Archbishop Mark’s “Desert Island Discs”

Archbishop Mark’s “Desert Island Discs”
God’s people Archbishop Mark Coleridge Archbishop Mark’s “Desert Island Discs”

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)”