The representative work from the BBC Promenade Concerts is Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings", from this season's Prom 32 (August 12 concert. Here, the music appears in the 8-part motet form, Agnus Dei. The organ transcription is presented in the August 18 edition of Mixed Up Class.
Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) Virgil Thomson: The plow that broke the plains (CD: Thomson: The River (Philharmonia Virtuosi) / The Plow that Broke the Plains) Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (CD: Stravinsky: Le Première partie: Sacre du printemps) Jeux des cités rivales Cortège du Sage Danse de la terre (Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez) William Walton: Suite from Henry V (CD: Walton: Overture Belshazzar's Feast) Passacaglia Charge and battle scene Touch her sweet lips and part (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn) Hermann Schroeder: Praeludium (CD: Rondo: Works for (Robert Murray, violin; Violin & Organ; Vol. Ardyth Lohuis, organ) 2)
Herbert Howells: Behold, O God our defender (CD: The St. (Choir of St. Paul's Paul's Service) Cathedral; John Scott) Leo Sowerby: And they drew nigh (CD: Choral Music (Choir of Trinity Church, of Leo Sowerby) Wall Street; Larry King) Thomas Tallis: Verily, verily I say unto you (CD: The Complete (The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips) English Anthems) Thomas Tallis: O sacrum convivium (CD: Tallis: Mass for (Oxford Camerata; Jeremy Summerly) Four Voices / Motets) Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium (CD: Fauré / (Choir of Trinity College, Duruflé / Messiaen) Cambridge; Richard Marlow) César Franck: Panis angelicus (CD: Allegri: Miserere) (Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Richard Marlow) Ralph Vaughan Williams: O taste and see (CD: Allegri: Miserere) (Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Richard Marlow) William Byrd: O sacrum convivium (CD: Motets and Mass (Theatre of Voices; Paul Hillier) for Four Voices) Dmitru Shostakovich: The Gadfly (Suite), Op. 97a (CD: Shostakovich: Nocturne Symphony No. 1 / Folk Festival Orchestra Pieces) (Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra) Aaron Copland: Old American songs (CD: Copland: Old The boatman American Songs) The dodger Long time ago Simple gifts I bought me a cat (Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Jerold D. Ottley) Leo Sowerby: Come, Holy Ghost (CD: Choral Music (Choir of Trinity Church, of Leo Sowerby) Wall Street; Larry King)
J. S. Bach: Preambule (from Partita no. 5) (CD: The Swingle (The Swingle Singers; Ward Swingle) Singers: Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?) Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei (CD: Allegri: Miserere) (Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Richard Marlow) Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (CD: Knoxville: (Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Orchestra Summer of 1915) of St. Luke's; David Zinman) Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été (CD: Berlioz: Les Nuits Le Spectre de la rose d'Été / Fauré: Pélleas (Elly Ameling, soprano; Atlanta et Mélisande) Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw) Aaron Copland: Ring-a-ching chaw (CD: Copland: Old (Mormon Tabernacle Choir; American Songs) Jerold D. Ottley) Théodore Dubois: Toccata (CD: Great Toccatas) (Marie-Claire Alain, organ) Fanfare II (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ)
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