To Mars And Beyond

Collecting belligerent and beatific samples from a sonorous universe of contrasted musics old and new.

Program Broadcast dates:

• October 21, 1996

Music played in the program

SWEELINCK: Variations on Est-ce Mars? –E. Power Biggs (1958 Flentrop/Busch Hall, Harvard University) Col MS-6337 (out-of-print)

BACH: 2 Chorale-preludes (Nun danket alle Gott, S. 657; Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf, S. 617); Allegro, from Trio Sonata No. 4 in e, S. 528 –Kim Heindel (1727 König/Steinfeld Abbey, Germany) Gasparo CD-321

HOLST: Mars, the Bringer of War, from The Planets –Peter Sykes & Victoria Wagner (1935 Skinner/Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia) Raven CD-380

CAURROY: Fantasie on Un jeune fillette. MATTER: Fantasie on Von Gott will ich nicht lassen –Bert Matter (1642 Bader/Saint Walburgskerk, Zutphen, The Netherlands) Musica Waldburga CD-91001

BACH: 2 Chorale-preludes (Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, S. 658; Komm, Heiliger Geist, S. 651) –Christopher Herrick (1982 Metzler/Jesuit Church, Lucerne, Switzerland) Hyperion 2CD-67071/2

DURUFLÉ: Suite, Op. 5 –Mary Preston (1992 Fisk/Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas) Gothic CD-49079 (Gothic Records)