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).

 

 

Sing for Joy!

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.

 

 

Great Sacred Music

Sundays from 8am-11am (Eastern)
Beautiful and inspirational music from WCPE, with your host Rob Kennedy.

 

Upcoming Highlights | Recent Playlists

 

“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

 

Summer Highlights:

June 6 — Dramatic sacred music will be featured with an abridged version of Debussy’s The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Menotti’s The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, and Walton’s Belshazar’s Feast.

June 13 — Join us for grand music by four great composers who have birth anniversaries in the month of June: Joseph Guy Ropartz (6/15), Edvard Grieg (6/15), Igor Stravinsky (6/17), and Charles Gounod (6/17).

June 20 — On Father’s Day, we feature music by male choruses and several settings of “The Lord’s Prayer.”

June 27 — Venice was the center of the musical world in the 16th and 17th centuries. We present a Venetian Coronation as it might have been heard in 1595. Additionally, we will hear Bruckner’s Mass no. 1.

July 4 — Independence Day features music from sea to shining sea: works by American composers from Josh Billings to Samuel Barber, most of them performed by American artists.

July 11 — For Bastille Day (July 14), we present a collage of French masterpieces from the early Renaissance to the 20th century. Hector Berlioz’s Te Deum will be one of the featured works.

July 1 — Prominent today will be Duruflé’s ethereal Requiem, Leoš Janáèek’s stirring Glagolitic Mass, and Joseph-Hector Fiocco’s exquisite Missa Solemnis.

July 25 — This day will focus on listener favorites with selections by Brahms, Vivaldi, Fauré, Mozart, Thompson, Bach, and others.

August 1 — Great Sacred Music goes to the opera! Arias and choruses that deal with the deep spiritual experiences of life are showcased. Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle will be the major work.

August 8 — All the selections on this day will be from the classical era, including Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Beethoven’s Mass in C.

August 15 — On Cinema Classics Sunday, we’ll hear music used for its effectiveness in the movies as well as music composed expressly for films.

August 22 — In honor of Women’s Equality Day (August 26), hear music of transcendent beauty and power with women as performers, conductors, and composers.

August 29 — Felix Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise from his second symphony along with Handel’s Dittingen Te Deum and Bach’s Cantata 21.