[ Naxos Educational / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 17 September 2007
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Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favourites such as John Rutter and Arvo Pärt, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz and Mahler. This comprehensive and comprehensible guide is supported and illustrated by two-and-a-half hours of richly varied music on two CDs.
Singing is a basic form of human expression - whether of worship, sorrow or joy - and the sound of a choir in full cry is a spine-tingling experience. Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favourites such as John Rutter and Arvo Pärt, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz and Mahler. The religious and social background to the music also receives due attention. This comprehensive and comprehensible guide is supported and illustrated by two-and-a-half hours of richly varied music on two CDs.
CD 1
Anon (Gregorian Chant)
Crux fidelis 0.50
Nova Schola Gregoriana / Alberto Turco
Josquin des Prez (c. 1440/55-c. 1521)
Ave Maria gratia plena 5.31
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
John Taverner (c. 1490-1545)
Missa 'Gloria Tibi Trinitas'
Sanctus (extract) 5.28
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers
John Taverner
Christe Jesu, pastor bone 3.35
Cambridge Singers / John Rutter
Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)
In manus tuas, Domine 2.36
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
Laudibus in sanctis 5.47
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525/6-1594)
Missa 'Aeterna Christi Munera'
Agnus Dei 4.58
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
and much more
CD 2
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
'Dettingen' Te Deum
O Lord, in thee have I trusted 3.56
Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble / Concerto Polacco / Wolfgang Helbich
George Frideric Handel
Samson
Aria and Chorus: 'Let the bright seraphim...' 6.24
The Sixteen / Symphony of Harmony and Invention / Harry Christophers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mass in C minor, K. 427 ('Great' Mass)
Gloria in excelsis 2.33
Hungarian Radio Chorus / Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia / Michael Halász
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Missa in angustiis ('Nelson' Mass)
Benedictus: Benedictus qui venit 5:33
Benedictus: Hosanna in excelsis 0:44
Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia / Béla Drahos
Franz Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Aria and Chorus: 'Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle' 3.43
Cologne Vocal Ensemble / Capella Augustina / Andreas Spering
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Psalm 42
Finale: 'Warum betrübst du dich' 4:43
Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei / Stuttgart Bach Collegium / Helmuth Rilling
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Os justi 5.07
Choir of St Bride's Church, Fleet Street / Robert Jones
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Requiem, Op. 48
In Paradisum 3.23
Oxford Schola Cantorum Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
and much more.