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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:04
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: harmonia mundi

It was in Rome, where he resided between 1707 and 1710, that the young Handel composed these three dazzling sacred works. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor give us an extremely lively and colourful reading of these pieces in which the composer showcased his talent: allegiance to the forms of the past, total mastery of counterpoint and, already, a unique feeling for storytelling. Everything here announces musical genius.

Maarten Engeltjes, Shira Patchornik & PRJCT Amsterdam - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (2024)

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Maarten Engeltjes, Shira Patchornik & PRJCT Amsterdam - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (2024)

Maarten Engeltjes, Shira Patchornik & PRJCT Amsterdam - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 136 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:20
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Pentatone

PRJCT Amsterdam and its artistic director Maarten Engeltjes present two of the greatest vocal works of the baroque era: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus. While Vivaldi’s virtuosic piece contemplates the helplessness of people when God does not support their efforts, Pergolesi’s portrait of the weeping Mary at the Cross embodies what the “nameless” parents of a deceased child go through. In the Stabat Mater, Engeltjes’s counter-tenor blends together seamlessly and soothingly with Shira Patchornik’s soprano voice, resulting in an interpretation that is both profound and deeply relatable.

Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)

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Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)

Richard Marlow, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge - Bach Family Motets (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 75:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Conifer Classics | # 75605 51306 2 | Recorded: 1997

Several generations of Bachs have been gathered by Richard Marlow and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge for their programme of motets. All of them have been recorded at various times in the past but many only infrequently, and one or two, perhaps, now make their first appearance on CD. There is no dull music here and two of the pieces, at least, are of outstanding expressive beauty. The earlier of these is Johann Bach’s profoundly affecting Unser Leben ist ein Schatten (“Our life is but a shadow”). This member of the clan survived both the Black Death and the savage bombardment of Erfurt during the Thirty Years War.

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony of Padua (1996)

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Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony of Padua (1996)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony of Padua (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 68:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | 447 772-2 | Recorded: 1995

The works of the 15th-century composer Guillaume Dufay are often considered to be where medieval music ends and Renaissance music begins. Yet Dufay sounds quite different from later, better-known Renaissance composers such as Palestrina, Victoria, and Josquin: Dufay's music is less densely scored, with more stratified voice ranges, very complex rhythms, and a somewhat neutral emotional affect. Pomerium, a New York-based choir with extensive experience in Dufay, presents here one of the composer's largest works: a setting of both the ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, etc.) and the propers (texts specific to the occasion) of the Mass for the feast of St. Anthony of Padua. Pomerium's polished performance makes this a fine addition to the Dufay discography.

Marian Rosa Montagut, Harmonia del Parnàs - Salve Regina (2010)

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Marian Rosa Montagut, Harmonia del Parnàs - Salve Regina (2010)

Marian Rosa Montagut, Harmonia del Parnàs - Salve Regina (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 335 Mb | Total time: 53:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Tempus | # TMP 1001 | Recorded: 2010

From the thriving Spanish city of Valencia, Harmonia del Parnàs is a talented classical musician who specializes in symphonic music. Harmonia del Parnàs has devoted their lives to perfecting the craft of orchestral composition and performance out of a great enthusiasm for the genre.

La Morra - Armoniae Celestes, Carmina Suavissima: Europäische Musik in Basel zur Zeit des Konzils 1431-1449 (2011)

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La Morra - Armoniae Celestes, Carmina Suavissima: Europäische Musik in Basel zur Zeit des Konzils 1431-1449 (2011)

La Morra - Armoniae Celestes, Carmina Suavissima: Europäische Musik in Basel zur Zeit des Konzils 1431-1449 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 62:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musiques Suisses | MGB 6269 | Recorded: 2010

During the years 1431-1449 a Church Council was held in Basel. This was one of the most important international events in the city’s history. Basel’s cultural and musical life must have benefited from ceremonies and entertainment that took place in a public and private context during this coming-together of Europe’s sacred and secular powers.

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)

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Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 71'04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67695 | Recorded: 2008

This disc presents a selection of works from the Chirk Castle part-books, a fascinating collection of devotional music from the Tudor period that remained hidden in the castle library for three hundred years.
The Chirk manuscripts contain works for unaccompanied voices as well as verse anthems and services, scored for solo voices, chorus and organ. This recording focuses on the unaccompanied items, presenting for the first time a selection of the ‘full’ services and anthems found in the manuscripts, including seven unique to the Chirk collection.

Il Gardellino - Bach: Passionsoratorium, BWV Anh. 169 (Reconstructed by Alexander Grychtolik) (2024)

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Il Gardellino - Bach: Passionsoratorium, BWV Anh. 169 (Reconstructed by Alexander Grychtolik) (2024)

Il Gardellino - Bach: Passionsoratorium, BWV Anh. 169 (Reconstructed by Alexander Grychtolik) (2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:30:06 | 209 Mb
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Passacaille

A once abandoned Passion project by J. S. Bach? Harpsichordist and conductor Alexander Grychtolik, together with the Il Gardellino Orchestra, embarks on a captivating artistic experiment with this presentation of the Passion Oratorio BWV Anh. 169. The starting point for the partial reconstruction attempt and the completion of the work is the surviving libretto by the poet Picander from 1725. This unique endeavor draws the audience into a profound exploration of human empathy with the poignant suffering of Jesus and sheds light on a passion aesthetic we had not seen previously in Bach’s repertoire.

