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Michael Gläser, Rundfunkchor Berlin - Louis Spohr: Mass Op. 54, Psalms Op. 85 (1993)

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Michael Gläser, Rundfunkchor Berlin - Louis Spohr: Mass Op. 54, Psalms Op. 85 (1993)

Michael Gläser, Rundfunkchor Berlin - Louis Spohr: Mass Op. 54, Psalms Op. 85 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 199 Mb | Total time: 48:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 149-2 | Recorded: 1991

With the Mass op. 54 for five solo voices and two five-part choirs and the Three Psalms op. 85, we present Spohr's sacred a cappella choral music. Spohr has also achieved something new and extraordinary in this field In the 1821 mass, for example, there are echoes of the Russian Orthodox liturgy which Spohr had become acquainted with during an early trip to Russia. Nothing academic adheres to the works collected here; it is rather expressive music of the highest content, and only Mendelssohn and Brahms were later to write choral music of similar perfection It is sung by the Rundfunkchor Berlin under the direction of Michael Glaeser and Dietrich Knothe.

Johannes Moesus - Antonio Rosetti: Jesus in Gethsemane; Halleluja; Salve Regina (2008) 2 CDs

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Johannes Moesus - Antonio Rosetti: Jesus in Gethsemane; Halleluja; Salve Regina (2008) 2 CDs

Antonio Rosetti: Jesus in Gethsemane; Halleluja; Salve Regina (2008) 2 CDs
Gabriele Hierdeis, soprano; Ruth Sandhoff, contralto; Jan Kobow, tenor; Thomas E. Bauer, bass
NDR Chor & Mecklenburgisches Barockorchester, conducted by Johannes Moesus

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 446 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 242 Mb | Scans ~ 27 Mb
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: cpo | # CPO 777 254-2 | Time: 01:45:57

Antonio Rosetti, who was almost always mentioned in the same breath as Mozart and Haydn by his contemporaries, composed over 40 symphonies, about six dozen solo concertos and chamber music and a considerable number of sacred vocal works. Ranked amongst his greatest achievements in the latter genre are the large-scale passion oratorio "Jesus in Gethsemane" and the "Hallelujah" cantata. Both show the virtuoso mastery of a whole array of musical techniques. Thanks to their melodic ingenuity, sophisticated harmony, a distinctive sense of proportion and the, as always, accomplished manipulation of orchestral tones, both of these late works are counted among Rosetti's most meaningful creations. There is no better conductor for this disc of Rosseti masterpieces than Johannes Moesus who is president of the International Rosetti Society.

Fritz Reiner, Wiener Philharmoniker - Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem; Quattro Pezzi sacri (2000)

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Fritz Reiner, Wiener Philharmoniker - Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem; Quattro Pezzi sacri (2000)

Fritz Reiner, Wiener Philharmoniker - Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem; Quattro Pezzi sacri (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 612 Mb | Total time: 136:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 467 119-2 | Recorded: 1960, 1970

These CDs have been issued by Decca in their "Legendary Performances" series; the recording was originally issued on the Ace of Diamonds label in 1960. Fritz Reiner belonged to that era of revered authoritarian conductors (including Toscanini, Klemperer and Beecham) who dominated the pre-Second World War orchestral scene. His reputation was achieved very largely through his interpretations of Wagner opera in America and Europe and his orchestral directorships in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Chicago. This recording of the Verdi Requiem came towards the very end of his conducting career and only 3 years before his death.

Marcus Creed, RIAS-Kammerchor - Giocchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (2001)

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Marcus Creed, RIAS-Kammerchor - Giocchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (2001)

Marcus Creed, RIAS-Kammerchor - Giocchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 80:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # 62047 6 | Recorded: 2000

After the celebrated Stabat Mater, already recorded to great acclaim by the RIAS-Kammerchor, here is Rossini’s other masterpiece in the domain of sacred music, the last of his “sins of old age”. This Petite Messe solennelle is indeed “small” in terms of the forces deployed - the instrumental accompaniment is limited to two pianos and a harmonium - but it also well deserves the adjective “solemn” for its ample scale and its formidable dramatic power. In many respects, this work may be seen as its composer’s musical testament. Dazzled, like all his critical colleagues, Filippo Filippi wrote after the first performance in March 1864: “This time, Rossini has surpassed himself, for no-one can tell what is the more impressive, his learning or his inspiration.”

Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo's Fire - Handel: Dixit Dominus; Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne; Zadok the Priest (2012)

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Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo's Fire - Handel: Dixit Dominus; Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne; Zadok the Priest (2012)

Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo's Fire - George Frideric Handel: Dixit Dominus; Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne; Zadok the Priest (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 67:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Avie Records | # AV2270 | Recorded: 2007, 2008

Apollo’s Fire has won critical acclaim and enjoyed Top 10 Billboard Classical chart success with their half-dozen releases on AVIE. Returning to their baroque roots, they offer a selection of works by Handel that showcase the Apollo’s Fire chorus. The centerpiece of the album is the grand Dixit Dominus, written during the composer’s early days in Rome. In a gesture to Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee year, Sorrell has chosen two works written for the monarch’s forbearers: the “Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne” and “Zadok the Priest.” As a bonus, Sorrell includes “The Lord Shall Reign” from the epic Israel in Egypt.

Barbara Zanichelli, Ensemble San Felice, Federico Bardazzi - Hildegard: O Orzchis Ecclesia (2011)

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Barbara Zanichelli, Ensemble San Felice, Federico Bardazzi - Hildegard: O Orzchis Ecclesia (2011)

Barbara Zanichelli, Ensemble San Felice, Federico Bardazzi - Hildegard: O Orzchis Ecclesia (2011)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 274 MB | 58:07
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

The religious Hildegard von Bingen was known as 'The Sybil of the Rhine' on account of her visions, translated into music with prophetic charisma. This disc presents two sides of Hildegard, an instrument and a mirror, reflecting her divine revelations, through the sound of her words both spoken and sung. The performances are from a specialised early-music ensemble, based in Florence, who have undertaken study of the original manuscripts and (perhaps more unusually) performed the music in public before making this testament to the art of one of music's most singular women, who is still perhaps more famed for her life than her music.

Gli Angeli Genève & Stephan MacLeod - Josquin Desprez: Missa Malheur me bat, NJE 9.1 (2023)

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Gli Angeli Genève & Stephan MacLeod - Josquin Desprez: Missa Malheur me bat, NJE 9.1 (2023)

Gli Angeli Genève & Stephan MacLeod - Josquin Desprez: Missa Malheur me bat, NJE 9.1 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 313 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:37
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Aparté

"Josquin was the most emblematic composer of his time, famous throughout Europe for his compositions both secular and sacred. This recording explores those two aspects of his output, which are more closely related than one might think. Here in a small line-up, Gli Angeli Genève deliver a virtuoso vocal performance that is sensitive and empathetic. With only two voices per part, they play on the timbre and individuality of each voice, and thus create an intimacy and a meditative mood that invite the listener to share with the singers in the deeply moving humanity of Josquin’s music."

Peter Van Heyghen, Il Gardellino - Josef Mysliveček: Adamo & Eva (2019)

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Peter Van Heyghen, Il Gardellino - Josef Mysliveček: Adamo & Eva (2019)

Peter Van Heyghen, Il Gardellino - Josef Mysliveček: Adamo & Eva (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 60:34+68:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1053 | Recorded: 2018

“Full of fire, spirit and life.” is how Mozart described this work of his contemporary, presented here for the first time on this new 2CD set. Mozart’s positive verdict on Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) was intended to make the listener aware, for the fact that the extremely critical Salzburg composer expresses himself positively about a colleague is an absolute exception. His oratorio Adamo & Eva, performed in Florence in 1771, was composed at precisely the time when contact with the Mozart family seemed to have been particularly close.

Valeri Polyansky, Russian State Symphonic Cappella - Grechaninov: The Seven Days of Passion / Strastnaya Sedmitsa (1994)

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Valeri Polyansky, Russian State Symphonic Cappella - Grechaninov: The Seven Days of Passion / Strastnaya Sedmitsa (1994)

Valeri Polyansky, Russian State Symphonic Cappella - Alexander Grechaninov: The Seven Days of Passion / Strastnaya Sedmitsa (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 262 Mb | Total time: 59:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9303 | Recorded: 1994

The setting of 13 sacred musical texts is natural territory for Grechaninov, a member of the so-called 'new Russian choral school’ that included Sergey Rachmaninov and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. They were all associated with the Moscow Synodal School of Church Music and its Synodal Choir.

