A Celebration of Peace Through Music (Live) Orchestra of St. Luke's

• Aaron Copland (1900-1990):
• 1 Fanfare for the Common Man 03:10
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901):
• 2 Messa da Requiem: Sanctus 02:59
• Wojciech Kilar (1932-2013):
• 3 Bogurodzica 02:54
• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010):
• 4 Totus Tuus, Op. 60 08:48
• Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990):
• 5 I. Maestoso ma energico - Allegro molto 03:21
• 6 II. Andante con moto ma tranquillo - Allegro feroce 05:42
• 7 III. Prelude: Sostenuto molto - Peacefully flowing 08:45
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
• 8 I. Un poco maestoso 13:05
• 9 II. Andante sostenuto 09:10
• 10 III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso 05:12
• 11 IV. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo ma con brio 17:34
• Total Runtime 01:20:40

Info for A Celebration of Peace Through Music (Live)

Delos – a long-standing champion of great music’s therapeutic and healing powers – is delighted to release this remarkable musical celebration of peace.

Distinguished conductor Sir Gilbert Levine’s career is particularly notable for his many concerts with major orchestras that have been widely broadcast on PBS. This Jewish musician’s activities have largely focused upon interfaith concerts of spiritually potent music celebrating universal human themes and values.

The performances preserved here – recorded in concert at Washington DC’s DAR Constitution Hall – celebrate the canonization of two recent Popes: John XXIII and John Paul II. This “Pope’s Maestro” became a friend of the latter “Polish Pope,” which led to a series of similar events at the Vatican and elsewhere. The reigning Pope Francis is also honored.

The peace-themed program includes well-known music by Copland, Verdi, Górecki, Bernstein and Brahms. Meticulously recorded and filmed for repeated major-metro domestic PBS broadcasts (also in Europe) through 2017, these masterpieces are heard in glowing renditions by the vaunted Orchestra of St. Luke’s plus the two fine choirs of the Krakow Philharmonic and the Choral Arts Society of Washington.

Erika Rissi, soprano
Nicole Piccolomini, alto
Michael Boyce, tenor
Nemeh Azzan, bass
Theodore Nisbett, treble
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Kraków Philharmonic Chorus
Choral Arts Society of Washington
Gilbert Levine, conductor

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