2019 Ruffatti Pipe Organ at Buckfast Abbey
2019 Ruffatti Pipe Organ at Buckfast Abbey
The Diapason Magazine

Pondering Penitence #2608

. . . a collection of Lenten music that may help lead to thoughtful introspection.

Hour 1

MENDELSSOHN:  Aus tiefer Not (chorale), Op. 23, no. 1 –Christ Church S chola Cantorum/Stephen Kennedy; David Baskeyfield (2008 GOArt-Yokota/Christ Church, Rochester, NY) Loft 1119

FELIX MENDELSSOHN:  Organ Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 65, no. 3 –Peter Planyavsky (1985 Pirchner/St. Augustine Church, Perchtoldsdorf, Austria) Motette 11281

J. S. BACH:  Aus tiefer Not, BWV 686 –Ute Gremmel-Geuchen (1741 J-A Silbermann/St. Thomas Church, Strasbourg, France) Aeolus 10761

FLOR PEETERS:  Aria, Op. 51 –Roberto Marini (1930 Klais-1988 Pels/Kristus-Koningkerk, Antwerp, Belgium) Brilliant Classics 95637

DAVID McGREGOR:  Ave verum corpus.  CECILIA McDOWALL:  Ash Wednesday.  JESSICA FRENCH:  The Call –Cathedral Choir & Choristers/Maxine Thévenot; Jordyn Tatum, soprano; Laura Chang, violin; Edmund Connolly/Maxine Thévenot (2001 Reuter/Cathedral of St. Johnn, Albuquerque, NM) Raven 202

JOHANN PACHELBEL:  Partita, Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan –Bruce Stevens (1980 Taylor & Boody/Westminster Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, Virginia) Raven 203

Filler – MENDELSSOHN:  Sonata No. 3, 2nd Movement (see above)

Hour 2

J. S. BACH:  Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 –Francesco Cera (2009 Mascioni/Church of St. Maria Assunta, Giubasco, Switzerland) Brilliant Classics 94639

OLIVIER MESSIAEN:  Diptyque –Dame Gillian Weir (1964 Möller/Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC) Decca 484 1435

HERBERT HOWELLS:  Psalm 23.  HOWELLS:  Psalm Prelude, Op. 32, no. 3 (Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death) –Cathedral Choir/Daniel Cook; David Hill (1877 Willis-1970 Harrison/Durham Cathedral, England) Regent 586

CHRISTIAN GEIST:  Aus tiefer Not –Manuel Tomadin (2011 Dell’Orto & Lanzini/Our Lady of Fatima Church, Pinerolo, Italy) Brilliant Classics 95310/16

JOHANN GOTTFRIED MÜTHEL:  Herzlich tut mich verlangen –Matteo Venturini (2008 Ghilardi/St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Pistoia, Italy) Brilliant Classics 95310/21

JAMES MacMILLAN:  Gaudeamus in loci pace –Stephen Farr (1992 Rieger/St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland) Resonus 10266

ANTON HEILLER:  In festo corporus Christi (4 verses) –Charles Maxtone-Smith (2019 Ruffatti/Buckfast Abbey, England) Ad Fontes 014

Filler - MENDELSSOHN: Sonata No. 3/conclusion of 1st movement (see above)

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