Since you are interested in Sanctus: Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ALBINONI / HANDEL / PACHELBEL / BACH / CORELLI
The Best of Baroque Music Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] The first half of the eighteenth century saw the culmination of a musical synthesis between elements predominant in three major musical countries in Europe. From Italy came, above all, song, from France dance and from Germany the more academic... |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
Gottschalk: A Night In The Tropics Hot Springs Music Festival / Richard Rosenberg [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2007 ] "If you know Gottschalk's unorthodox two-movement symphony A Night in the Tropics...hearing Richard Rosenberg's scrupulous new restoration will be akin to hearing Mussorgsky's Boris after living with Rimsky-Korsakov. Most obviously, the new edition... |
EL-KHOURY
Meditation poetique / Piano Concerto / Poems Nos 1 and 2 Colonne Orchestre / Pierre Dervaux (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2006 ] Bechara El-Khoury is that rare thing, then, both a composer and a poet. Central to all his works is a lyrical vein which transports his music far from the academic and from abstract formalism. |
BIZET / MASCAGNI / SCHMIDT / HUMPERDINCK / PUCCINI / etc
Intermezzo Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Rahbari, conductor ; Budapest Symphony Orchestra ; Michael Halasz, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] The lights are dimmed and from the pit the sound of the orchestra rises. |
MARCEL DUPRE
Works For Organ Vol. 7 (Incls 'Entree, Meditation, Sortie, Op. 62') Mary Preston (Organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 17/Nov/2007 ] "the instrument sounds particularly well balanced. The three Elevations are nicely handled, with a sensitive ear toward registration. These are appropriately introspective and musing piece symphony never intrudes on their subdued moo." (American... |
ALLEGRI / LULLY / MOUTON / BENEVOLO CHARPENTIER / etc
Miserere: Classical music for reflection and meditation Oxford Camerata / Le Concert Spirtuel / Capilla Flamenca / Ars Nova [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Lark Ascending: Violin Showpieces Takako Nishizaki 9violin) David Greed (violin) Dong-Suk Kang (violin) and others [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "vividly realised performance......colourful sound confirm this to be among Naxos's finest-ever discs" - Classic CD |