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Martin Haselböck, Orchester der Wiener Akademie - Hummel: Mass, Op. 80; Graduale, Op. 88; Offertorium, Op. 89 (1996)

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Martin Haselböck, Orchester der Wiener Akademie - Hummel: Mass, Op. 80; Graduale, Op. 88; Offertorium, Op. 89 (1996)

Martin Haselböck, Orchester der Wiener Akademie - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass, Op. 80; Graduale, Op. 88; Offertorium, Op. 89 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 56:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Koch Schwann | # 3-1779-2 | Recorded: 1994

The Mass in E flat was most likely composed for the 1804 Marienfest in Eisenstadt, an annual event celebrated with great pomp and splendor to honor the Fürstin Maria's name day, usually on the weekend following the Mariä Geburt observance (September 8). For the Marienfest, the Fürst usually hosted a banquet, a ball, and a concert, in addition to a military parade and fireworks. He also commissioned a new Mass each year (the late masses of Haydn and the Mass in C of Beethoven owe their existence to the Marienfest).

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)

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Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)

Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchener Bach-Chor - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 900 Mb | Total time: 65:42+63:48+68:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 439 338-2 | Recorded: 1958

The evolving musical climate of the 1950s occasioned a profound shift of culture and attitude in the performance of Bach’s great choral works. By the close of the decade, it was one of Bach’s own successors in the post of Kantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, Karl Richter (who’d become organist there at age 23 in 1947), who’d become torch-bearer for a new generation of Bach interpreters. Richter’s recordings with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra (ensembles he founded in 1951 and with which his name has become synonymous) heeded an unbroken Leipzig tradition that could be traced back to the time of Bach himself.

Jan Willem de Vriend, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam - Georg Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione (2003)

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Jan Willem de Vriend, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam - Georg Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione (2003)

Jan Willem de Vriend, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam - Georg Frideric Handel: La Resurrezione (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 528 Mb | Total time: 63:21+50:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72120 | Recorded: 2001

Händel’s La Resurrezione is an oratorio for Easter. It was first performed on Easter Sunday 1708 in Rome. The libretto was written by Carlo Sigismondo Capece. The events related in the story are those of the period between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, when Christ ‘descended into Hell’ to redeem the souls of the patriarchs and prophets who had prepared for His coming. The events in the underworld are set out in series of lively exchanges between an Angel and Lucifer. Meanwhile, the story as seen on earth is related through the conversations of three mortal characters, Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas and St John the Evangelist. The two planes of the drama are united when the Angel appears to the women at the sepulchre and announces the Resurrection to them.

Edward Higginbottom, Collegium Novum, The Choir of New College Oxford - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion (2003)

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Edward Higginbottom, Collegium Novum, The Choir of New College Oxford - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion (2003)

Edward Higginbottom, Collegium Novum, The Choir of New College Oxford - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion / Johannes-Passion (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 510 Mb | Total time: 35:25+74:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8557296-97 | Recorded: 2001-2002

Bach's St John Passon shows the composer's towering imagination at its most intensely dramatic, moving and vivid. Christ's trial and death are retold by soloists acting as participants in the event but also meditating upon it in reflective arias; the choir's role alters from rowdy mob baying for crucifixion to that of a congregation singing quiet, redemptive chorales. Criticised in its day for being too operatic, the work is now revered for its originality, for its faith and above all for its incomparable beauty of musical thought. The new reading is a testament to the vitality of the choral tradition: all soloists are former or current members of New College Choir. It also presents a new level of authenticity, not only with period instruments but also with boys's voices as Bach would have used at St Thomas in Leipzig.

Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi - Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna (2012)

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Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi - Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna (2012)

Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi - Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 425 Mb | Total time: 48:27+41:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94345 | Recorded: 2011

The revival of that most original and fascinating Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella on Brilliant Classics continues with the issue of his substantial Oratorio La Susanna. The story is based on an apocryph bible book, and tells about the virtuous and beautiful Susanna who is wrongly accused of adultery, but is ultimately saved from her execution by the prophet Daniel. This juicy story inspired Stradella to composing dramatic and effectful arias and (instrumental) ensembles, full of burning emotions.

Vox Early Music Ensemble - Josquin and the Lost Generation (2004)

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Vox Early Music Ensemble - Josquin and the Lost Generation (2004)

Vox Early Music Ensemble - Josquin and the Lost Generation (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 49:33 | 248 MB
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Ancient Voice Records | Catalog: 001

Vox is an Ann Arbor, MI-based early music ensemble that is performing a cappella Renaissance choral works in a part of the world where just recently they were hard to hear in person. Josquin and the Lost Generation is their debut recording. The disc contains an attractive and interesting program that does a fine job introducing audiences to the live stylistic issues of the early sixteenth century.

