For Pentecost Sunday. Part 1 of Mahler’s 8th Symphony follows the text of the hymn “Veni, Creator Spiritus.” Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with the Vienna concert choir and the Vienna Opera choir.
Tag Archives: Classical
Easter Music & Choral Finale & Mahler 2nd
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection,” Finale with Vocal Score. Conducted by Maris Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, soloists Bernarda Fink and Ricarda Merbeth.
Pulcherrima Rosa & Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
Pulcherrima Rosa, 15th Century Motet, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble with Jan Garbarek accompanying on tenor sax, Jesus College, Cambridge (1994). There was a whole album with Jan Garbarek and Hilliard called Officium, on ECM records. Youtubes with anything from that label are blocked, but fortunately we have this live performance.
“Pulcherrima Rosa” (The Most Beautiful Rose)
Pulcherrima rosa de spina floruit
Ex flore germinosa lilium genuit
Servans pudorem ex virgineo more
Peperit factura factura factorem.
Virgo singularis te nulla dignior
Fulgens stella maris luna lucidior
Sic succuristi regina mundo tristi
Eve matris sic quae noxam que solvisti.
Esto nobis grata tis aput filium
Mater advocata post hoc exilium
Nos per iuvamen pater natus ac flamen
Tuum mater virgo solvat omnes.
Amen.
Most Beautiful Rose, blooming from a thorn
From the budding flower, a Lily born
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator
Unique Virgin, no-one is worthy of you
Gleaming Star of The Sea, Light and The Moon
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator
Such succour Queen of this sad World
And Mother of Eve who lightens our punishment
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator
Freely for us, beside your Son, Mother and witness
After this Earthly exile
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator.
Amen.
Bach & Adagio & Easter
J.S. Bach, Adagio from Easter Oratorio (BWV 249). Kai Rapsch (oboe) with Salzburg Orchester Solisten, recorded in Lienz, Austria.
Easter Overture & Rimsky Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture: Overture on Liturgical Themes (also known as the Great Russian Easter Overture), by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, performed by the St. Louis Orchestra, directed by Leonard Slatkin. Happy Easter!
Haydn & Gloria & Sunday Music
Gloria from Haydn’s Missa Brevis in B-flat major (also known as Missa Brevis of Saint John of God, and Little Organ Mass). Performers are unidentified.
Crown of Roses & Tchaikovsky & Sunday Music
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Legend (The Crown of Roses),” sung by Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short, performed at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia (2012).
Sunday Music & Rachmaninoff & Our Father
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, “The Lord’s Prayer,” from the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, performed by Russian State Symphony Cappella, directed by Valery Polyansky (2012).
Sunday Music & Eric Whitacre & Alleluia
Eric Whitacre, “Alleluia,” performed Eric Whitacre Singers for Eric Whitacre’s album Water Night.
What Do You Do for an Encore? 