Hannah Sloane, cellist of the Eusebius quartet, is this week's special guest. The ensemble has just released a new recording of the music of Erik Korngold, and weâll hear selections from that as well as insights from Ms. Sloane.
Music this week from Bach, Copeland, Finzi, plus two requiems bookending the program from Faure and Durufle, both performed by The Choir of New College, Oxford under the direction of Edward Higginbottom.
TTF Program 339 January 23, 2022
Hour One
Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth (The Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford, dir. Benjamin Nicholas) 5:29
Faure: Requiem (John Bernays, bass; Jeremy Finnis, soprano; The Choir of New College, Oxford; Capricorn; David Burchell, organ; dir. Edward Higginbottom) 32:45
Finzi: Lo, the full, final Sacrifice (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, dir. Graham Ross) 14:49
Hour Two
Parsons: 16th century Ave Maria (St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, dir. Gerre Hancock) 4:10
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing, op. 11 (Eusebius Quartet) 10:11
Telemann: Divertimento (Musica Antique Koln, dir. Reinhard Goebel) 11:03
Hour Three
Durufle: Requiem (The Choir of New College, Oxford; Capricorn (instrumentalists); David Burchell, organ; dir. Edward Higginbottom) 37:00
Bach: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra #4 in a major (Glenn Gould, piano; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; dir. Vladimir Golschmann) 14:00 ish
A bit of choral fun now to end the show and Ching-a-Ring by Aaron Copeland.
Copeland: Ching-a-Ring (The Elora Festival Singers, dir. Noel Edison) 1:32
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