November 15, 1999: Transcriptions

The final hour of this program focuses on transcriptions, music originally composed with certain musical voices in mind, then realized by different instrumentation (or human voices) either strictly or freely.


Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) Serge Prokofiev: Concerto no. 2 for violin and (CD: Concertos: orchestra, op. 63 Sibelius / Prokofiev (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Boston No. 2 / Glazunov) Symphony Orchestra; Edward Munch) Modest Mussorgsky: Gnomus (from Pictures at an (CD: Stravinsky: Exhibition) L'oiseau de feu (James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll, / Petrouchka) classical accordions) Aaron Copland: Symphony no. 3 (CD: Copland: Third IV. Molto deliberato (freely at first) Symphony / Music for (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levy) the Theatre)
Kenneth Leighton: Gloria (Sarum Mass) (CD: A sound came (Choir of Wellington from heaven) Cathedral; Philip Walsh) Ned Rorem: Three motets on poems of Gerard Manley (CD: Choral Music by Hopkins 20th Century American (Choir of Trinity Church, Composers) Wall Street; Larry King) Edward Bairstow: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (CD: Anthem: The (Choir of St. Thomas Church, Choral Music of New York; Gerre Hancock) Edward Bairstow) Thomas Tallis: O sacrum convivium (CD: A sound came (Choir of Wellington from heaven) Cathedral; Philip Walsh) Celestial Apparition (CD: Ariel View) (Karen Bentley, violin; Bruce Hanifan, piano) Captain Tobias Hume: Cease leaden slumber (CD: The Summe (Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; of All Delights) À Deux Violes Égales) Robert John: Whoso is tide (CD: The Summe (Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; of All Delights) À Deux Violes Égales) Folksongs (CD: Blow the I know where I'm goin' Wind Southerly) Down by the Salley Gardens Blow the wind southerly (Kathleen Ferrier; Phyllis Spurr, piano) Jocelyn Frances Pook: Blow the wind - Pie Jesu (CD: Anthony Way: (Anthony Way, treble; Choir Wings of a Dove) of Uppingham School; English Sinfonia; Neil Page)
J. S. Bach: Fugue in G minor ("Little") (CD: Bach on the Banjo) (John Bullard, banjo and friends) J. S. Bach (arr. Andrès Segovia): Chaconne (from Violin (CD: The Segovia Partita No. 2) Collection, Vol. 1) (Andrès Segovia, guitar) J. S. Bach (transcribed by Rachmaninoff): Partita in E (CD: Kolja Lessing: major for violin Violin and Piano) (Kolja Lessing, piano) Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs (CD: Trombonology) (Mark Lawrence, trombone; Robin Sutherland, piano) G. F. Handel: Pastoral symphony from Messiah (arr. (CD: Alleluia Psallat) Dryburgh & Chambers) (Peninsula Women's Chorus; Patricia Hennings) Claude Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie (arr. (CD: Stokowski Stokowski) Transcriptions) (The Philadelphia Orchestra; Wolfgang Sawallisch) Aaron Copland (arr. Sanford Doyle): Hoe-down (CD: Sonos (Sonos Handbell Ensemble; Handbell Ensemble) James Meredith) G. F. Handel (arr. John Marsh): `The Grand Halleluiah (CD: For Two to Play) in the Messiah' (Davitt Moroney, Olivier Baumont, harpsichord four hands)
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