Medieval depiction of the abbess and composer Hildegard of Bingen writing as she receives divine inspiration.
Tonight #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical marks #InternationalWomensDay by featuring a woman composer, Hildegard of Bingen, and women artists. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT to hear Sequentia, Anonymous 4, and Trio Mediaeval. #HildegardVonBingen #WomensHistoryMonth
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On this final Sunday of February, WETA Classical's Choral Showcase features Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Vigil). Steven Fox conducts The Clarion Choir. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. #ChoralShowcase #Rachmaninoff #WETAClassical
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This evening #WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase will be featuring J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor performed by Pygmalion and conducted by Raphaël Pichon. I'm going to post a link to a review of the performance in the comments. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST, choral fans. weta.org/fm/features/...
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Angels Entertaining the Holy Child (painting by Marianne Stokes)
Heavenly! On #WETAClassical, tonight's Choral Showcase theme is Christmas Around the World, and Bill Bukowski will be offering music from an array of artists, composers, cultures, and eras. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. #ChoralShowcase #Christmas
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Painting of Judas Maccabaeus from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
For the first night of #Hanukkah, #WETA Classical’s #ChoralShowcase is featuring George Frideric Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, which “recounts the story of a successful revolt against religious persecution by an occupying power.” Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT.
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Mary in a Rose Garden by Martin Schongauer
Tonight on WETA Classical, Choral Showcase is devoted entirely to Benjamin Britten's choral works for the season: A Boy Was Born, Saint Nicholas, and A Ceremony of Carols. Tune in or stream beginning at 9. #Britten #ACeremonyOfCarols #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
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The Annunciation by John William Waterhouse
WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase has a rich array of music for this first Sunday of #Advent, with works by #Bach, #Charpentier, and #Praetorius. The conductors include Jeannette Sorrell. Performers include Apollo's Fire. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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Sunlight streaming onto a path in the woods in autumn. Photo credit: Sven Lachmann from Pixabay.
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand, which takes its text in part from a Latin hymn and in part from Goethe's Faust. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EST.
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Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features first Zoltan Kodaly's Missa Brevis and then Antonin Dvorak's Mass in D Major, Op. 86. I can't wait to hear them in succession. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST. #Dvorak #Kodaly #ChoralMusic #SundayNight
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A field of red poppies and the following quote from a poem by Robert Laurence Binyon: “At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical remembers those lost in World War I. The Clarion Choir will sing Kastalsky’s Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes, and the London Symphony Chorus will perform The Spirit of England by Elgar. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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A woodland path in autumn with the sun streaming down
On this All Souls’ Day, WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase is devoted to Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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#AllSoulsDay #WETAClassical #ChoralShowcase #Verdi #Requiem
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT for Serenade to Music, the Mass in G, Five Mystical Songs, and Toward the Unknown Region. #VaughanWilliams #CorydonSingers
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Interior of the cathedral at Lucca, Italy (credit: Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay)
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely Italian: First up is Giacomo Puccini's Messia di Gloria, plus choruses from Madama Butterfly and Turandot. Then there's the Regina Coeli from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Tune in or stream at 9 EDT.
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Tonight on #ChoralShowcase, @WETAClassical host Bill Bukowski will mark #IndigenousPeoplesDay with two settings of the Mass: a Mass of the Americas by Frank LaRocca and Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT.
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#ChoralShowcase is back again this evening on WETA Classical. Bill Bukowski's special focus is the conductor Matthew Best, who founded the Corydon Singers. Hear their recordings of works by Brahms, Britten:, Bruckner, Howells, and Mendelssohn at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
A statue of an angel pointing toward the sky. Photo credit: NoName_13 from Pixabay.
Be comforted, inspired, or intrigued (or perhaps all three) when #WETA_Classical host Bill Bukowski presents requiem Masses from both Mozart and Salieri on tonight's #ChoralShowcase. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT.
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Sermon on the Mount (detail) by Henrik Olrik. From the altarpiece at Sankt Matthæus Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Featured on WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase this evening: César Franck’s Les Béatitudes, an oratorio based on the Sermon on the Mount and written in a tumultuous time. It carries a message of justice, mercy, and hope. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #WETA #ChoralShowcase
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Stained glass windows at the Washington National Cathedral
For musical inspiration this Sunday night, WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase will offer works from across cultures and centuries: Lamentations of Jeremiah II by Tallis; Miserere Mei, Deus S.27 from Delalande; and Miserere by Górecki. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical will feature Messa Paschale (Easter Mass) by the Benedictine abbess Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, a native of Milan who wrote sacred and secular works during the Baroque era. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #WomenComposers
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
I treasure #WETAClassical each day and make a point of sharing #ChoralShowcase previews Sunday nights. Tune or stream at 9 p.m. EDT to hear music of the #Renaissance, specifically Josquin des Prez, Johannes Ockeghem, Cipriano de Rore, and Jean Lhéritier. weta.org/fm/features/...
A field of poppies at sunset
On tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical: #MusicInMemoriam. The works: Martinu's Field Mass and Skylark's Clear Voices in the Dark, blending Poulenc's Figure Humaine and songs of the Civil War. Tune in or stream.#MemorialDay
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Alpine scene with flowers. Photo credit: Elsemargriet from Pixabay.
I look forward to hearing what WETA Classical #ChoralShowcase host Bill Bukowski has to say about this evening’s featured work, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” #Mahler #Resurrection #BrunoWalter #MaureenForrester weta.org/fm/features/...
Mater Dolorosa by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
For this first Sunday in April, WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase is featuring a work appropriate to Holy Week (which begins in seven days), Haydn's Stabat Mater. It will be followed by Mozart's Ave verum corpus. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #Lent
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Empfang des Hochzeitpaares (Reception of the Bridal Couple), an 1850 painting attributed to Theodor Schüz. A newly married couple walk under an arch of greenery.
Here comes the bride! Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on @WETAClassical will be devoted to #WeddingMusic. The composers: Bach, Britten, Stravinsky, and Vaughan Williams. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT.
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The high altar at Washington National Cathedral (photo credit: WikiImages from Pixabay)
I'm Team #ChoralShowcase tonight: WETA Classical host Bill Bukowski is featuring a recording of J. Reilly Lewis and the Cathedral Choral Society's North American premiere of Berlioz's Messe Solennelle. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST. weta.org/fm/features/...
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on WETA Classical is all about the music of praise, namely settings of the Te Deum, and all about the music of two French composers, Bizet and Lully. Tune or stream at 9 p.m. to catch the new recordings Bill Bukowski has for you.
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Getting ready for the first #ChoralShowcase of the new year: The Thirteen Choir's new recording of the "Lost" Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi. You can tune in to WETA Classical on FM in the D.C. area or stream from anywhere: weta.org/fm/features/...
Nativity depicted in stained glass (photo credit: falco from Pixabay)
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on WETA Classical is all about J.S. Bach's first #Christmas in Leipzig. Bill Bukowski will be featuring the #Magnificat in E-flat Major and two Christmas cantatas. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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The Annunciation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
So wonderful to have WETA FM's Choral Showcase devoted entirely to Advent and Christmas music tonight. Most unexpected selections so far: seasonal choral works by Felix Mendelssohn.
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#Advent #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
