Notice. This is a monaural, non-professional, live recording made by the Annapolis High School choral department of the 1959 spring performances. It has been mastered and restored, but it remains a non-professional recording.
NOTES about The Crucifixion
There are 20 numbered parts in The Crucifixion score consisting of:
In this playlist, for completeness, all titles of all numbers in the score are shown. (The hymns are noted as omitted from the performances.)
Each of the numbers shows what performer type is designated in the score. This performance deviates from Stainer's designations because there were 3 choirs that participated. The choral director substituted the 2 womens choirs for a number of the parts the score designated for solo and recitative parts. (That means this version of The Crucifixion has more choral content than designated in the score.) The director also used 2 of his sopranos as substitutes for a tenor part. The performers in the 1959 AHS performances are shown on the line following the subtitle.
The solo performers names came from the record, and are clearly in order by first appearence. That information enabled filling in individual soloists' names, and which choir (mixed or womens) on the playlist.
(Unfortunately, no information is available to differentiate which of the 2 women's choirs sang which solos and recitatives. If anyone can help with this information, please click on the comment button at the bottom to send information or your contact information.)
NOTE. If the information can be found, a future goal is to build a webpage containing names of the choir members in each of the 3 choirs. A possible source for that might be the Wake yearbook for 1959 (if it contains that information). That means I need to find my copy, or someone needs to loan me a copy. (Can anyone help? Reply via comment button below.)
Play Order |
Major Title Subtitles Performer |
Play Length |
|---|---|---|
1 |
And They Came to a Place Named Gethsemane Organ Introduction AHS's auditorium Hammond Organ used throughout with Marilyn Riecke playing Tenor recitative (text from Mark 14:32) Womens choir |
1:19 |
2 |
The Agony (Sources include texts from Mark 14:46, 53, 60, 61–64, 15:1, 15–16) "Could Ye Not Watch with Me" - Bass solo David Goettee "Jesus, Lord Jesus, bowed in bitter anguish" Mixed chorus "Could Ye Not Watch with Me" - Bass solo David Goettee "Jesus, Lord Jesus, bowed in bitter anguish" Mixed chorus "Could Ye Not Watch with Me" - Bass solo David Goettee "And they laid their hands on him and took him" - Tenor solo Womens choir "Art thou the Christ" - Bass from choir Douglas Hubbard "Jesus saith" - Tenor solo Womens choir "I am, and ye shall see the Son of man" - Bass solo David Goettee "Then the high priest rent his clothes" - Tenor solo Womens choir "What need we any further witnesses" - Bass, from the choir Fred Eucare "And they all condemed him" - Tenor solo Womens choir |
6:19 |
3 |
Processional to Calvary Organ solo "Fling Wide the Gates" Mixed chorus "How sweet is the Grace" - Tenor solo Pat Tanner Lucy Phelps "Then on to the end" Mixed chorus |
8:20 |
4 |
And When They Were Come Bass recitative (text from Luke 23:33) Womens choir | 0:58 |
5 |
The Mystery of the Divine Humiliation (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
6 |
He Made Himself of No Reputation Bass recitative (text from Philippians 2:7–8) Womens choir |
1:07 |
7 |
The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation Tenor solo Womens choir |
3:13 |
8 |
And As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent Bass recitative (text from John 3:14–15) Womens choir with harmony |
1:03 |
9 |
God So Loved the World (text from John 3:16–17) Mixed chorus |
3:04 |
10 |
Litany of the Passion (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
11 |
Jesus Said, 'Father, Forgive Them' "Jesus saith" - Tenor solo Womens choir "Father forgive them" (text from Luke 23:34) Unison Tenors and Basses of mixed choir |
0:38 |
12 |
So Thou Liftest Thy Divine Petition Tenor and Bass duet Womens choir |
4:00 |
13 |
The Mystery of the Intercession (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
14 |
And One of the Malefactors Bass narator, from the choir John Phelps "If thou be the Christ" - Another Bass, from the choir Marshall DeGraw But the other answering rebuked him - Bass narator, from the choir John Phelps "Dost thou not fear" - A Bass from the choir James Nicewarner And he said unto Jesus - Bass narator, from the choir John Phelps "Lord remember me" A Bass from the choir James Nicewarner And Jesus said unto him - Bass narator from the choir John Phelps "Verily I say to you" (text from Luke 23:39–43) Males from the mixed choir Mixed choir |
2:13 |
15 |
The Adoration of the Crucified (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
16 |
When Jesus Therefore saw His Mother When Jesus therefore saw (text from John 19:26–27, Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:34) - Tenor solo Womens choir "Woman behold thy son" - Tenors from mixed choir Mixed choir Then Jesus saith to his deciple - Tenor solo Womens choir "Behold thy mother" - Mixed Chorus Mixed choir "There was darkness over the earth" - Bass solo Richard Vogelsang "And at the ninth hour" - Bass solo Womens Choir "My God, My God" - Tenors from mixed choir Women's choir | 2:05 |
17 |
Is It Nothing to You? - Bass solo (text from Lamentations 1:12) David Goettee |
1:01 |
18 |
The Appeal of the Crucified "From the throne of his cross" - Mixed chorus Mixed choir |
4:25 |
19 |
After This, Jesus Knowing That All Things Were Now Accomplished Tenor solo (text from John 19:28, 30, Luke 23:46) Carroll Dove "I thirst" - Tenors from mixed choir Mixed choir When Jesus had received ... - Tenor solo Carroll Dove "It is finished" - Tenors from mixed choir Mixed choir And He bowed his head - Tenor solo Carroll Dove |
1:55 |
20 |
For the Love of Jesus (Congregational Hymn - Omitted) |
0:00 |
Total Playing Time |
41:36 |
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