Martin Neary, Westminster Abbey Choir, New London Consort - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary (1995)

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Martin Neary, Westminster Abbey Choir, New London Consort - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary (1995)

Martin Neary, Westminster Abbey Choir, New London Consort - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary, a celebration of the life and death of Queen Mary (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 357 Mb | Total time: 78:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 66243 | Recorded: 1994

Martin Neary and Westminster Abbey Choir, aided and abetted by the New London Consort, marked the tercentenary of Purcell’s death with this recording, a majestic album of the composer’s music for Queen Mary in life and in death. The Funeral Music opens here with Wood’s transcription of the ‘Old English March’ in procession through Westminster Abbey’s reverberant interior, then in company with the windband marches of Tollet and Paisible and Purcell’s Funeral March. For sense of place, history, and grandeur, nothing beats Neary’s recording. His choir are on peak form in Morley’s Funeral Sentences but hindered by indistinct recorded sound.

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Mozart 250th Anniversary Edition: Complete Sacred Music (2005) (13 CD)

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Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Mozart 250th Anniversary Edition: Complete Sacred Music (2005) (13 CD)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Mozart 250th Anniversary Edition: Complete Sacred Music (2005) (13 CD)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 13CDs, 14:07:12 min | 3,5 Gb | Scans -> 18,8 mb
Genre: Classical, Sacred / Label: Warner Classics

Mozart 250th Anniversary Edition: Complete Sacred Music by Harnoncourt / Mozart / Vienna Concentus Musicus was released Sep 19, 2005 on the Warner Classics label. Mozart 250th Anniversary Edition: Complete Sacred Music is a 13-disc set.

Odhecaton & Paolo Da Col - Sabbato Sancto - Paolo Aretino: Lamentationes et Responsoria (2023)

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Odhecaton & Paolo Da Col - Sabbato Sancto - Paolo Aretino: Lamentationes et Responsoria (2023)

Odhecaton & Paolo Da Col - Sabbato Sancto - Paolo Aretino: Lamentationes et Responsoria (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 147 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:08
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Arcana

Within the Italian polyphonic repertoire for Holy Week of the first half of the 16th century, a group of works that particularly stands out for its organic, comprehensive and unique qualities are the two books of four-voice Lamentations and responsories for the office of Tenebrae from the Triduum sacrum composed by Paolo Aretino (Paolo Antonio del Bivi, 1508-1584). They were published respectively in 1544 (the responsories: a first printed edition of its kind, to the best of our knowledge) and 1549 (the Lamentations). Both books were reprinted in 1563, a rare occurrence for a collection of this type.

Vaclav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae (2012)

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Vaclav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae (2012)

Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 681 Mb | Total time: 78:28+79:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC 24259 | Recorded: 2011

The music here was written for performance during Holy Week at the splendid Catholic court of Dresden in 1722. The example of Dresden stirred Johann Sebastian Bach to some of his most Italianate flights of opera-like music, and the composer of the Holy Week responsories heard here, the Bohemian-born Jan Dismas Zelenka (whom Bach himself admired), had an experimental, progressive spirit in much of his music. All the more of a surprise, then, to find that these pieces are written in an almost antique style. Each of the three Matins services is divided into three Nocturns, each of which is provided with three pairs of readings or lessons (given in chant) and three responsories, polyphonically set for a small choir (the two-singers-to-a-part forces heard here were apparently typical), with orchestral strings mostly doubling the vocal lines.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Missa 'Credo', Litaniae de venerabili altari sacramento (1992)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Mozart: Missa 'Credo', Litaniae de venerabili altari sacramento (1992)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa 'Credo', Litaniae de venerabili altari sacramento (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 61:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 9031 72304-2 | Recorded: 1991

Harnoncourt offers us two wonderful religious works of the great Mozart: Missa K. 257 and Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K. 243. Works of great musical beauty where the Arnold Schoenber Choir gives us an excellent interpretation. The soloists, especially the soprano Angela Maria Blasi, magnificent.

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort - Henry Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia's Day & Music for Queen Mary (1999)

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Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort - Henry Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia's Day & Music for Queen Mary (1999)

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort - Henry Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia's Day & Music for Queen Mary (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 444 Mb | Total time: 54:40+56:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 7243 5 61582 21 | Recorded: 1985,1988

…Parrott parades his smooth and integrated forces with less instant theatricality. Instead we have here a typically homogeneous and unfolding scenario: how organically and gently "Tis Nature's voice" emerges, with Rogers Covey-Crump expressing the passions with a wonderful air of mystery. So too, "Soul of the world" — what a transcendent concluding passage — which has never been bettered for atmosphere and clarity of ensemble. The solo singing here is good (there is some exquisite work from Emma Kirkby and from tenors Charles Daniels and Paul Elliott in "In vain the am'rous flute").