Archbishop Mark Coleridge’s Musical selections (full list) as supplied for the Music Lovers Choice Program on 4MBS – broadcast September 5, 2015
Requiem
Introit and Kyrie – Verdi (Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti, Talvela)
Sequence – Mozart
Offertorium – Verdi (Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti, Talvela)
Pie Jesu – Duruflé
In Paradisum – Fauré
Bach – Matthew Passion (Beginning and end)
Italy (from north to south)
Venice – Gabrieli (Dulcis Iesu), Monteverdi (Ave Maris Stella from Vespers)
Florence – O mio babbino caro (Puccini)
Rome – Vissi d’arte (Puccini – Callas), Palestrina (Tu es Petrus)
Stravinsky – Rite of Spring (last section [26:40 or 29:30])
Sicily – Ah non credea mirarti (Bellini – Callas)
France
Saint-Saëns – Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Callas)
Bizet – Au fond du temple saint (Pavarotti – Ghiaurov)
Chopin – Nocturne op 9 no 1
Satie – Trois Gnossiennes
Contemporary
Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalm 23
Arvo Pärt – Beatitudes
John Tavener – The Lamb
“I chose these songs, in no particular order, because of:
- The importance of the human voice
- The religious character of much of the music
- The theme of death
- The Latin world (especially Italy and France)”