3/23/2016 - “El Niño: A Nativity Oratorio” by John Adams

Hosts: Nick Morandi, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos

This week, excerpts from American composer John Adams's El Niño.

Excerpts:

Hail Mary, Gracious! (@ 8:11)
Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Steven Rickards, counter-tenors, and Dawn Upshaw, soprano

La Annunciacion (@ 12:59)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano

For with God Nothing Shall be Impossible (@ 22:34)
The London Voices

Joseph’s Dream (@ 25:46)
Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Steven Rickards, and Willard White, baritone

Shake the Heavens (@ 30:19)
Willard White, baritone; Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Steven Rickards, counter-tenors; and Dawn Upshaw, soprano

And He Slew All the Children (@ 42:30)
The London Voices

Memorial de Tlatelolco (@ 44:14)
Dawn Upshaw, The London Voices

In the Day of the Great Slaughter (@ 53:26)
The London Voices

Throughout: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Kent Nagano

Airdate: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2016