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Through the Night With John Shea. Featuring works by Adelbert Gyrowetz.

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Plainchant

Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Sunday 03 June 2012

Aled Jones takes a look at plainchant, from the middle ages to the present day. The influence of plainchant can be heard in works by sixteenth century composers like Robert Whyte. Subsequently, it became less often heard, until the nineteenth century, when this ancient form of singing was revived by the monks of Solesmes Abbey in France. Since then different forms of chant have inspired a diverse range of composers including Holst, John Tavener and Roxanna Panufnik to draw on its melodic lines.

Music Played

9 items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Plainchant Inchcolm antiphoner - Salve splendor (extract)

    Performers: Canty, Rebecca Tavener (director)

    , LINN RECORDS, CKD-378, 1-1

  • Plainchant Beatus Gallus

    Performers: Canty, Rebecca Tavener (director), William Taylor (harp)

    Linn Records, CKD-378, 1-1

  • Image for Robert Whyte

    Robert Whyte Christe qui lux es et dies

    Conductor: Timothy Brown Performer: Clare College Cambridge Choir

    COLLEGIUM, CSACD 902, 1-11

  • Image for Gregorian Chant

    Gregorian Chant The service for the first Sunday in Ordinary time (excerpt)

    Performers: The Monastic Choir of St. Peters Abbey, Solesmes, Father Yves-Marie Lelievre (director)

    Solemnis, SN18, 1-2

  • Plainchant Sacred Music from Medieval St. Andrews - Sanctus

    Performers: Yorvox, John Potter (tenor)

    Hyperion, CDA-67299, 1-13

  • Image for Roxanna Panufnik

    Roxanna Panufnik All Shall Be Well

    Conductor: David Ogden Performers: Exultate Singers, Richard May (cello)

    Naxos, 8.57276, -1

  • Image for Gustav Holst

    Gustav Holst The Hymn of Jesus Op.37

    Conductor: Richard Hickox Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus

    CHANDOS, CHAN-2416, 1-6

  • Image for John Tavener

    John Tavener Funeral ikos (The Greek funeral sentences)

    Performers: Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse (director)

    Classics for Pleasure, HMV 72521 2, 1-4

  • Image for unknown

    unknown Virgo flagellatur

    Performers: Hilliard Ensemble, Jan Garbarek (saxophone)

    ECM RECORDS, ECM-1525, 1-13

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