Greetings to all of you who participated in the CSLF webinar on Music in Narnia!
Thank you for your time and your questions. For those of you who are interested, here’s a link to the Ordinary Saints project that Amber mentioned:
If you’d like to explore my music, following are links to my YouTube Channel and to three recordings featuring my sacred music:
JAC Redford Music:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHs5LLxK9Fm-IMzLXgk9WYQ
Let Beauty Be Our Memorial
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQFRCGGxD-2mxHXh21IRZqx8aYdi4R6MV
Eternity Shut in a Span — Music for Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQFRCGGxD-2kC-jMl2t0nDT4Po9-SQiAr
Choral and Vocal Music
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQFRCGGxD-2nBWkQzM2EJCjDxtZWw1XZV
Following up on a couple of the questions I received, here are a couple of lists with recommendations for listening.
The first is a list of living composers who have written sacred music in the Christian tradition or from a Christian perspective. This list is by no means exhaustive! Think of it as a place to begin. I have included YouTube links to selected recordings for each, but the catalogues of each of these composers are well worth exploring more broadly. They are listed in alphabetical order. Create your own playlist!
Ēriks Ešenvalds
Long Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4vmUpGW1No
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2s9KujfmXM
O salutaris hostia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUTC7zzzRI
Trinity Te Deum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEnf8j-ikI
Samuel Jones
Cello Sonata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w57qM6L4luw
Elegy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kot4CdiTqQ8
Symphony #3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGNcHLEgKc
Morten Lauridsen
Lux Aeterna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCBWGDXLf0
O Magnum Mysterium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS4_l0osCx8
James Macmillan
Miserere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJXMjBc5y8
O Radiant Dawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drCQq73ZBE
Seven Last Words from the Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8B79uR2Pk
Roxanna Panufnik
Love Endureth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVH2u7YMCs
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqougj_Ow7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCiI-WA-D8
Arvo Pärt
The Beatitudes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxbArDRcVb4
De Profundis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdoafPTSQpE
Fratres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4u2lvWhpdw
Spiegel im Spiegel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc
I was also asked about my favorite film scores. Following are a few of them, listed by composer, again in alphabetical order.
- Richard Rodney Bennett: Enchanted April, Far From the Madding Crowd, Murder on the Orient Express, Nicholas and Alexandra
- Leonard Bernstein: On the Waterfront
- Hugo Friedhoffer: The Best Years of Our Lives
- Jerry Goldsmith: Islands in the Stream, Planet of the Apes, The Wind and the Lion
- Bernard Herrmann: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, North by Northwest, On Dangerous Ground, Psycho, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Vertigo
- Maurice Jarre: Jesus of Nazareth
- Erich Korngold: King’s Row
- Angela Morley: Watership Down
- Alfred Newman: Captain from Castile, The Song of Bernadette
- Miklos Rosza: Ben Hur, Providence
- Franz Waxman: Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
- John Williams: Catch Me If You Can, Jaws, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, War Horse
Victor Young: The Quiet Man
I have orchestrated for James Horner, Randy Newman and Thomas Newman, whose scores I also greatly enjoy and admire. You can hear the fruits of our work together at the following link on my YouTube channel:
Selected Orchestrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqo46lt-8Q4&list=PLQFRCGGxD-2mMeVfN6R9VFRarESAyJ90Z
Happy listening! JAC Redford