Cantate Chamber Singers

October 4, 2010, 9:00 pm

Cantate Chamber Singers makes their Front Row Washington debut with Music Director Gisèle Becker in performances recorded at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Norwood Parish, Chevy Chase, MD.

Featured performances:

MASS COMPILATION (from Cantate’s 25th Anniversary program, March 6, 2010)
    1)  Antonín Dvorák: Kyrie from Mass in D Major, Op. 86
    2)  Francis Poulenc:  Gloria from Mass in G
    3)  Frank Martin:  Credo fro Mass for Double Choir
    4)  Zoltán Kodály:  Sanctus/Benedictus from Missa Brevis
    5)  Josef Gabriel Rheinberger:  Agnus Dei from Mass in E-flat Major, Op. 109
        Eric Plutz, organ
FRANCIS POULENC:  Litanies à la Vierge Noire, for women's chorus and organ
BENJAMIN BRITTEN:  Hymn to St. Cecilia
    Deborah Sternberg, soprano solo

MAURICE SAYLOR:  Slumber Songs
    Deborah Sternberg, soprano; Andrew Simpson, piano

ANDREW FOREMAN:  Psalm 69