- 05/23 ACO Names Bermel Artistic Director
- 05/21 How to Entice People to the Symphony
- 05/19 Young, Yes; Youthful, Sometimes
- 05/19 Levine Commands Carnegie Hall
- 05/14 Take me out to the … opera?
- 05/13 BBC Proms reports record opening day ticket sales
- 05/07 N'Dour, Saariaho share Polar Music Prize
- 04/26 World Premiere of major new opera Dulce Rosa
- 04/26 EMI Classics and Virgin labels to disappear
- 04/19 Conrad Tao signs exclusively to EMI
- 04/18 Conductor Becomes First Woman to Lead Britain's Proms Finale
- 04/15 Still Searching for the Promised Land
- 04/15 Sir Colin Davis remembered
- 04/14 Sir Colin Davis dies
- 04/13 Stradivarius trees
- 04/13 Stravinsky puts a Spring in your step
- 04/10 SPCO deal brings relief, smiles
- 04/05 Have Some Fun
- 04/04 Montreal without Nagano?
- 04/03 It Takes Brass
- 04/03 Composer, educator Robert Ward dies
- 04/01 Vienna opera director collapses during performance
- 03/26 A foghorn, brass bands and 50 ships
- 03/26 Wigmore Hall, London: Viktoria Mullova, Paolo Giacometti
- 03/21 Rise Stevens, Mezzo-Soprano Star of ‘Carmen,’ Dies at 99
- 03/19 No Secret Formula to Music
- 03/15 Titanic bandmaster's violin found
- 03/13 Vivaldi Boosts Mental Vitality
- 03/11 Beginner's Etiquette Guide: Ballet & Opera
- 03/10 Written on Skin – review
- 03/03 Marie-Claire Alain, Master of the Organ
- 03/03 Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet
- 02/27 Van Cliburn Dies
- 02/24 Mahan Esfahani – review
- 02/24 Wolfgang Sawallisch, 1923-2013
- 02/15 Britten’s War Requiem
- 02/11 Classical Grammy Awards
- 02/08 Oregon Symphony's James DePreist Dies
- 02/07 Warner Music Group Buys EMI
- 02/04 Work performed for the first time in 400 years
- 01/30 S.F.S.: The Rule of Spain and Britain
- 01/25 BBC Radio 3 - 'The Choir'
- 01/25 Quatuor Diotima – review
- 01/18 Royal Opera House- The Minotaur – review
- 01/14 Carolina Ballet: Lynn Taylor-Corbett
- 01/14 NC H.I.P.* Music Festival
- 01/11 WCPE Announcers: Top CD Picks of 2012
- 01/03 Royal Opera Live
WCPE Features: Great Sacred Music
Tune in every Sunday morning for over 3 hours of inspirational music! Starting at 7:30 it's Sing for Joy, followed by Great Sacred Music at 8am (Eastern).
Sundays at 7:30am (Eastern)
Wake up to the inspiring music with Sing for Joy, featuring choral music from around the nation.
Every week Sing for Joy is heard on over 250 radio stations nationwide. A defining trait of Sing For Joy is basing each week's music on the scriptural lessons specified in the common lectionary. Visit the Sing for Joy website.
Sundays from 8am-11am (Eastern)
Beautiful and inspirational music from WCPE, with your host Rob Kennedy.
“For Bach all music is sacred. The tones do not die but ascend to God as praise too deep for utterance.” — from Bach by Albert Schweitzer
Spring Highlights:
March 3 —
Music for the penitential season of Lent sets
powerful texts of contrition and prayers for
forgiveness. Allegri’s Miserere Mei and Tallis’s
Lamentations are among a dozen Lenten works
on this week’s playlist.
March 10 —
John Scott and the choir of St. Thomas Church,
New York City, perform Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem.
March 17 —
We honor St. Patrick today with the playing of
Apostle of Ireland, a medieval office for St. Patrick, sung for us by Canty.
March 24 —
The solemnity of The Crucifixion by Sir John Stainer
concludes our Palm Sunday show, which begins
with shouts of “Hosanna to the Son of David.”
March 31 —
Easter Triumph! Easter Joy! is the theme of our
festive Easter program. Music for organ and brass
and hymns with soaring descants and jubilant
anthems celebrate the feast of the resurrection.
April 7 —
Ensemble Pygmalion sings Bach’s Mass in B Minor
in the composer’s 1733 version.
April 14 —
Anúna, the national choir of Ireland, will sing several sacred selections from their highly acclaimed
CD The Best of Anúna.
April 21 —
The Susanne van Soldt Manuscript dates from
1599. We shall hear several selections from this
collection of thirty-three psalms and songs owned
by a young Dutch lady who lived in London.
April 28 —
Music for organ and brass is a feature of most
great religious occasions. This morning’s show
promises to be an audio spectacular
May 5 —
Which men’s vocal group do you enjoy most?
Chanticleer? The monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz?
Turtle Creek Chorale? You will hear all of these
and more on our The Glory of Men’s Voices show.
May 12 —
The Glory of Women’s Voices features Anonymous
4, Trio Medieval, and Malle Babbe, among other
renowned women’s choral ensembles.
May 19 —
From King’s College, Cambridge, to the Vienna
Choir Boys and the American Boychoir, our sampling of The Glory of Boys’ Voices includes the
best of the best.
May 26 —
You will hear much organ music on this edition
of Great Sacred Music as we explore The Glory of
the Organ. Instruments old and new showcase the
tonal palette and immense variety of compositions written for the organ over a span of four
centuries.
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