Since you are interested in Ave Verum: Sacred Choral Favourites, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CHARPENTIER
Messe de minuit pour Noel (with Poulenc-Quatre Motets) Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / City of London Sinfonia / George Guest [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] This much-admired disc of French sacred music from the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, beautifully performed by the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge under George Guest, is now available at Chandos Classics price for the first time. |
VERDI
Messa da Requiem Daniela Nedialkova (sop) Ivanka Ninova (mezzo) Roumen Doikov (ten) Emil Ponorsk (bass) / Choir & Orchestra of the Sofia Opera, Ivan Marinov [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] 'I have paid a lot of money to hear this work over the years, often with 'name' conductors and soloists. Not many have given me as much pleasure as this performance.' Musicweb International review |
J.S. BACH
St Matthew Passion (complete oratorio) [with bonus DVD of performance of Messiah] Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance / King's College Choir / Directed by Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics CD/DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] 'The choir of King's College are on top form throughout…so, too, are the excellent obbligato performances from the Brandenburg Consort.' Gramophone 2003 |
RACHMANINOV
Vespers Op 37 Olga Borusene, Yuri Korinnyk, Mykhaylo Tyshchenko / The National Academic Choir of the Ukraine 'Dumka' [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Rachmaninoff was not a great churchgoer, and in fact had stopped going completely by the time he composed his Vespers, and his other great a cappella work, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom op.31. Nevertheless, he retained a love for and interest in... |
GREGORIAN CHANT
Gregorian Chant Schola Cantorum Karolus Magnus under Stan Hollaardt [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Gregorian Chant is the music of the Western Christian Church, and since the Reformation exclusively of the Roman Catholic Church. |