March 16: Irish Connections

In observance of St. Patrick's Day, each hour of this program contains music that is somehow connected with Ireland, the Emerald Isle.


Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) Arthur Sullivan: Symphony in E major ("The Irish") (CD: Arthur Sullivan: (BBC Concert Orchestra; Irish Symphony) Owain Arwel Hughes) Max Reger: Fantasie und Fugue über den Namen B-A-C-H, (CD: Fanfare) Op. 46 (Gerre Hancock, organ) Craig Sellar Lang: Tuba tune (CD: Organ Music from (John Dexter, organ) the Island of Ireland)
Charles Villiers Stanford: Te Deum in B flat (CD: Great Music for (Choir of Westminster Abbey; Great Occasions at The London Brass; Martin Neary) Westminster Abbey) St. Patrick's Breastplate ("I bind unto myself today") (LP: Belfast (Choir of Belfast Cathedral; Cathedral Choir) Jonathan Gregory) J. H. Ossewaarde: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in C (CD: Magnificat and (Choir of St. Thomas Fifth Nunc Dimittis, Vol. Avenue, New York; Gerre Hancock) 13) Aaron Copland: Motets (CD: Bernstein: Have mercy on us, O my Lord Chichester Psalms) Sing ye praises to our King (Corydon Singers; Matthew Best) Julie Gold: From a distance (CD: The Wind (James Galway, flute; Galway Beneath My Wings) Pops Orchestra; Vincent Fanuele) Irish Medley (CD: The Wind Isle of Innisfree Beneath My Wings) I'll take you home again, Kathleen The Rose of Tralee (James Galway, flute; Galway Pops Orchestra; Vincent Fanuele) Johann Sebastion Bach: Mass in B minor (CD: Bach: Mass Qui sedes in B minor) Quoniam tu solus Cum Sancto Spiritu (Manuel Mrasek, boy soprano; Michael George, bass; The King's Consort Choir and Orchestra; Robert King) Johannes Brahms: Zwei Gesänge für eine Altstimme mit (CD: Brahms: Piano Bratsche und Klavier, Op. 91 concerto no. 1 / etc.) Gestillte Sehnsucht (Ann Murray, contralto; Nobuko Imai, viola; London Philharmonic; Wolfgang Sawallisch)
Francis Grier: Thou, O God, art praised in Sion (CD: Francis Grier: (Rodolfus Choir; Ralph Allwood) Twelve Anthems) Turlough O'Carolan: Irish tunes (Concert recording, (Karen Thielen, harp) 31 Oct 1997) The stuttering lovers (CD: Blow the (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Wind Southerly) Phyllis Spurr, piano) I will walk with my love (CD: Blow the (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Wind Southerly) Phyllis Spurr, piano) Down by the Salley Gardens (CD: Blow the (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Wind Southerly) Phyllis Spurr, piano) Wearing of the Green (CD: Arma Lucis) (Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum; Almeda Berkey) Benjamin Britten (arr.): Avenging and Bright (CD: Folksongs) (Peter Pears, tenor; Benjamin Britten, piano) Jan Bender: Variations on "Slane" (CD: Rondo: Works for (Robert Murray, violin; Violin & Organ; Vol. Ardyth Lohuis, organ) 2) The leprehaun (arr. Hughes) (CD: The Last (Ann Murray, mezzo soprano; Rose of Summer) Graham Johnson, piano) Arthur Conahan: Galway Bay (CD: The Last (Ann Murray, mezzo soprano; Rose of Summer) Graham Johnson, piano) Phil the fluter's ball (CD: The Last (Ann Murray, mezzo soprano; Rose of Summer) Graham Johnson, piano) The Roches: The Troubles (CD: The Roches)
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