Nov 20, 2009 | WDC: 55.4 °F
Celebrating the best in choral music.
Tune in on Sundays at 9:00 pm for a wide variety of classical choral music from Washington and beyond — from perennial favorites to new discoveries, from Gregorian Chant to the present. Programmed by Classical WETA Music Director, David Ginder.
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November 22, 2009, 9:00 pm
Myung-Whun Chung conducts a Gabriel Faure masterpiece--his Requiem. Plus we welcome Thanksgiving week with William Billings performed by His Majestie's Clerkes.
Featured performances:
Gabriel Faure: Requiem
DG 459 365
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
Chorus and Orchestra of the Saint Cecilia Academy
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
William Billings: Hear My Pray'r; Rutland; David's Lamentation
Harmonia Mundi 3957048
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier, conductor
November 29, 2009, 9:00 pm
As we think about changing weather, Rene Jacbos conducts Haydn's oratorio on the matter--The Seasons.
Featured performances:
Joseph Haydn: The Seasons
Harmonia Mundi 901829-30
Marlis Petersen, soprano
Werner Gura, tenor
Dietrich Henschel, baritone
RIAS Chamber Choir
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rene Jacbos, conductor