Vespers

Russian early music, and a little not-so-early music. With special guests, Laura and Adam.

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Byzantine Chant! Featuring works from Kassia, the most prominent female composer of Byzantine music.

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Music for wining and dining in the 18th century court. Featuring Telemann’s major work Tafelmusik (comparable to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos) and music from Johann Schein (16th/17th century).

Please excuse the last remaining minute or so noise from Crisis!,

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Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, and the elusive Francesco Scarlatti.

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January 14, 2010

Recordings from UGA Ensemble Collegium Musicum + Glenn Gould’s masterful performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

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Yes, Christmas has passed, but it’s still cold outside. 

Christmas Vespers Part I: Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral

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Part II: Everything Else (featuring some Chanticleer madness)

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“The wild, rising wind starts wrestling the sun.

The leaves from the linden alight on the earth.

The grass that was green turns to gray in the field;

All ripens and rots that had risen that spring

Thus the year all its yesterdays yields in the end.

The whirling, cold wind of the winter then starts

      To din.

   But not before the moon

   Of Michaelmas moves in

   Does Gawain glean how soon

   His bold quest must begin.”

(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 525-535)

Spem in Alium and Salve Intemarata performed by Oxford Camerata

Gaude Glorioso and O Nata Lux De Lumine performed by The Cardinall’s Musick

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Excerpts from Fiori Musicali by Girolamo Frescobaldi and Symphoniae Sacrea I and II by Giovanni Gabrieli

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It’s Monteverdi thyme. L’Orfeo, Acts I and II

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Started with some Italian Renaissance, ended up in Spain …

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass

Gregorio Allegri, Miserere

Tomas Luis de Victoria, Motets