artist Image for Giovanni Gabrieli

    Giovanni Gabrieli Buccinate in neomenia tuba for 19 voices [Blow the trumpet when the moon is new]

    Performer: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    ARCHIV, 449-1802, 1-6

  • Artist Image for Claudio Monteverdi

    Claudio Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine - Psalm 121: Laetatus sum

    Performer: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, 477-6147, 1-11

  • Artist Image for Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach Matthauspassion BWV.244 - Opening chorus: Kommt, ihr Tochter, halft mir klagen [Come, you daughter, help me grieve!]

    Performer: Deborah York (Soprano), James Gilchrist (Tenor), Julia Gooding (Soprano), Magdalena Kozena (Mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (Tenor), Peter Harvey (Baritone), Stephan Loges (Baritone), Susan Bickley (Mezzo-soprano), performer: Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    ARCHIV, .-4742002, 1-1

  • Artist Image for Arnold Bax

    Arnold Bax Mater ora filium

    Performer: Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    Deutsche Gramophon, 477-7635, 1-12

  • Artist Image for Benjamin Britten

    Benjamin Britten A Ceremony of carols Op.28

    Conductor: David HILL Performer: Sioned Williams (Harp), Westminster Cathedral Choir

    HYPERION, CDA-66220, 1-1

  • Artist Image for Hector Berlioz

    Hector Berlioz Grande messe des morts Op.5 - Dies irae

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh Performer: Robert Murray (Tenor), Chetham's School of Music Symphonic Brass Ensemble, Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    SIGNUM CLASSICS, SIGCD 280, 2-3

  • Artist Image for Herbert Howells

    Herbert Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing

    Performer: Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, 477 660-5, 1-12

  • Artist Image for Felix Mendelssohn

    Felix Mendelssohn Elijah Op.70 - Chorus: He, watching over Israel, slumbers not He, watching over Israel, slumbers not

    Conductor: Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos Conductor: Wilhelm Pitz Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), Gwyneth Jones (Soprano), Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano), Nicolai Gedda (Tenor), New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir

    EMI CLASSICS, 568-6012, 2-9

  • Artist Image for Giovanni Gabrieli

    Giovanni Gabrieli Magnificat for 33 voices (recreated by Hugh Keyte for McCreesh from a 17-voice original, ‘after’ Gabrieli)

    Performer: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh (Director)

    , ARCHIV, 449-1802, 1-18

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