Daniel Hyde, Phantasm, Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford - Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV75 (2014)

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Daniel Hyde, Phantasm, Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford - Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV75 (2014)

Daniel Hyde, Phantasm, Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford - Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV75 (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 287 Mb | Total time: 62:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | # OACD9023D | Recorded: 2013

This remarkable recording marks the first relationship on disc between an ensemble and the label Opus Arte, until now known for DVDs of live opera, ballet and theatre. Its new partnership with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, one of Britain's oldest and finest choral institutions, begins with Buxtehude's sublimely tender 1680 meditation on the crucified Christ, Membra Jesu Nostri. In the future, we are promised works by the glorious John Sheppard, a 16th-centuryinformator choristarum at the college, and contemporary pieces from Matthew Martin, a former Magdalen scholar recently given a British Composer award.

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - Iste Confessor: The Sacred Music Of Domenico Scarlatti (2001)

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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - Iste Confessor: The Sacred Music Of Domenico Scarlatti (2001)

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - Iste Confessor: The Sacred Music Of Domenico Scarlatti (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 223 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 138 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: CORO | # COR16003 | Time: 00:59:32

First and foremost, Domenico Scarlatti is regarded as the greatest composer of binary harpsichord sonatas of all time, and that is as it should be: he wrote more than 600 of them and many are constantly recorded and played. However, early in his Italian career, Scarlatti developed a proven track record as a composer of sacred music, some of it under the watchful eye of his father, Alessandro Scarlatti, believed by many at the time as the top composer of the age. The fact most readily observed in regard to Domenico's sacred music is that his Stabat mater, composed in 1717 or 1718, was the work within that genre replaced in Rome by Giovanni Pergolesi's Stabat mater around 1735. The Scarlatti work was conceived in a different style to different strictures; while it has become the most recorded of Scarlatti's sacred works, it definitely suffers when paired with the Pergolesi owing to its immediacy and familiarity. On Coro's Iste Confessor, the Sixteen led by Harry Christophers widely opt for Scarlatti's own, other sacred music as filler to the "Stabat mater with results fairer to the composer and quite favorable to listeners.

Marcello Panni, Orchestra Allesandro Scarlatti di Napoli - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Morte di San Giuseppe (2002)

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Marcello Panni, Orchestra Allesandro Scarlatti di Napoli - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Morte di San Giuseppe (2002)

Marcello Panni, Orchestra Allesandro Scarlatti di Napoli - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Morte di San Giuseppe (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 521 Mb | Total time: 109:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Fonit | # 0927 43308-2 | Recorded: 1990

La morte di San Giuseppe (The Death of St. Joseph) is a fascinating curiosity from the pen of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the Italian composer of La serva padrona – the little intermezzo through which the irreverent breezes of Mozartian opera first blew. This recording is a world premiere of La morte di San Giuseppe, which was known to scholars through fragmentary manuscripts in European libraries but for which a full autograph manuscript only recently surfaced. Designated as an oratorio, the work depicts the death of Joseph, husband of Mary. It features three characters in addition to Joseph, a tenor; St. Michael and Divine Love, both sopranos; and Mary, a contralto.

Antonio Florio, La Capella de'Turchini - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina; Porpora: Salve Regina (2006)

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Antonio Florio, La Capella de'Turchini - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina; Porpora: Salve Regina (2006)

Antonio Florio, La Capella de'Turchini, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Stéphanie d'Oustrac - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina; Porpora: Salve Regina (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 63:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eloquentia | # EL0505 | Recorded: 2005

At the end of a brief but brilliant career - his compositions cover a period of just over six years - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi worte his last two works, the 'Stabat Mater' and the 'Salve Regina' in C minor. Nicola Porpora's 'Salve Regina' for solo voice and instruments, recorded here for the first time, was probably written during the composer's stay in Venice as 'maestro di cappella' of the Ospedale degli Incurabili, from 1726 to 1733, no doubt for one of the young ladies attending the musical establishment.

