Since you are interested in Berliner Requiem / Concerto pour violon et instruments a vent, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ANONYMOUS
Ecole de Notre Dame: Mass for Christmas Day Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum, relive Mass for Christmas Day as it was sung in the prestigious setting of the School of Notre Dame in paris, the cradle of western polyphony. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
El canto de Auroros (Traditional Polyphony in Murcia) Alia Musica, Miguel Sanchez [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] A collection derived from ancient musical traditions where groups of men sing a variety of religious texts, including polyphonic greetings to the "Virgen de la Aurora", from vespers until dawn, first released in 1998. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Op 123 Rosa Mannion (sop) Birgit Remmert (alto) James Taylor (tenor) Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) / La Chapelle Royale / Champs-Elysees / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] 'Philippe Herreweghe has the measure of this stubborn masterpiece...No-one has ever got it quite right - until now.' - Classic CD |
LASSUS
French Songs Ensemble Clement Janequin / Dominique Visse (director) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 14/Jul/2001 ] An extravagant jest by Orlando di Lasso. |
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Paras
Vespers for Easter Sunday [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] When in the middle of the 8th century, on the initiative of Pepin the Short, the heathen Franks took up relations with the Papacy in Rome, they were so impressed by the Roman liturgy - the most exalted expression of the type of civilization they... |
PALESTRINA
Palestrina - Missa Viri Galilaei Ensemble Organum, Paras, Ensemble Vocal Europaen, Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] "The performances are simply splendid." (A.R.G.) |
BRAHMS
Quintets Op.111 & 115 Garard Caussa (viola) Michel Portal (clarinet) / Melos Quartett [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] The supreme masterpiece among his chamber works featuring the clarinet, this sublime opus 115 is undoubtedly one of the composer's most popular works. |
MONTEVERDI
Lamento d'Arianna Helga Maller-Molinari / Concerto Vocale / Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The Lamento d'Arianna was incontestably Monteverdi's most famous composition during his own lifetime, and he himself considered it to be the only one worthy of leaving to posterity. |
CAMPRA
French Cantatas Jill Feldman (sop) Dominique Visse (counter-ten) Jean-Francois Gardeil (bar) / Les Arts Florissants. William Christie, dir [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Une Europe galante… 'I have attempted as well as I could to mix the delicacy of French music with the vivacity of Italian music,' André Campra wrote in the Preface to his first book of cantatas. The clear-sightedness of the composer from... |
J.S. BACH
Italian Concerto BWV 971 etc Kenneth Gilbert - harpsichord [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] Exercise into a genuine musical game between nations… |
LULLY
Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The large motet 'à la française' is a quite distinctive affair that has nothing in common with the more traditional notion that a composer like Bach, for instance, had of the genre. If a comparison must be made, we will find that the French motet is... |
CHARPENTIER
Oratorios: Caecilia, virgo et martyr; Filius prodigus; Magnificat Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Superb examples of Charpentier's individual qualities: an acute sense of the word and an unprecedented dramatic effectiveness. |
CHARPENTIER
Acteon (complete opera) Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, dir. [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] Actéon appears on the surface as a perfect demonstration of the classic artifices of the tragédie en musique as created by Lully. But here everything has been taken to an extreme point of miniaturisation - the plot, the number of performers, the... |