Portions of the program commemorate the Christian Feast of Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit, as chronicled in the the Book of Acts.
In the final hour of this program, the birthday anniversary of the legendary lied singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925) is observed with several selections performed by him.
Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) Charles Ives: Central Park in the dark (CD: Ives: (Gulbenkian Orchestra; Orchestra Works) Michel Swierczewksi) Gabriel Fauré: Nocturnes, nos. 1-5 (CD: Fauré: The (Kathryn Stott, piano) Complete Music for Piano) Paul Creston: Gregorian chant for string orchestra (CD: Roy Harris: (New York Chamber Folksong Symphony) Orchestra; Arthur Lief)
Charles Villiers Stanford: Coelos ascendit hodie (CD: All Creation (The Princeton Singers; John Bertalot) Rejoices: English Cathedral Choral Music) Judith Weir: Ascending into Heaven (CD: English Anthems) (Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Stephen Cleobury) Alec Wyton: Rowthorn ("Lord, you give the Great (CD: Choral and Organ Commission") Music of Alec Wyton) (Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street; Owen Burdick) Richard Marlow (arr.): Veni Creator (CD: Come, Holy Ghost) (Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Richard Marlow) Josquin Desprez: Veni Sancte Spiritus (CD: Desprez: Motets, (Choir of New College, Antiphons and Oxford; Edward Higginbottom) Sequences) Franz Schubert: Rosamunde (CD: Schubert: Ballet music no. 2 Rosamunde) (Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur) Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine (CD: Fauré: Requiem) (Winchester Cathedral Choir; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; David Hill) Canticum creatorum (CD: Saint Francis and (Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble) the Minstrels of God) Harold Friedell: Draw us in the Spirit's tether (CD: Praise the Lord) (Choir of St. Thomas Church; Gerre Hancock)
Ramon Noblem: El flautista alegre (CD: The Eule Organ (James Welch, organ) of St. Nikolai Berlin-Spandau) Maurice Duruflé: Prélude, Adagio et Chorale Varié sur (CD: Duruflé: le Veni Creator Intégrale de (Olivier Latry) l'Oeuvre pour Orgue) Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (CD: Schubert: Die (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, schöne Müllerin) baritone; Gerald Moore, piano) Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (CD: Mahler: Lieder (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; eines fahrenden Symphonie-Orchester des Bayrischen Gesellen, etc.) Rundfunks; Rafael Kubelik) Gustav Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (CD: Geistliche (Vocalensemble Landsberg; Karl Zepnik) Chormusik der Romantik) Every time I feel the Spirit (CD: Mix Well!) (The Gentlemen of St. John's)
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