Sanctuary
Whether it's the rich basso profundo of a Russian Orthodox cantor or Tavener's eerie violin in "Tears of the Angels," a mass by Machaut, Mozart or Martin or the Bach Cantatas series, set your dial for two hours of uplifting music for the spirit and soul.
6:00 am on Sunday (23 Jun 2013)
RUTTER: The Lord is my light and my salvation - Polyphony, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67259)
WALTON: Coronation Te Deum - Wallace Collection, Polyphony/Stephen Layton, James Vivian (org) (Hyperion CDA 67330)
G GABRIELI: Exaudi me Domine - Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel (Harmonia Mundi HMC 80 1954)
RIZZA: Ave generosa - Grace Davidson, Libby Crabtree (sops), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (UCJ 476 6295)
PALESTRINA: Sicut lilium inter spinas - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (UCJ 476 6295)
PÄRT: Summa - Franz Joseph Quartet (ATMA ACD 2 2310)
BIBER: Huc poenitentes; Ne cedite mentes - Gerlinde Sämann, Johanette Zomer (sops), Guillemette Laurens (contralto), Hans Jörg Mammel (ten), Jörg Hempel (bass), Arsys Bourgogne/Pierre Cao (Ambroisie AMB 9936)
BUSNOIS: L'Homme, l'homme; L'Homme armé; Doibt on doubter; On a fait partout crier que chascun se viengne armer; D'un haubregon de fer, from Masses 1-5 based on L'Homme armé - Cantica Symphonia/Giuseppe Maletto (Glossa GCD P 31906)
TRAD arr Marshall: Deep River - Willard White (bass), Graeme McNaught (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8960)
TIPPETT: Go down, Moses, from A Child of our Time - Morag Atchison (sop), Jeffery Chang (bar), University of Auckland Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Auckland University 2011)
K BELL: Te Mea Nui - University of Auckland Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Auckland University 2011)
STROZZI: O Maria - Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop), Concerto Soave (L'Empreinte Digitale ED 13048)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Valiant-for-truth - Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 5083)
TAVENER: Tears of the Angels - Clio Gould (vln), Scottish Ensemble (Linn CKD 085)
BEETHOVEN: Benedictus, from Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 - Primoz Novsak (vln), Luba Orgonasova (sop), Anna Larsson (contralto), Rainer Trost (ten), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Swiss Chamber Choir, Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 74321 87074)
6:00 am on Sunday (30 Jun 2013)
BIEBL: Ave Maria - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics ABC 472 310)
RHEINBERGER: Mass in Eb Op 109 - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)
Three Pieces for cello & organ - Cäcilia Chmel (cello), Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ of Stadtkirche, Winterthur, Switzerland) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1643)
WFE BACH: Vater unser - Adalbert Kraus (ten), Wolfgang Schöne (bass), Stuttgart Bach Collegium, Gedächtniskirche Choir/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.614)
LOCKLAIR: The Peace may be exchanged, from Rubrics - Thomas Trotter (organ at Symphony Hall, Birmingham) (Birmingham Symphony Hall SHCD 3)
JANÁČEK: The Lord's Prayer - Thomas Walker (ten), Ernestine Stoop (harp), Dirk Luijmes (harmonium), Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2097)
TRAD arr Zygel: Prière; TRAD arr Wieder-Atherton: Kaddish - Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (Naïve V 5226)
AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Jerome Op 4/4 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)
HANDEL: I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah - Kerstin Avemo (sop), Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 80 1928.29)
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