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Ensemble Vocal Jean-Paul Kreder - Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy, Roussel & Pierné: Œuvres chorales (2023)

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Ensemble Vocal Jean-Paul Kreder - Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy, Roussel & Pierné: Œuvres chorales (2023)

Ensemble Vocal Jean-Paul Kreder - Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy, Roussel & Pierné: Œuvres chorales (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 94 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 78 Mb | 00:33:23
Classical, Vocal, Choral | Label: Warner Classics

The last album in our Gabriel Pierné retrospective focuses on choral music. Discover the very rare Ronde de fées (Fairy’s Round) for female choir and piano after a charming poem by Jean Lorrain, performed by the Ensemble vocal Jean-Paul Kreder in the premiere recording. It is coupled with other French choral pieces, both sacred and profane.

Manuel Tomadin, Il Polifonico & Fabiana Noro - Rheinberger: Choral & Organ Music (2023)

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Manuel Tomadin, Il Polifonico & Fabiana Noro - Rheinberger: Choral & Organ Music (2023)

Manuel Tomadin, Il Polifonico & Fabiana Noro - Rheinberger: Choral & Organ Music (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:24
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Briiliant Classics

In his own lifetime (1839–1901), Joseph Rheinberger was more sought after as a professor of organ and composition than he was recognized as a great composer. His roll call of students at the conservatoire in Munich was long and impressive, including Humperdinck, Wolf-Ferrari and Furtwängler. However, Rheinberger produced a significant catalogue of sacred music in particular, concentrated on choir and organ. Sometimes unfavourably compared to Brahms, he is more usefully regarded as a south-German Fauré – for the gentle contours of his melodies and the softly rounded quality of his choral writing. The principal work on this new album is the Mass for four-part men’s chorus which he composed in 1898, and which has become a staple of the male chorus repertoire around the world. By no means as staid or sober as its scoring might suggest, the Mass is a work of resonant beauty and sweetness, a concise and elegant demonstration of Rheinberger’s melodic gifts and his embodiment of Catholic values in the secular musical culture of late 19th-century Germany.

The Sixteen, The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention, Harry Christophers - Handel: Esther (2004)

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The Sixteen, The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention, Harry Christophers - Handel: Esther (2004)

The Sixteen, The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention, Harry Christophers - Handel: Esther (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:44:57 | 536 MB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Coro | Catalog: COR16019

Recorded in 1995, this Esther was first issued as Collins Classics 7040-2 early the following year. Like Hogwood, Harry Christophers recorded the original 1718 version of what has gone down in history as Handel’s first English oratorio.
In point of fact, the complex and still largely unresolved history of Esther suggests that it was not originally composed as an oratorio at all, but rather as a staged work that would have formed a companion to the near-contemporary Acis and Galatea.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw - Philip Glass: Itaipu; The Canyon (1993)

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw - Philip Glass: Itaipu; The Canyon (1993)

Philip Glass: Itaipu; The Canyon (1993)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 285 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Minimalism, Choral | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 46352 | 00:55:52

Itaipu (1989) is something of a cantata-cum-symphony-cum-oratorio with no clear text. Its topic is the world's largest hydroelectric dam, built on the Rarana River between Paraguay and Brazil, and the piece–in Glass's trademark punctuating minimalism–is filled with distinct South American instrumentation, particularly in the percussion. The music itself is noble, conjuring the human endeavor to build the five-mile-wide dam near the town of Itaipu. The Canyon (1988) is about no canyon in particular but tonally suggests the mystery of canyons in general. Both these compositions are among Glass's better works.

Coro Volante & Brett Scott - Blessed Among Women, Weeping: Sacred Music of Fr. Ivan Moody (2023)

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Coro Volante & Brett Scott - Blessed Among Women, Weeping: Sacred Music of Fr. Ivan Moody (2023)

Coro Volante & Brett Scott - Blessed Among Women, Weeping: Sacred Music of Fr. Ivan Moody (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 246 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:38
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ablaze Records

Brett Scott is Associate Professor of Ensembles and Conducting at the University of Cincinnati’s famed College-Conservatory of Music, where he conducts the CCM Chorale, teaches conducting and literature at the graduate and undergraduate level, and is Music Director of Opera d’arte. Under his direction, the CCM Chorale released its first commercial recording, Lux Dei—New Works for Choir by Douglas Knehans, through Ablaze Records, and has begun production of its second recording, focusing on sacred music for choir and electronics.

