Ye Shall Have a Song — June 19, 2020
Derived from a range of outstanding choral music, my themed Playlists are designed to be like concerts, of about an hour in length.
This week’s Playlist heralds the transformational power of music and song with works among others by Bach, Bernstein, Paulus, Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia, and Vaughan Williams’s sumptuous Serenade to Music.
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From The Peaceable Kingdom Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
Have Ye Not Known?
Ye Shall Have a Song
Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning?
Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40:21
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;
And gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of the Lord.
Isaiah 30:29
Performed by American Repertory Singers, conducted by Leo Nestor
There is Sweet Music
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Performed by Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short
Pärt Uusberg (b.1986)
Muusika
Performed by Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir, conducted by Endrik Üksvärav
Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)
When Music Sounds
Performed by True Concord, conducted by Eric Holtan
Hymn to St. Cecilia
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Performed by Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
I. Singet dem Herrn
Performed by Monteverdi Choir, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
From MassLeonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
A Simple Song
Alleluia
Texts
Performed by Alan Titus, baritone; recorded singers; and orchestra,
Conducted by Leonard Bernstein
I’m Gonna Sing ‘Til the Spirit Move in My Heart
Moses Hogan (1957-2003)
Performed by National Lutheran Choir, conducted by David Cherwien
Serenade to Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Performed by Elmer Iseler Singers & Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
Conducted by Peter Oundjian
