Playlists

Eric resumes his Playlist series with music to ring in the new year. The program includes a Bach cantata written for New Year's Day, Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year and Beethoven's [...]

Eric concludes his summer Playlist series on this Labor Day weekend with American classics performed by American ensembles, including Barber's poignant Agnus Dei and Lauridsen's sumptuous O [...]

This week's Playlist exemplifies and conveys unadulterated joy, with works by Bach, Whitacre, Vaughan Williams, Britten's ebullient Rejoice in the Lamb and Beethoven's electrifying Gloria from [...]

The music of this week’s Playlist expresses the hope and promise of the dawn of a new day, with works by Bach and Byrd, the African-American spiritual My Lord, What a Morning and the dramatic [...]

The music of this week’s Playlist describes the reviving and renewing power of rain, with a dramatic scene from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, in which Elijah overcomes his adversary and prays for rain on [...]

The music of this week’s Playlist utilizes imagery of water and the heart as sources of life, with music of Barber, Howells, Whitacre, excerpts from Haydn’s The Creation, and an arrangement of [...]

The music of this week's Playlist expresses hope and the assurance of cure for all our ills, with music of Bach, Brahms, African-American spirituals and Jake Runestad's comforting The Hope of Loving.

Eric's Playlist this week considers peacemakers and the potential within all of us to do likewise, with music by Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, and Paulus, from Handel's Messiah and Bob [...]

The music of this week’s Playlist depicts the frolic, serenity and glimmer of the evening with works by Rheinberger, Whitacre and Paulus, Brahms’s merry Ziguenerlieder and more.

This week's Playlist explores the beauty and tenderness of blossoms and meadows with works by Britten, Paulus, Whitacre, Corigliano's setting of Dylan Thomas's Fern Hill and more.