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Sunday Morning: Faith

04/04/2010

Faith

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, Faith

Iain Burnside explores the subject of faith in music.

In a programme for Easter Sunday, Iain Burnside explores the wider realm of faith in music, drawing on examples from Beethoven and Holst.

"Faith"

Today is the most important day in the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, and so, building from this great festival, Iain Burnside looks out to the wider realm of "faith" in music, drawing on examples from Beethoven and Holst.

Producer: Lyndon Jones 
Email: sundaymorning@bbc.co.uk
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Janacek: Intrada, Uvod and Kyrie from Glagolitic Mass 
Susan Bullock (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
BBC Music Magazine CD vol 17 no 6 
Tracks 6-8 
7m45s

Erlebach: Held du hast den Feind gebunden
('Hero, you have found the foe' - Cantata for Easter Day)
Les Amis de Philippe
Ludger Rémy (conductor) 
CPO 777 346-2 CD1 
Tracks 11-13 
8m15s

Liszt: Rosario, S670, i) Mysteria gaudiosa, ii), Mysteria dolorosa, iii) Mysteria gloriosa
Zsuzsa Elekes (Liszt's own harmonium)
Hungaraton HCD 12768 
Tracks 5-7
4m10s

Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs 
Easter, I got me Flowers, Love Bade me Welcome, The Call, Antiphon 
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
English Chamber Orchestra
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)
EMI CDM 5655882
Tracks 1-5  
19m3s

Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major, op. 82, (4th movement)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Jorma Panula (conductor)
Finlandia FACD004 
Track 8
10m5s

Pete Seeger: One Grain of Sand
Odetta (voice, guitar)
Vanguard Masters 2153 
Track 14
2m5s

Bach arr. Uri Caine: Goldberg Variations, Variation 14 
Uri Caine (keyboards)
W&W910 054-2 CD1 
Track 34 
42s

Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op 26, (Second Group)
To Varuna , To Agni, Funeral Chant 
Royal College of Music Chamber Choir 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Osian Ellis (harp) 
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)
Unicorn DKPCD9046 
Track 2
12m11s

Mozart: Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt, K619
Heo Young-Hoon (tenor)
Alberto Bertino (piano)
Naxos 8570897 
Track 10 
7m50s

Trad. arr. Samuel Mabidikane: Namhla Niyabizwa 
South African Church Choir 
Rough Trade RGNET 1099 CD 
Track 1
3m10s

Gubaidulina: Alleluia  (Pt 7 - Da ispolnjatsja usta maja)
Four members of Copenhagen Boys Choir
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Dmitri Kitajenko (conductor)
Chandos 9523
Track 7
5m42s

Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor op 125 (finale)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Karita Mattila (soprano)
Violeta Urmana (mezzo soprano)
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
DG 471 491-2 
Tracks 4-5
22m.

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