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7:00 pm
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12:00 am
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9:00 am
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12:00 pm
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4:15 pm
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Program Schedule

For The God Who Sings

Sunday 11:00pm - 1:00am with Stephen Watkins

Music for the spirit, from centuries of tradition.

Coming Up

Light of Life

Sun 26 Mar

Elgar's oratorio tells of sight, insight and a poultice of mud, while the guru of 15th C European music binds two chants around an angel's announcement that would change the world.

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The Well

Sun 19 Mar

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27 days left

Familiarity and rarity, water and walking sticks, truth and tale on St Joseph's Day bring music to Jacob's Well.

Nicodemus

Sun 12 Mar

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20 days left

3:16! It's a slogan, but more. Bach and some of his forebears unravel the story of Nicodemus and re-wrap it with one of the Psalter's favourite songs.

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For The God Who Sings with Stephen Watkins

11:00pm

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV68 Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (God so loved the world)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Lisa Larsson (soprano), Panajotis Iconomou (baritone), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Soli Deo Gloria SDG 121

13'45

Sarasate, Pablo de

Carmen Fantasy

Joshua Bell (violin), Samuel Sanders (piano)

Presenting Joshua Bell (DECCA)

10'13

Baštiks, Viktors

Jo tik Joti Dievs (God so loved the world)

Versija

Madara MKCD01

3'08

Buxtehude, Dieterich

Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet BuxWV5

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Johannette Zomer (soprano), Ton Koopman (conductor)

Challenge CC72250

7'50

Bizet, Georges

Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers): Au fond du temple saint

RCA Victor Orchestra, Jussi Bjørling (tenor), Robert Merrill (baritone), Renato Cellini (conductor)

Jussi Bjørling: The Pearl Fishers Duet (RCA GD87799)

4'46

Schelle, Johann

Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet

Musica Fiata, La Capella Ducale, Roland Wilson (conductor)

cpo 999 841-2

13'47

Horowitz, Vladimir

Variations on a Theme from Bizet's Carmen

Yuja Wang (piano)

3'31

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV174 Ich liebe den Höchsten von gamzem Gemüte (I love the Almighty with all my heart)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Christoph Genz (tenor), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Panajotis Iconomou (baritone), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Soli Deo Gloria SDG 121

21'01

Stainer, John

The Crucifixion: God so loved the world

Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, George Guest (conductor)

Decca 425 849-2

4'01

Rutter, John

I will lift up mine eyes

City of London Sinfonia, The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)

Collegium COLCD 514

7'10

Pärt, Arvo

Kanon Pokajanen (Canon of Repentance): Ode 3

Capella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss (conductor)

Harmonia mundi HMU 905274

11'22

Tavener, John

I will lift up mine eyes (Ps.121)

Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, John Scott (conductor)

Hyperion CDA66439

5'51

Pärt, Arvo

Wallfahrtslied (Pilgrim’s song – Ps.121)

Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)

ECM 472 080-2

8'49

Walford Davies, Henry

A Short Requiem: Levavi oculos (Ps.121)

Truro Cathedral Choir, Christopher Gray (conductor)

Regent REGCD451

1'59

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV176 Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding (There is a contrary and daring things about people’s hearts)

Bach Collegium Japan, Peter Kooij (bass), Yukari Nonoshita (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)

BIS SACD 1571

11'11

For The God Who Sings with Stephen Watkins

11:00pm

Rutter, John

A prayer of St Patrick

City of London Sinfonia, Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)

Collegium COLCD 514

1'30

Mendelssohn, Felix

Psalm 95 Komm, lasst uns anbeten Op46 (Come, let us bow down and kneel before the Lord our maker)

Chamber Choir of Europe, Petra Labitzke (soprano), Isabell Müller, Daniel Sans (tenor), Philharmonie Reutlingen, Nicol Matt (conductor)

Brilliant Classics 99997

22'35

Pärt, Arvo

The deer’s cry

Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor)

ECM 2466

4'10

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata BWV181 Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister (Scatterbrains and shallow people)

Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Lisa Larsson (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor), Klaus Mertens (Bass), Ton Koopman (conductor)

Erato 3984 23141-2

13'43

Trad

Venite adoremus-Venite exsultemus Domino

Niederaltaicher Scholaren, Konrad Ruhland (conductor)

Sony SK53977

4'02

Bennett, William Sterndale

The woman of Samaria Op44: God is a spirit

St Paul’s Cathedral Choir, Sir John Dykes Bower (conductor)

Warner 50999 0 84640 2 6

3'02

Vitols, Jazeps

Jesus at the Well

Latvian Radio Choir, Janis Sprogis (tenor), Aivars Krancmanis (baritone), Valdo Dzene, Talivaldis Deksnis, Sivards Klava (conductor)

Campion RRCD 1341

7'31

Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von

Litany of St Joseph

Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel (conductor)

Harmonia mundi HMC 901667

13'16

Pärt, Arvo

Kanon Pokajanen (Canon of Repentance): Ode 4

Capella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss (conductor)

Harmonia mundi HMU 905274

6'49

Rore, Cipriano de

Ave Regina Caelorum

Manfred Cordes, Weser-Renaissance (conductor)

cpo 999 506-2

4'52

de Lalande, Michel-Richard

Venite, exultemus S58 (Ps95)

Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Ex Cathedra, Natalie Clifton-Griffith (soprano), Jonathan Gunthorpe (baritone), James Mustard (baritone), Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

Hyperion CDA67325

26'32

For The God Who Sings with Stephen Watkins

11:00pm

Paulus, Stephen

Gabriel’s message

Choir of Royal Holloway, Rupert Gough (conductor)

Hyperion CDA68110

4'41

Reading

Rosary Psalter; Introduction to The Annunciation

Timothy West (reader)

Avie AV0038

1'41

Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von

Rosary sonatas: Annunciation

Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), David Roblou, Paula Chateaunerf (theorbo), Richard Tunnicliffe (viola da gamba)

Avie AV0038

6'08

Plainchant

Ave regina celorum

Cut Circle, Jesse Rodin (conductor)

Musique en Wallonie MEW 1578

1'47

Du Fay, Guillaume

Missa Ecce ancilla Domini/Beata es Maria (Behold the Handmaiden of the Lord)

Cut Circle, Jesse Rodin (conductor)

Musique en Wallonie MEW 1578

28'12

Melgás, Diolo Dias

Ille homo (The man called Jesus made a paste)

Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown (conductor)

Hyperion CDA66715

2'00

Elgar, Edward

The Light of Life Op.29

London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Linda Finnie, Arthur Davies (tenor), Judith Howarth (soprano), Richard Hickox (conductor)

Chandos CHAN 9208

50'00