Piping Up! Organ Concerts at Temple Square | November 02, 2020

welcome to piping up presented by the tabernacle choir at temple square i'm your host luke howard these organ concerts are streamed live every monday wednesday and friday at noon mountain time and previous episodes of piping up are also available for on-demand viewing on the tabernacle choirs facebook page and youtube channel and you can find out more information about this concert series including downloadable program listings for this week's episodes at tabquire.org piping up the organist for today's concert is richard elliott he opens his program with the prelude to marc antoine charpentier's te deum in d major composed probably during the 1690s in paris charpentier's score was lost for more than 200 years and was only rediscovered in 1953. almost immediately this instrumental preview was put to popular use as a wedding march and as the theme music for the eurovision song contest [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the military-like fanfares in that prelude by charpentier correspond with the theory that he wrote the tidalum to celebrate the french victory at the battle of steenkirk in 1692. our next composer george friedrich handel was unquestionably one of the finest organists of his time but he actually wrote very little organ music he was in his late 40s when he started to compose a series of organ concertos his only major works for the instrument handel played these concertos himself during the intermission breaks in performances of his own oratorios we'll hear now the alla siciliana and presto the final two movements from handel's organ concerto number five premiered during a 1735 revival of his biblical oratorio deborah [Music] [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we just heard richard elliot perform his arrangement of the traditional latter-day saint hymn come come ye saints a melody that has been played at these noon organ concerts for more than a century i don't know if anyone has ever tried to count how many musical settings have been made of the 23rd psalm it might be impossible there are so many and yet each one manages to express some nuance of meaning or understanding that makes it distinct this truly profound psalm has so much to reveal that no one musical setting can even begin to scratch the surface of its substance bible scholars have categorized the psalms of david into several different types psalms of praise psalms of thanksgiving wisdom messianic or royal psalms and psalms of lament in fact more than a third of the 150 psalms in the old testament are laments and according to some scholars the 23rd psalm has one of them we might not be accustomed to thinking of such a confident peaceful text as a lament it completely lacks the anguish and pleading of for example psalm 51 but that might be one of the 23rd psalms greatest strengths the author acknowledges his walk through the valley of the shadow of death and the presence of evil and enemies he knows he's surrounded by trouble but he doesn't fear it his simple earnest faith in a redeemer a shepherd who provides and protects universally is unwavering the lament is surmounted by assurance and peace to me one of the most endearing features of the 23rd psalm is how david speaks of the lord in the third person at the beginning but then switches to the second person in verse four in thinking of his lord he can't help but begin to speak to him directly intimately in gratitude as a friend that disarming simplicity and intimacy is found also in the musical setting of the 23rd psalm known as brother james's heir brother james was james leith bain a scottish minister who lived and worked a little more than a century ago and who had little if any musical training yet the unaffected melody he crafted for the 23rd psalm is one of the sweetest and most heartfelt musical settings of those particularly sweet and heartfelt words it's clear to me through this guideless music that brother james loved his lord and that musical testimony still carries such a message of peace in our own day richard elliott will play now his own arrangement of brother james's heir a setting of the 23rd psalm of david [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] the last of cesar frank's csps poor grand dog is the appropriately titled phenyl in b flat major opus 21 composed sometime in the early 1860s it's dedicated to the french organist louis le february who at the time was considered frank's superior as an organ performer though not as a composer when franz liszt attended the premiere of franxx csps he compared those works to the masterpieces of bach and that helped establish frank as the leader in the french organ establishment this concert concludes now with cesar frank at his most french in the finale in b-flat major opus 21. 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Length: 31min 37sec (1897 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020