Since you are interested in Stabat Mater / Salve Regina in F minor, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WAGNER / VERDI
Great Opera Choruses Czech Philharmonic Chorus of Brno / the St. Florian Boys' Choir / Bruckner Orchester Linz [ Chesky SACD / SACD - released 6/May/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
HANDEL
An Ode for St Cecilia's Day Carolyn Sampson (soprano) James Gilchrist (tenor) / Choir of the King's Consort, The King's Consort Robert King, director [ Hyperion SACD / SACD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] MAGAZINE CD OF THE MONTH/EDITOR'S CHOICE |
HANDEL
The People Shall Hear! Great Handel Choruses Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) / The Bach Choir / The English Concert / David Hill [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Despite the fact that he wrote a large number of operas and instrumental works, Handel is often perceived as a choral composer - or, more specifically, as the composer of the Hallelujah chorus. |
TAVENER / HILDEGARD / LIGETI / DESPREZ / GRETCHANINOV
Light of the Spirit The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Timothy Brown (conductor) [ Collegium / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2005 ] "Finely crafted and beautifully shaped performances that are not just note-perfect but intensely perceptive as well" - Gramophone |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Rozsa, Miklos - Three Choral Suites:Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis and King of Kings Cincinnati Pops Orchestra / Mormon Tabernacle Choir / Erich Kunzel [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] "Telarc's SACD of music of Miklos Rozsa is highly impressive in every way...this is one of Telarc's finest sonic achievements...is a terrific SACD well worth acquiring." ClassicalCDReview.com |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies No. 3 & 15 Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno / Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Roman Kofman [ MDG SACD / SACD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] The penultimate release of MDG's highly successful cycle of the symphonies of Shostakovich. In his Symphony No. 3 the twenty-three-year old composer paid homage to May First as an important symbol of the revolution; forty-two years later in his... |
KREEK / PART / RAUTAVAARA / SANDSTROM / TORMIS / VASKS
Baltic Voices Vol 1 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "pure and impassioned, astounding choral artists." (The Wall Street Journal) - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
GORECKI / MAZULIS / SAARIAHO / AUGUSTINAS / GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN / etc
Baltic Voices Vol 3 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "Once again Paul Hillier and his Estonian choir provide a varied programme of new choral works by Baltic composers. Despite a wide gamut of styles, each composition has an immediacy that is not always found in contemporary music." Erik Levi - BBC... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A New Joy: Orthodox Christmas Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] This CD, which includes several first recordings of music by Kastalski, Izvekov & others, draws upon the rich treasury of 19th- & 20th-century liturgical hymnography and carols of the Nativity Feast, which were suppressed during the tragic events of... |
MACHAUT / O'REGAN / DUFAY / BRYARS
Scattered Rhymes Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (director), Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / SACD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] "This collection has actually been programmed with considerable care...with the acoustic of the recording venue effectively becoming an additional element in the performance." (Choral & Song Recording of the Month BBC Music June 2008) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Powers of Heaven: Orthodox Music of the 17th & 18th Centuries The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 23/May/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "The choir...sing with exceptional blend and purity of tone" (The Absolute Sound) |