This is the acclaimed bestselling debut album of Trio Mediaeval, a group of three women sopranos whom critics are calling the “best female vocal group performing early music, a seemingly flawless group.” The Scandavian trio performs the medieval Messe de Tournai that includes the standard Mass parts Kyrie, Sanctus, Gloria, Angus Dei and more, along with Ivan Moody’s Words of …
Performed by the Choir of Magdalen College.
Composed and conducted by John Rutter Performed by the Cambridge Singers and the City of London Sinfonia with John Scott (organ)
Henryk Gorecki Chamber Choir of Versija This album was composed by Henryk Gorecki in 1987 in honor of John Paul II’s third visit to his homeland of Poland. The choral text is taken from a poem written by Maria Boguslawska. The music is based on chants of the Polish church and reflects Gorecki’s deep love for the Holy Father, and for his country and it’s musical traditions. …
The King's Consort, Robert King Hot on the heels of their glorious recording of Handel's Ode for St Cecilia , Robert King, Carolyn Sampson and James Gilchrist are here joined by a host of further soloists for this third volume of Monteverdi's sacred music. The programopens with the ebullient second setting of the Dixit Dominus and ends with the seven-voice Gloria , surely one of …
Performed by the Choir of the King's Consort
4 CD Set
The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Philips
The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Philips This CD has two complete masses written by Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria, and Missa Sicut Lilium.
Composed by Antoine Busnois The music of Antoine Busnois (c. 1430-1492) has inspired intense scholarly and musical interest in recent times. With this survey of the different genres - sacred and secular - in which Busnois excelled, the Orlando Consort demonstrates the composer's supreme technical mastery, his melodic flair and his rhythmic vitality. This CD is a comprehensive …
La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe Rosa Mannion (soprano) Birgit Remmert (alto) James Taylor (tenor) Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) "Live, tense communication... there is no mistaking the inner quality conveyed, the Innigkeit, the sense of embarking on a visionary journey." -Gramophone "The performance is charged with a dramatic unity that …
The King's Consort, Robert King Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Toelzer Knabenchor King has succeeded brilliantly in reclaiming the profundity and emotional commitment of traditional Bach perfomances. A magnificent achievement and a joy to hear." -BBC Music Magazine 2 CD set.
The English Concert Choir of the English Concert Andrew Manze, director Biber was considered the greatest violinist of his day, so it is appropriate the Andrew Manze, directing The English Concert, stamps his particular brand of fire and virtuosity on the Missa Christi Resurgentis . This Easter mass was brought to light in Dr. James Clements' recent millenium edition after languishing in …
Sunday Times praised Rene Jacobs' Monteverdi Vespers as, "intensely moving." This set features full color booklets, updated and enhanced, bound in a hard-backed book. 2 CD set Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) Barbara Borden (soprano) Andreas Scholl (alto) John Bowen (tenor) Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) Victor Torres (baritone) Antonio Abete (bass) Jelle Draijer (bass) Nederlands …
The critical success of last year's re-issue of Rene Jacobs' Bach Christmas Oratorio inspired this new 'CD-book' title. Gramophone hailed William Christie's Messiah as, "a triumph... which holds our attention from start to finish". Barbara Schlick (soprano) Sandrine Piau (soprano) Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Mark Padmore (tenor) Nathan Berg (bass-baritone) Les Arts …
2 CD Set with a richly illustrated book.
Music from the Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, Director Missa Sillabica and Seven Magnificat Antiphons
Plainchant, Irish folksong, traditional and contemporary melodies, magnificats and psalms, all telling stories of women from the Christian tradition.
"This short book is an effort to quickly outline and explain the simple system of writing and reading chant. Prior to organization of the writing of chant into this form there were squiggled signs above words that were the first attempts to preserve the oral tradition of sung chant. This form has been refined over the centuries and is also the basis of modern music notation. Note the …
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