Homage to RIA BOLLEN, contralto | Hommage aan Ria Bollen
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741)
from Gloria in D, RV 589 (ca 1716)
– Qui sedes
– Domine Deus
Berner Kammerchor; Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim; Jörg Ewald Dähler, conductor
Studio recording, Bern Minster, December 1977
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
from St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Christian Friedrich Henrici [Picander]) (ca 1728)
– Recitative and Aria: Buss und Reu
– Aria: Erbarme dich
Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam; Theo Olof, violin; Felix de Nobel, conductor
Live recording, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, March 31, 1974
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
from Stabat Mater, Hob XXbis (1767)
Fac me vere
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk; Richard Kraus, conductor
Live recording, Herkulessaal, Munich, ’18th Internationale Musikwettbewerb der ARD’, September 19, 1969)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809–1847)
from Elijah (Elias), Op. 70 (Julius Schubring) (1846)
Weh ihnen, dass sie von mir weichen!
BRT Chamber Orchestra; Frits Celis, conductor
Live recording, Studio 4 of the Flagey Radio Building, Brussels, March 2, 1969
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)
Alto Rhapsody (Rhapsodie für eine Altstimme, Männerchor und Orchester), Op. 53
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) (1869)
BRT Symfony Orchestra; Members of the BRT Radio Choir; Léonce Gras, conductor
Studio recording, ‘Amerikaans Theater’ (the American pavillion of Expo 58), Brussels, July 12, 1971
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)
from Petite messe solenelle (1863)
Agnus Dei
Heidi Hendrickx and Levente Kende, piano; Leopold Sluys, harmonium; BRT Radio Choir; Vic Nees, conductor
Live recording, Sint Martin’s, Sint Truiden [Belgium], June 27, 1978
OTTORINI RESPIGHI (1879–1936)
Il Tramonto – Poemetto lirico (Roberto Ascoli, after Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1914)
Soloists of the Belgian Chamber Orchestra; Georges Maes, conductor
Live recording, Auditorium University of Ghent, January 13, 1972
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)
from Symphony #3 in d minor (1895–1896)
Sehr langsam. Misterioso. ‘O Mensch gib acht!’ (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Live recording, St Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Festival of Flanders, September 12, 1978
AUGUST DE BOECK (1865-1937)
Het Kerksken van ten Lande / The Little Country Church (Maurits Sabbe, after a French poem by Paul Fierens) (ca 1918)
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