Capella Vocale Hamburg & Martin Behrmann - Gesualdo: Madrigals & Sacred Songs (2023)

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Capella Vocale Hamburg & Martin Behrmann - Gesualdo: Madrigals & Sacred Songs (2023)

Capella Vocale Hamburg & Martin Behrmann - Gesualdo: Madrigals & Sacred Songs (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 187 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 Mb | 00:43:37
Classical, Choral | Label: Vox Records

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, murderer in 1590 of his guilty wife and her lover, later took a wife from the d’Este family, rulers of Ferrara, whose musical interests coincided with his own. He wrote a quantity of sacred and secular vocal music and a relatively small number of instrumental pieces. In style his music is unusual in its sudden changes of tonality, its harmony and its intensity of feeling, qualities that have found particular favour among some modern theorists.

Les Vocalistes Romands & Renaud Bouvier - Kalinnikov - Schnittke - Tchaikovsky - Rachmaninoff (2023)

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Les Vocalistes Romands & Renaud Bouvier - Kalinnikov - Schnittke - Tchaikovsky - Rachmaninoff (2023)

Les Vocalistes Romands & Renaud Bouvier - Kalinnikov: Vespers - Cherubic Hymn No. 2 - Schnittke: Three Sacred Hymns - Tchaikovsky: Cherubic Hymn, Op. 41 - Rachmaninoff: Cherubic Hymn, Op. 31 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 233 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 133 Mb | 00:58:08
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: VDE-Gallo

Trained at the Musical Dramatic Institute of the Moscow Philharmonic School, Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870-1927) was active as a conductor of choirs and orchestras in various Moscow schools and musical theaters, as well as a professor at the Conservatory from 1922 until his death. He was the brother of the symphonist Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901). Viktor Kalinnikov belongs to that group of Russian composers (along with Chesnokov, Golovanov, Kastalski, Nikolski and Shvedov, among others) who, at the turn of the two centuries, dedicated themselves mainly to the sacred choral repertoire, considerably enriching the musical corpus of Orthodox liturgies.

Olivier Latry - Couperin: Messe pour les Paroisses (2023)

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Olivier Latry - Couperin: Messe pour les Paroisses (2023)

Olivier Latry - Couperin: Messe pour les Paroisses (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 312 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:06:07
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

When François Couperin published his Mass for the Convents in 1690, he had just turned 20, yet he had created the most exceptional collection of organ music to be written during the reign of Louis XIV. On the magnificent and historic Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, over which Couperin presided from 1693 to 1730, the celebrated organist of Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier Latry, performs a sumptuous version of this Organ Mass which, in a world premiere, is interlaced with captivating Chants sur le Livre, those sublime holy improvisations unique to French baroque music… for a moment of eternity.

Karl Richter - Händel: Der Messias (1989)

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Karl Richter - Händel: Der Messias (1989)

Karl Richter - Händel: Der Messias (1989)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:32:15 | 905 MB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 413 967-2

Karl Richter was regarded as one of the great Bach conductors of the twentieth century, noted for solid regularity in rhythms and a serious approach to the music, though he was not given to following the changing pronouncements of musicologists concerning historical accuracy in performance. He was brought up in the tradition of German Protestant religious music; his father was a minister in the central German regions near where Johann Sebastian Bach had lived. Richter learned piano and organ, and as he approached his 12th birthday entered the Kreuzschule school in Dresden.

Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel - Ludwig Daser: Polyphonic Masses (2023)

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Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel - Ludwig Daser: Polyphonic Masses (2023)

Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel - Ludwig Daser: Polyphonic Masses (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 263 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 133 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:56:11
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: deutsche harmonia mundi

This recording is dedicated to German Renaissance composer Ludwig Daser. Paul Van Nevel and the Huelgas Ensemble have recorded two polyphonic masses by the Munich-born composer, who was a contemporary of famous composers such as Orlando di Lasso and Cipriano di Rore. Ludwig Daser came from a wealthy Munich family. His composition teacher was to be the then famous Ludwig Senfl.

Il Pomo d'Oro & Giuseppe Maletto - Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones (2023)

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Il Pomo d'Oro & Giuseppe Maletto - Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones (2023)

Il Pomo d'Oro & Giuseppe Maletto - Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 289 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:05:32
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Aparté

The year 1603 marked a turning point for Carlo Gesualdo: at the age of thirty-seven, the Prince of Venosa, having made a name for himself with his first four books of madrigals, turned to sacred compositions with two substantial collections of Sacræ Cantiones, published that year in Naples by Costantino Vitale. The first volume (presented here) consists of nineteen five-part motets, while the second one, which has not survived in its entirety, contains the same number of six- part motets and a motet for seven voices.

Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Voix Humaines, Christopher Jackson - Rise, O My Soul: English Anthems (2007)

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Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Voix Humaines, Christopher Jackson - Rise, O My Soul: English Anthems (2007)

Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Voix Humaines, Christopher Jackson - Rise, O My Soul: English Anthems (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 318 MB | 01:00:30
Genre: Classical | Label: ATMA Classique

This collection of English verse anthems and viol fantasias – there are no examples of the a cappella, highly polyphonic full anthem – comes from Montreal's vibrant early music scene and it offers a fresh version of these often-recorded classics of English choral music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The verse anthem, written in English, was a characteristic Anglican genre, alternating between choral and solo passages and deploying the text across plain but often rather fervent lines of music. It is accompanied here, as was normal, by viols; an organ can also be used. Done right, a work like John Ward's Prayer is an endless chain (track 2) or any of the three thorny but exultant anthems by Orlando Gibbons should have the combination of piety and rich beauty that would be characteristic of Bach's music a century or more later.

Mala Punica & Pedro Memelsdorff - Gothic Italy: Johannes Ciconia, Matteo da Perugia, Zaccara da Teramo (2023)

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Mala Punica & Pedro Memelsdorff - Gothic Italy: Johannes Ciconia, Matteo da Perugia, Zaccara da Teramo (2023)

Mala Punica & Pedro Memelsdorff - Gothic Italy: Johannes Ciconia, Matteo da Perugia, Zaccara da Teramo (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 663 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 406 Mb | 02:56:43
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

Don’t forget Early Music Day on March 21st! We will celebrate this year with digital premieres of two beautiful albums. Pedro Memelsdorff is a renowned musicologist who founded the ensemble Mala Punica. With them he intensively explored the music of the Italian Trecento during his partnership with Erato, leading to three albums we’ve gathered under the title Gothic Italy. These recordings include the complete motets of Ciconia, a Flemish composer who settled in Padua and was one of the most important figures of the ars subtilior. Then, the complete songs - mostly in French - by the very innovative Matteo da Perugia, one of the first ever composers to put instrumental recommendations in his scores. These are coupled with a Missa cantilena, a parody mass made up by Memelsdorff after sacred or adapted profane pieces from various Italian 15th-century codices, which is an absolute splendor!

Wells Cathedral Choir, The Nash Ensemble, Matthew Owens - Bob Chilcott: Requiem & Other Choral Works (2012)

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Wells Cathedral Choir, The Nash Ensemble, Matthew Owens - Bob Chilcott: Requiem & Other Choral Works (2012)

Bob Chilcott - Requiem & Other Choral Works (2012)
Wells Cathedral Choir; The Nash Ensemble; Matthew Owens, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 183 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67650 | Time: 01:19:38

As a composer of sacred music, Bob Chilcott has found his own niche by writing accessible choral works that speak to contemporary sensibilities. As has been noted frequently, his Requiem evokes Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé, mostly through its gentle feeling and serene melodies, though without imitating their style or content. Rather, it has its own mix of somber harmonies and fluid, chantlike lines, and the expression of the work is a little cooler and darker. Chilcott's music admits occasional and mild dissonance, though the orientation is strongly modal and the harmonies always feel like a natural result of the counterpoint. Chilcott's Salisbury Motets, Downing Service, and three shorter pieces share the same modern Anglican style, which is approachable and easy to follow. The Wells Cathedral Choir, under the direction of Matthew Owens, sings with a pure tone and clear diction, and the sound of the recordings is quite resonant, thanks to the responsive acoustics of the Cathedral of St. Andrew.

Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023)

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Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023)

Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:52
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Challenge Classics

Jacob Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart is an extraordinary work, both literally, as probably the longest extant Mass of the Renaissance, taking an hour to perform, and in the more general meaning of the word. It is recognised as one of the most ambitious artistic creations of its time; some have claimed that it defies description. The director of Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull mentioned his interest in the complexities of Renaissance mensural notation and the difficulties that modern-day ensembles sometimes experience in interpreting it. Although several recordings of this Mass already existed, few if any had succeeded in doing justice to its subtle system of mensuration signs and use of notation generally. A symposium was held in 2018 and the resulting performance duly took place, but plans for a recording were postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This had the welcome if unintended consequence of permitting several other live performances before the recording sessions in September 2022: the interpretation that Cappella Pratensis commits to disc is well ‘lived in’.