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WDAV's weekly offering of classical choral music. The program occasionally features choral groups from the Charlotte region. To check program listings, visit our Playlist Page and search on the date of the program you wish to find. Theresa Woody hosts.
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May 26, 2013
Fruit of May
 Two composers born in May are featured: Gabriel Faure and Johannes Brahms. Accentus and members of the National Orchestra of France are featured in the complete Requiem, Op.48 by Faure. Also featured are Two Motets and a set of songs called Deutsche Volkslieder (German Folksongs) by Brahms.
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May 19, 2013
Songs of Solomon
We explore some of the most beautiful poetry in the Bible, in music written to texts from the enigmatic Song of Solomon, or Song of Songs. Two versions of Flos Campi (I am a Flower of the Field) -- one by Vaughan Williams, and one by Francisco Guerrero -- are featured, along with My Beloved Spake by Purcell. Also, a work by Mark Zukerman sung in Hebrew and dedicated to the marriage of his parents, a lush setting of Pulchra es (You are Beautiful My Love) by Ola Gjeilo, Set me as a Seal by Rene Clausen, and My Beloved is Mine and I am His by B. Daviaoff.
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May 12, 2013
Music of the Spirit: Holst, Henderson, and Hildegard
 Explore music that feeds the spirit, from Christian scripture and Hindu sacred writings. Missa brevis by Ruth Watson Henderson, chant by 12th Century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, and Gustav Holst's settings of hymns from the Rig Veda satisfy the ear while engaging the soul.
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May 5, 2013
Taking Note
 In anticipation of the upcoming concert by The Oratorio Singers of Charlotte and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, we’ll hear the last, choral movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Our featured recording is one of the more recent versions of the Ninth, by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Also, we’ll take note of other new choral releases, including Te Deum by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Miserere by Rudy Tas, and Sanctus and Benedictus from Messe (Mass) by Frank Martin.
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April 28, 2013
Choral Primavera
 New music to reach the WDAV library’s shelves, including the ensemble I Fagiolini performing Ave Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea) by Monteverdi, Agnus Dei from Missa Solemnis by Beethoven, and music from Let God Arise by Handel. Also, In Dedicatione temple, a motet by Francesco Soriano, from the cd Musica Vaticana by the Montreal Studio for Ancient Music.
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April 21, 2013
Spring Song
 We sample choral music written for texts that mention Spring: 16th Century madrigals, selections from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, a short work by Pablo Casals, choruses from The Seasons by Haydn, and songs by Mendelssohn and Holst.
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April 14, 2013
Stile Antico Special
 A program of sacred music featuring the ensemble Stile Antico, in compositions by Nicolas Gombert, Hugh Aston, and William Byrd. Stile Antico’s smooth blend of voices makes this Renaissance music soar and thrill
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April 7, 2013
Hear My Song: Music For Remembering The Holocaust
 Today’s offering observes Rosh Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Mostly choral, with a few selections
for instruments and for solo voice too, today’s mix honors and remembers the victims of the holocaust. We’ll hear music from Vedem, an oratorio by Lori Laitman that tells the story of artists and musicians – and children!—interred at Theresianstadt, many of whose work and lives were cut short. And we’ll hear music by Carlo Sigmund Taube and Viktor Ullmann, two such artists who were lost to the world. Also, the hauntingly beautiful second movement of Gorecki’s Third Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
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March 31, 2013
A Joyful Eastertide
 On this Easter Sunday, music written to celebrate the festival day: choruses from the Easter Oratorio by J.S. Bach, Surgens Jesus by Peter Phillips, and the entire Part III, known as the “Easter Portion” of Handel's oratorio, Messiah.
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March 24, 2013
The Mother's Tears
 Today, in observance of Lent, we hear music from two settings of the text Stabat Mater (The Mother Stood) which has been used for centuries to describe the sorrows of the virgin Mary upon the pain and death suffered by her son. Music from Haydn’s version and the complete Stabat Mater by Scarlatti will express the pathos and emotion of the season.
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