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Hymns
(more) »rank: 5127by: Beth Nielsen Chapman
:Album Details:Following the Success of her 2004 UK Number One Country Album 'Look', Beth Nielson Chapman Returns with 'Hymns'. The Album Not Only features Well Known Classics, Others were Written by Chapman, and Blend Together to Make for a Beautiful Sounding Album, which Flows Soothingly Through the Speakers. No USA Release Scheduled.
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Best Carols 100
(more) »rank: 12018from: EMI Classics
:Album Description:2007 release in the Best Classics 100 series, 100 Best Carols is the perfect Christmas release-- six CDs of the most famous carols, all time for the price of one full-priced disc! Among the vocal groups found on this release are the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, the Taverner Choir, the Bach Choir, and the Wiener Sangerknaben, while star soloists include Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Hendricks, Hermann Prey, and Kiri Te Kanawa.
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Arvo Part: Te Deum / Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
(more) »rank: 15875by: Tonu Karljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
: essential recording:Though these pieces are typical of Pärt's style, they seem less bleak than those on previous discs. The Te Deum, while often in a minor tonality and sometimes imposing, has a suitable extroverted quality; the Magnificat, with its hushed intensity, does seem solemn, but its cadences are striking, typically resolving from a tonal chord to a shimmering major-second dissonance. The Berliner Messe includes not only the Mass ordinary, but also three propers for Pentecost, and displays a range of moods from nervous penitence in the Kyrie to lively good cheer in the Credo to serenity in the Agnus Dei. ...
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On the Way to Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrim)
(more) »rank: 41027from: Naxos
: essential recording:Though these pieces are typical of Pärt's style, they seem less bleak than those on previous discs. The Te Deum, while often in a minor tonality and sometimes imposing, has a suitable extroverted quality; the Magnificat, with its hushed intensity, does seem solemn, but its cadences are striking, typically resolving from a tonal chord to a shimmering major-second dissonance. The Berliner Messe includes not only the Mass ordinary, but also three propers for Pentecost, and displays a range of moods from nervous penitence in the Kyrie to lively good cheer in the Credo to serenity in the Agnus Dei. ...
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Christopher Parkening - The Great Recordings ~ By America's Preeminent Guitar Virtuoso
(more) »rank: 13475by: Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin, Gabriel Fauré, Isaac Albeniz, Anonymous, Francisco Tarrega (y Eixea), Silvius Leopold Weiss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gordon Young, Georg Philipp Telemann, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Manuel de Falla, Manuel Ponce, Enrique Granados, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Andrew York, Fernando Sor, Gaspar Sanz, Joaquin Rodrigo, Christopher Parkening
: essential recording:Though these pieces are typical of Pärt's style, they seem less bleak than those on previous discs. The Te Deum, while often in a minor tonality and sometimes imposing, has a suitable extroverted quality; the Magnificat, with its hushed intensity, does seem solemn, but its cadences are striking, typically resolving from a tonal chord to a shimmering major-second dissonance. The Berliner Messe includes not only the Mass ordinary, but also three propers for Pentecost, and displays a range of moods from nervous penitence in the Kyrie to lively good cheer in the Credo to serenity in the Agnus Dei. ...
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Agnus Dei: Music of Inner Harmony: The Choir of New College Oxford
(more) »rank: 8370from: Erato
: :Beyond this recording's new age packaging and title is a splendid sampling of some of the world's finest choral music, sung by one of the world's outstanding choirs. This 'anthology of sacred choral music' spans 400 years and includes such masterpieces as Allegri's Miserere, Bach's 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring,' and Barber's exquisite Agnus Dei, which is the composer's choral setting of his famous Adagio for Strings. Along the way we also hear Mozart's sublime 'Ave verum corpus,' Elgar's 'Lux aeterna,' and the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. There has been a choir at England's New College, Oxford, since the ...
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Fauré: Requiem
(more) »rank: 67374from: Coro
:Album Description:Faure Requiem / Mozart Ave, verum Corpus; Vespers The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh lifeblood to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's choral masterpieces. Recorded at the 2007 Mostly Mozart Festival at London's Barbican Hall, this disc reflects the unique live experience of a concert performance that captivated its audience. Conducted by Harry Christophers, The Sixteen and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields are joined by four fine soloists for this recording.
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Faure: Requiem and other choral music
(more) »rank: 17000from: Collegium
: :John Rutter's groundbreaking research and subsequent performing edition of Fauré's beloved Requiem has enabled us to hear the work as the composer originally intended. His first version of the piece included only a chamber orchestra with lower strings, harp, timpani, and organ. Four years later, Fauré added two movements and slightly expanded the orchestration. This is the version that Rutter and his inimitable Cambridge Singers perform here-- and it's a glorious revelation, especially if the only Fauré Requiem you've heard is that for full orchestra, which the composer himself neither created nor approved. Rutter and his singers give us a wonderfully ...
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Christmas With the Von Trapp Children
(more) »rank: 34894from: Rattlesby Records
: :John Rutter's groundbreaking research and subsequent performing edition of Fauré's beloved Requiem has enabled us to hear the work as the composer originally intended. His first version of the piece included only a chamber orchestra with lower strings, harp, timpani, and organ. Four years later, Fauré added two movements and slightly expanded the orchestration. This is the version that Rutter and his inimitable Cambridge Singers perform here-- and it's a glorious revelation, especially if the only Fauré Requiem you've heard is that for full orchestra, which the composer himself neither created nor approved. Rutter and his singers give us a wonderfully ...
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Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem
(more) »rank: 41443by: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier
: : This stunning new collection of short pieces by Arvo Pärt covers a 30 year period of the composer's output. The listener will be both comfortable with and surprised by the changes he's made: his essential style/approach and the beauty of the music remain constant, but Pärt is no whispering new-age poster boy. Sometimes the sound just washes over the listener; more often the small complexities or intensities are the hooks by which we are captivated. 'Da pacem Domine' is a prayer for peace. Its different tonal hues thrill as much as they soothe. There's much of Renaissance music in his ...
