Tune in to Classical Minnesota Public Radio (99.5 FM) TONIGHT for a one-hour broadcast featuring VocalEssence and The St. Olaf Choir. This all-French program was recorded live during the October 2008 VocalEssence "Musique de France" concert at the Cathedral of Saint Paul and features sacred a cappella works, and selections from the enormous, rarely heard Te Deum by Hector Berlioz. (Full program listed below.)

If you do not live in the Minneapolis area, listen online at: www.minnesotapublicradio.org Just click “listen” on the green Classical tab.

Or listen anytime to the program archive at:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/07/vocalessence_light/

PROGRAM
VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers, conducted by Philip Brunelle
St. Olaf Choir, conducted by Anton Armstrong

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers:
Olivier Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium

St. Olaf Choir:
Maurice Duruflé: Notre Pere
Francis Poulenc: Vinea Mea Electa
Maurice Duruflé: Ubi Caritas
Maurice Duruflé: Sanctus (from "Requiem")

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers:
Marcel Dupré: Sustinuit Anima Mea (from "De Profundis")

VocalEssence Chorus
Pierre Villette: Jesu, Dulcis Memoria
Francis Poulenc: Exultate Deo

All Choirs:
Charles-Marie Widor: Psalm LXXXIV

Hector Berlioz: Te Deum (selections)