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2024)

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Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2024)

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Live) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 476 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 250 Mb | 01:47:11
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Avie Records

San Francisco-based early music ensemble Cantata Collective continues its major series of J S Bach's choral works with the Mass in B Minor, a towering testament of sacred music and the composer's crowning achievement of his final years. With celebrated conductor Nicholas McGegan, four of today's most distinguished early music vocal soloists and a refined chamber choir, this live recording exudes a spontaneity that reveals the depth and passion of Bach's glorious affirmation of faith.

Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)

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Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)

Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 453 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 225 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:35:55
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Naxos Records

Johann Simon Mayr’s music stands on the cusp between the Classical and Romantic eras. The expressive lyrical qualities in his religious music reflects a career in which he composed nearly 70 operas. The Messa solenne follows the Italian tradition of messa concertata and contains the full ordinary – a rarity for Mayr’s output in this genre. The work’s polyphonic sections made an especially lasting impression on churchgoers of the time, as witnessed by Mayr’s first biographer, Girolamo Calvi, who wrote enthusiastically about this work’s ‘exquisite vocal writing’ and ‘profoundly thrilling’ virtuosity – qualities that have remained hidden for nearly 200 years.

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem & Christopher Jackson - Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2024)

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The Bach Choir of Bethlehem & Christopher Jackson - Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2024)

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem & Christopher Jackson - Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 465 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 290 Mb | 02:05:19
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Analekta

For nearly 74 years from the death of J.S. Bach in 1750 to Mendelssohn’s fifteenth birthday in 1824 the Matthäus Passion had all but disappeared. Young Mendelssohn’s prized birthday gift - a bespoke a copy of the Passion - was to change music history when five years later he mounted its first performance in the nineteenth century in Berlin. Today it is inconceivable to imagine music without Bach, but in the 1820s his music had been relegated to no more than the exercise-book for students of counterpoint.

Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music - Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2005)

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Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music - Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2005)

Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music - Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 203 Mb | Total time: 51:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Atma | ACD22237 | Recorded: 2003

Alessandro Scarlatti's celebrated Stabat mater was commissioned by a confraternity of aristocrats, the Cavalieri della Vergine dei Dolori, for its annual Lenten service at the Franciscan church of San Luigi in Naples. It remained in use until the confraternity commissioned Pergolesi to compose his famous setting to supplant Scarlatti's old-fashioned music. Both Pergolesi and Scarlatti composed for limited resources, each using two solo voices, two violins and basso continuo. Scarlatti's setting is by no means inferior to Pergolesi's but remains much less familiar, despite several excellent recordings.

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Hector Berlioz: Messe solennelle (1994)

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John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Hector Berlioz: Messe solennelle (1994)

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Hector Berlioz: Messe solennelle (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 61:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 442 137-2 | Recorded: 1993

The discovery of any "new" large-scale work by Berlioz is bound to kick up excitement in the music world. So it was in 1992 when the manuscript of the long-lost Solemn Mass, composed in 1824, when Berlioz was 20, was unearthed by a Belgian choirmaster in Antwerp. A scholarly edition was quickly prepared, and John Eliot Gardiner gave the first series of performances in five European cities in 1993. It is from one of those live performances, in London's Westminster Cathedral, that this world-premiere recording derives.

Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey - The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)

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Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey - The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)

Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey - The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 307 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:10:24
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Alpha Classics

The American countertenor Christopher Lowrey founded the vocal ensemble Altera ‘to form the beating heart of professional choral music in the United States’. Now regarded as one of the finest and most enterprising choirs on the North American continent, Altera has devised this musical tour through sacred territories which focuses on epic narratives from various periods, from Renaissance music to the present day. The programme includes timeless works by Gibbons, Lotti, Scheidt and Bruckner, as well as twentieth-century compositions by Poulenc, Messiaen and others. Barber’s celebrated Adagio sits alongside the moving Salvator Mundi , taken from Herbert Howells’s Requiem . Not forgetting three world premiere recordings of works written or arranged for Altera by composers Joanna Marsh, Zuzanna Koziej, and Michael Garrepy, who has arranged Were you there?

Le Palais Royal & Jean-Philippe Sarcos - Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi) (2024)

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Le Palais Royal & Jean-Philippe Sarcos - Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi) (2024)

Le Palais Royal & Jean-Philippe Sarcos - Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 264 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:46:22
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Aparté

Baroque Italy still conceals many works that are too rarely performed. Here, ensemble Le Palais royal brings together Lotti's Credo, Rubino's Lauda Jerusalem, Vivaldi's Laetatus sum and Scarlatti's splendid Stabat Mater. Brilliant, virtuosic and richly ornamented, these pieces were composed for festivities and celebrations, and reflect the effervescence and opulence of the Italian cities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Far from the smooth, cold marble, the ensemble's performance on period instruments reveals all the asperities, reliefs and volumes of a language and music that it sculpts like a colourful and sensual material.