If by chance you’re at a point in life where some solace would be welcome, try to hear this Carolina Live program. The excellent Greensboro-based choral group Bel Canto Company present a concert titled In Time Of Strife, and there’s music to assuage such a time from such composers as Arvo Part, Gerald Finzi, Morten Lauridsen, and even Dolly Parton and Carly Simon. The program also features the Rutherford Chamber Consort performing Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quintet in G-minor. Ahhh…soothing just to think about it!
Bel Canto Company
Welborn Young, director
Christy Wisuthseriwong, piano
Dan Calloway, tenor
Robert Wells, baritone
John Alexander, organ
Deborah Egekvist, flute
Veljo Tormis: Curse Upon Iron
Arvo Pärt: Kyrie from the Berliner Messe
Ivo Tntognini: There Will Come Soft Rains
Gerald Finzi: My Spirit Sang All
Dolly Parton: Light of a Clear Blue Morning
William Mathias: Let the People Praise Thee, O God
Come, Thy Fount of Every Blessing, hymn arr. by Mack Wilberg
The Reapers All With Their Sharp Sickles, arr. by Seth Houston
Morten Lauridsen: Soneto de la Noche
Paul Rardin: My Spirit is Uncaged
City Called Heaven, arr. by Josephine Poolinitz
I Can Tell the World, arr. by Moses Hogan
Carly Simon: Let the River Run