The Joseph Triptych (2008)
Recorded live December 6th, 2008
St. Patrick's Church, Watervliet, NY
Aoede Consort, Dan Foster, founder/artistic director
E. Philip Schneider, baritone
Thomas F. Savoy, organist
COMPOSITIONS
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Songs for Jack (Song Cycle) - 2012
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"The Wood Uncured" from the chancel opera
"The Agon of Saint Joseph" - 2011 |
The CAROLINA CATHOLIC CHORALE
Thomas F. Savoy, founder/artistic director
The Carolina Catholic Chorale, founded in 2013, is a continuation of my/our work done with the New York Catholic Chorale from 1997-2007. It's purpose is best explained it its mission statement:
"Founded in 2013, the Carolina Catholic Chorale is dedicated to performing music, chiefly of the Roman Catholic tradition, in primarily liturgical settings. Although the choir welcomes all lovers of sacred music, it enjoys a special mission to Catholic musicians in acquainting them with the great ongoing choral and instrumental music that is their heritage."
Whether Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony, or the "orchestral" Masses of the Viennese school, the millenia of Roman Catholic music is transformative when placed in the liturgy for which it was written. The Chorale recently sang the powerful Requiem in f minor of the Catholic Baroque master, Heinrich Biber. You can see/hear highlights in the video below. Below that are two videos of "orchestral Masses" sung in the context of the Latin Mass. The first is the Mass in A of Antonio Caldara sung in an original performing edition that I completed in the spring of 2016. The second is the Missa Brevis in Bb of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
"Founded in 2013, the Carolina Catholic Chorale is dedicated to performing music, chiefly of the Roman Catholic tradition, in primarily liturgical settings. Although the choir welcomes all lovers of sacred music, it enjoys a special mission to Catholic musicians in acquainting them with the great ongoing choral and instrumental music that is their heritage."
Whether Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony, or the "orchestral" Masses of the Viennese school, the millenia of Roman Catholic music is transformative when placed in the liturgy for which it was written. The Chorale recently sang the powerful Requiem in f minor of the Catholic Baroque master, Heinrich Biber. You can see/hear highlights in the video below. Below that are two videos of "orchestral Masses" sung in the context of the Latin Mass. The first is the Mass in A of Antonio Caldara sung in an original performing edition that I completed in the spring of 2016. The second is the Missa Brevis in Bb of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Video feature from the Catholic News Herald, Charlotte, NC. Premiere of new edition of the Mass in A of Antonio Caldara by Thomas F. Savoy
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Solemn High Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church
Charlotte, NC. Musica sacra: Missa Brevis in Bb - WA Mozart |