Ian Burnside looks at some of the most significant characters of the Old Testament, with the help of Louis Armstrong, Richard Rogers, Gounod, Schubert and Rev Gary Davis, amongst others.

Playlist

Title Shadrack
Performer Louis Armstrong & the Angels with the Sy Oliver Choir
Composer McGimsey
Album Louis and the Good Book MCA MCLD 19379 1
Track T14

Title In the beginning
Performer Statler Brothers
Composer Cochran / Twomley / Weisman / Wise
Album Seven, Original motion picture soundtrack – Cinerama 0022432CIN
Track 1

Title Eve
Performer Alan Alda & Original Broadway Cast
Composer Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick
Album The Apple Tree Sony Classical SK 48209
Track 4

Title Adam lay ybounden
Performer Choir of St john’s College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson director, James
Martin Organ
Composer Boris Ord
Album Advent Carols from St Johns Nimbus NI 5414
Track 6

Title Two by Two
Performer Danny Kaye & Original Broadway Cast
Composer Richard Rodgers
Album Two by Two Sony Clasical SK 30338
Track 8

Title By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept
Performer Dagmar Pecková / Irwin Gage
Composer Dvorak
Album Dvorak Songs Suraphon SU 3437-2 231
Track 26

Title Dem Unendlichem
Performer Christine Brewer, sop Graham Johnson, piano
Composer Schubert
Album The Hyperion Schubert Edition CDJ33031
Track 3

Title Samson and Delilah
Performer Blind Gary Davis
Composer Trad arr. Gary Davis
Album Harlem Street Singer Prestige OBCCD-547-2
Track 1

Title Denn es gehet dem Menschen
Performer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Jörg Demus
Composer Brahms
Album DG 415 189-2
Track 9

Title It ain't necessarily so
shame on all you sinners
Performer Damon Evans/Glyndebourne Chorus/ LPO/Rattle
Composer Gershwin
Album Porgy & Bess EMI Classics CDS 5562202 1
Track CD2 track 11

Title Pharoah’s Dream Explained
Performer Paul Jones / Gordon Waller / Tim Rice
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice
Album Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat EMI CC242
Track 10

Title Love verses from Song of Solomon
Performer Joyful Company of Singers/City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Pamela Helen Stephen/Mark Tucker
Composer Grainger
Album Chandos CHAN 9653
Track 4

Title 5 Phrases from the song of Solomon
Performer Nancy Armstrong, sop
James Russell Smith (perc)
Composer Thomson
Album Mostly About Love - Classical Arts NR250CD
Track 8-12

Title Solomon Song from 3d opera
Performer Gabriele Ramm The König Ensemble / Jan Latham-König
Composer Weil
Album The Threepenny Opera – Capriccio 600581
Track 21

Track 17
Title Ezekiel saw the wheel
Performer Louis Armstrong & the Angels with the Sy Oliver Choir
Composer McGimsey
Album Louis and the Good Book MCA MCLD 19379 1
Track 17