Netherlands Chamber Choir, Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw - Leos Janacek: Choral Works (1995)

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Netherlands Chamber Choir, Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw - Leos Janacek: Choral Works (1995)

Leoš Janáček: Choral Works (1995)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Schönberg Ensemble, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 198 Mb | Scans ~ 77 Mb
Classical, Choral | Label: Philips Digital Classics | # 442 534-2 | 00:59:54

Some of Janacek's most characteristic invention is to be found in the many choruses he wrote for local choirs who were moved by both a love of singing together and a demonstration of their national identity. There is a good selection here. Even the earliest, a touching little lament for a duck, has a quirkiness which saves it from sentimentality; the latest, the Nursery Rhymes, are marvellous little inventions from the dazzling evening of Janacek's life. One must resist any temptation to say that they take Stravinsky on at his own game: Janacek is his own man. In between comes a varied diet here. Schoolmaster Halfar (or Cantor Halfar) is set with a dazzling range of little musical ironies as the story unfolds of the teacher who ruined his life by insisting on speaking Czech. The Elegy on the death of his daughter Olga goes some way toward dignifying a conventional text with some heartfelt music, but the pressure of grief has not drawn the greatest of his music from him: perhaps more time was needed, and indeed the piano pieces he entitled Along an Overgrown Path re-enter ancient griefs more expressively.

Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorale - Alessandro Scarlatti: The Cecilian Vespers (2005)

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Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorale - Alessandro Scarlatti: The Cecilian Vespers (2005)

Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorale - Alessandro Scarlatti: The Cecilian Vespers (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 620 Mb | Total time: 64:21+66:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Avie | # AV 0048 | Recorded: 2004

This delectable work, premiered in 1721, shows composer Alessandro Scarlatti at his most brilliantly varied. Solo passages are punctuated with choral interjections and vice-versa, an antiphon duet for oboe and the lovely soprano Suzanne Ryden at first seems like one between two singers; Scarlatti fools the ear. Soprano Dominique Labelle brings a grace to her fluent singing in both solo and ensemble passages which manages to be energetic and tender at once. The setting of the Dixit Dominus never rests; a tenor solo is interrupted by the chorus; an intricate soprano-soprano-counter-tenor trio in the "Dominus a dextris" is rendered even more complex by the chorus, which then, in an entirely different meter, nervously jumps its way to the end and then melts into a gentle baritone solo, with long, legato lines.

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1995)

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Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1995)

Neville Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 671 Mb | Total time: 140:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 444 824-2 | Recorded: 1976

This edition of Handel’s Messiah is a landmark recording both for the Academy and in the history of the work, being both the first recording made with the Academy’s own chorus, and the first (and as far as we are aware, only) recording of the version used by Handel for the work’s 1743 London premiere. Sir Neville Marriner’s deliberate choice to break with the massed-choir treatments of the past was greeted enthusiastically by the public, selling over a quarter of a million copies in the first three years, and leading Fanfare’s Michael Carter to remark in 2010: “There have been many recordings of Messiah since this 1976 release and there will no doubt be many more to come, but few, if any, will match, let alone surpass, this of Marriner.”

Dunedin Consort, Soloists, John Butt - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem, Reconstruction of First Performance (2014)

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Dunedin Consort, Soloists, John Butt - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem, Reconstruction of First Performance (2014)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem, Reconstruction of First Performance (2014)
Joanne Lunn, soprano; Rowan Hellier, alto; Thomas Hobbs, tenor; Matthew Brook, bass
Dunedin Consort, conducted by John Butt

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 307 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 148 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral | Label: Linn Records | # CKD 449 | Time: 01:01:39

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2014 Choral category winner! Purely on grounds of performance alone, this is one of the finest Mozart Requiems of recent years. John Butt brings to Mozart the microscopic care and musicological acumen that have made his Bach and Handel recordings so thought-provoking and satisfying.

Cappella Amsterdam, Holland Baroque & Daniel Reuss - Finkers: Missa Sancti Georgii (2023)

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Cappella Amsterdam, Holland Baroque & Daniel Reuss - Finkers: Missa Sancti Georgii (2023)

Cappella Amsterdam, Holland Baroque & Daniel Reuss - Finkers: Missa Sancti Georgii (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 133 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 67 Mb | 00:28:57
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: PIAS Recordings

Herman Finkers releases new album Missa Sancti Georgii. Herman Finkers has rearranged and re-recorded his St. George Mass with Cappella Amsterdam, Holland Baroque, and Wishful Singing. Herman Finkers composed a Latin mass, the Missa In Honorem Sancti Georgii, or Saint George's Mass, on the occasion of his wedding blessing on 15 June 1990, still without a Credo.