Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Variation XXI from "Goldberg Variations"
  Violinist Julian Rachlin, violist Nobuko Imai, and cellist Mischa Maisky
  
• William Byrd
  "Miserere Mihi" ("Have Mercy Upon Me")
  Stile Antico
  Musica Antica Early Music Festival, Bruges, Belgium
  
• Peter Tchaikovsky
  Nocturne in D Minor for Cello and Orchestra
  Cellist and conductor Mischa Maisky with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
  New Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Final Aria from "Goldberg Variations"
  Pianist Christopher Taylor
  Van Cliburn Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
  
• Joseph Haydn
  Excerpts from "Seven Last Words of Our Savior from the Cross," Op. 51
  The Soyulla Ensemble with poet and narrator Michael Dennis Browne
  House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
  

hour 2

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Excerpts from "The Saint John Passion"
  The Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir with conductor Karl Richter
  
• Anthony Holborne
  "The Sighs"
  Capriccio Stravagante with conductor Skip Sempe
  Musica Antica Early Music Festival, Bruges, Belgium
  
• Francois Couperin
  "Lesson One," from "Lessons for Tenebrae"
  Soprano Sandrine Piau with Les Talens Lyriques and conductor Christopher Rousset
  
• Osvaldo Golijov
  "Tenebrae"
  The Saint Lawrence String Quartet with clarinetist Todd Palmer
  Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
  
• Osvaldo Golijov
  "Kaddish," from "The Passion of St. Mark"
  The Passion Orchestra, Schola Cantorum of Caracas, Alberto Grau choir, singer Luciana Souza, and conductor Maria Guinand
  Stuttgart Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Excerpts from "St. Matthew Passion"
  The Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus with soprano Sibylla Rubens, alto Ingeborg Danz, tenor Lothar Odinius, basses Nathan Berg and Michael Nagy, and conductor Helmuth Rilling
  Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene, Oregon