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Clara Longstreth writes of this program, “I have never received rapturous praise from singers and audiences alike equal to what has been true for Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Chorus. We sang it in 1990 as the main piece on an all-Martin Centennial Concert, and again in 2008. We now return to this masterpiece in […]
Clara Longstreth writes of this program, “I have never received rapturous praise from singers and audiences alike equal to what has been true for Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Chorus. We sang it in 1990 as the main piece on an all-Martin Centennial Concert, and again in 2008. We now return to this masterpiece in […]
Joseph Haydn’s Part Songs Der Greis and Die Beredsamkeit are miniature masterpieces. One is a lament on aging that the composer took so much to heart that he had the message engraved on his calling card: “Gone is all my strength!” The other is a sly, comic tribute to wine, which makes man eloquent, or […]
Psalms and Celebrations One major work is a Bach motet we have never done because it was not originally attributed to Bach, but to Telemann. More recent scholarship on Jauchzet dem Herrn has secured its place among Bach’s other great motets. It is tuneful, jubilant, and—of course—contrapuntal. Exultate Justi Ludovico Viadana In Exitu Israel Samuel […]
Songs of Serenity and Joy (premiere with brass trio)