Choral works coming up by Arvo Part, Giovani Palestrina, Samuel Barber, Tomas Luis de Victoria, along with music from Schubert, Donizetti, Holst, Boyce, Strauss . . . it' s a packed program this week!
TTF Program 336 January 2, 2022 Holst: The Evening Watch (The Holst Singers, dir. Hilary Davan Wetton) 4:42 Mendelssohn: Symphony #2 in d major (English String Orchestra, dir. William Boughton) 9:29 Palestrina: Tota pulchra (The Cambridge Singers, dir. John Rutter) 4:14 Boyce: Symphony #8 in d minor (English String Orchestra, dir. William Boughton) 10:44 Part: The Beatitudes (The Choir of Lincoln College Oxford, dir. Benjamin Nicholas) 6:55 Debussy: La plus que lente (ChromaDuo -- Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald, guitars) 5:03 Dvorak The Noon Witch, op. 108 (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, dir. Stephen Gunzenhauser) 13:01 Hour Two Ravel: Trois Chansons (The Cambridge Singers, dir. John Rutter) 5:44 Barber: Reincarnations, op. 16 (Kansas City Chorale, dir. Charles Bruffy) 8:36 Delius: Briggs Fair: An English Rhapsody (Halle Orchestra, dir. Sir John Barbirolli) 18:15 Tomas Luis de Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium (Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-François de Versailles) 14:13 Donizetti: âO nubeâ (Beverly Sills, soprano; John Alldis Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra, dir. Aldo Ceccato) 7:56 Hour Three Schubert: Auf dem See (Jessye Norman, soprano; Geoffrey Parsons, piano) 3:24 Strauss: Symphonia Domestica (Staatskapelle Weimar, dir. Antoni Wit) 47:00
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