Sunday Classics

Sunday Classics – February 23, 2025

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Explorations deep into the language of music. There’s a lot that’s Bach, and a lot that’s not. Hosted by Sherry Gendleman and Anthony Bonet.

Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Marcel Pérès, Ensemble Organum Anon: Filie Jerusalem Chant Cistercien harmonia mundi
Max Richter And Some Will Fall - Edit In A Landscape Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Lina Bahn Four Movements: I. Three Loops Axolotl Neuma Records
Karen Walwyn Symphony in E Minor: IV Florence Price: Concerto/Symphony in E Minor Albany Records
Walter Cronkite / CBS News Announcing Martin Luther King Assassinated; 4 April, 1968 I Can Hear It Now / The Sixties Columbia Masterworks
Paul Freeman & Chicago Sinfonietta Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 2 Cedille
Benjamin E. Mays Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr. Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and Black Identity, Volume 2 The New Press
Carlos Simon Love Is Stronger Than Pride (Arr. Simon for Piano) Together Decca Music Group Ltd.
Jessie Montgomery Rhapsody No. 1 Strum: Music for Strings Azica Records
Choir of Trinity Wall Street O Daedalus, Fly Away Home Trevor Weston Choral Works Acis
Adolphus Hailstork Piano Quintet "Detroit": II. Detroit Nocturne Adolphus Hailstork: Chamber Works Navona
Jessie Montgomery Rhapsody No. 1 Strum: Music for Strings Azica Records
Toni Morrison Nobel Prize Lecture Say It Loud!: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and Black Identity The New Press
Paul Freeman & Chicago Sinfonietta Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2, "Generations": II. Alla sarabande African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 3 Cedille Records
Nina Simone I Loves You Porgy Nina Simone with Strings Colpix
Maya Angelou Poem on the Occasion of Bill Clinton's Inauguration The Maya Angelou Poetry Collection Random House
Toshi Reagon & Bernice Johnson Reagon Your Country Africans In America (America's Journey Through Slavery) Rykodisc
Lorraine Hansberry The Black Revolution & the White Backlash Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and Black Identity The New Press
Isata Kanneh-Mason By the Still Waters, Op. 114 Summertime Decca Music Group Ltd.
William Grant Still Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American": I. Moderato assai African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1 Cedille
Brian Jones Frederick Douglass' Meaning of July 4 for the American Negro, July 5, 1852 Readings From Voices Of A People's History Of The United States AK Press
Alice Coltrane Rama Rama World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Luaka Bop
Langston Hughes Introduction The Glory of Negro History Smithsonian Folkways
Cordell Hull Reagon Brown Baby Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Part IV (with Mahalia Jackson) [AKA Come Sunday] Black, Brown, & Beige (with Mahalia Jackson) Columbia/Legacy