Three of The Sixteen's celebrated Bach recordings in one stylish boxed set. Weihnachts Oratorium (COR16017) - The Christmas Oratorio is one of Bach's greatest masterpieces and this recording is one of The Sixteen's finest. Mark Padmore is one of today's greatest 'Evangelist's', and this recording shows him at his very best. Cantatas 34, 50, 147 (COR16039) - During his years as Leipzig's Director Musices, Bach supplied at least three complete annual cycles of Cantatas for the church year. The rich variety of his writing for solo voices and orchestra along with thrilling choral textures is well represented in the three cantatas on this disc. Mass in B minor (COR16044) - Bach's Mass in B minor displays all the ingredients that contribute to his supreme ranking amongst his peers of any age, and also demonstrates the breadth of compositional skills amassed during his lifetime. It demands choral singing of blistering athleticism but also sensitive, responsive and, at times, majestic orchestral playing coupled with virtuosic obligato. "All hail the über-choir" The Independent

Biret grasps the size of Beethoven' style. The polyphony is laid out in a relaxed way with little indulgence in point making. She keeps the big line and yet is thankfully sparing in her use of fortissimos. The piano tone is sumptuous. Biret' gentle. 747313126675 NXS8571266.2 14938696 .00 14.99 .21 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/5/5/6/1626556.jpg 1 1 N SOKOLOVIC / DEROME / PRYNN / D'ERRICO TRIO FIBONACCI: 5X3 773811157101 CCD15710.2 14925801 .00 18.99 .21 CENTREDISCS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/9/5/6/1626596.jpg 3 1 N HALVORSEN / THORSEN / BERGEN PHIL ORCH / JARVI ORCHESTRAL WORKS 1 095115158425 CHN10584.2 14925689 .00 21.99 .25 CHANDOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/6/6/1626626.jpg 0 1 N HANDEL / SIXTEEN / CHRISTOPHERS CORONATION ANTHEMS 828021606625 CORO16066.2 14258510 .00 20.99 .22 CORO COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 02/10/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/5/7/1/1471750.jpg 13 1 N LEHAR / KENNY / SKOVHUS / TURAY / KIRCHSCHLAGER MERRY WIDOW Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, and Gregory Turay star in this San Francisco Opera production of the Lehar operetta conducted by Erich Kunzel. 809478070559 BOPU7055BR 14939044 .00 39.99 .25 BBC / OPUS ARTE BLU-RAY CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 03/30/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/6/6/6/1626664.jpg 4 1 N SCHEIDEMANN / KELEMEN ORGAN WORKS 4260034866829 OEHM682SACD 16183025 .00 19.99 .23 OEHMS SUPER-AUDIO CD CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/1/9/2/8/1908291.jpg 2 1 N SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / BOSTON SYM ORCH / MUNCH ICA CLASSICS LEGACY Charles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in works by Schumann and Schubert. 5060244550520 ICAS5052DVD 16136427 .00 26.99 .21 ICA CLASSICS DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/9/2/8/1908295.jpg 266 1 N SHOSTAKOVICH / BASEL SINFONIETTA / FITZ-GERALD NEW BABYLON This recording of New Babylon, one of Shostakovich' most inventive and truly symphonic film scores, is the first complete recording of all the surviving music from the original 'lost' manuscript. 747313282470 NXS8572824.2 16182950 .00 29.99 .27 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/7/9/2/8/1908297.jpg 2 2 N HAILSTORK / PINKHAM / DIAMOND / HAMILTON / TOVEN LEGACY OF NADIA BOULANGER 754422613828 ALTS61382.2 16102194 .00 18.99 .23 ALTISSIMO RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/4/3/8/1908344.jpg 15 1 N SIBELIUS / MAKKONEN / KARM FINLANDIA Sibelius wrote very little for the cello, although some of his violin pieces allow alternative instrumentation. 747313079773 NXS8570797.2 20383107 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 03/25/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/2/5/2/1482522.jpg 9 1 N DUPRE / NOEHREN NOEHREN PLAYS DUPRE 013491800127 DLS8001.2 20035983 .00 10.99 .20 DELOS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 01/01/1987 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/2/5/2/1482526.jpg 18 1 N COUPERIN / HANDEL / BYRD / LEACH CENTURY OF DOMESTIC KEYBOARDS 809730302626 ATHE23026.2 13840754 .00 14.99 .23 ATHENE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/0/4/0/1390404.jpg 4 1 N DINNERSTEIN,SIMONE BERLIN CONCERT American pianist Simone Dinnerstein now releases her second album on Telarc. 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It tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse, remote, inaccessible, an eternal presence in a changing world. A projected visit to the lighthouse forms the heart of this extraordinary novel which, through the minds of the various characters, explores the nature of time, memory, transience and eternity. 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This recital of British music for flute and piano is mainly romantic in mood, but not sentimental, given the robust nature of the sonatas by Alwyn and Leighton (both rarities despite the stature of their composers). a splendid third divine art CD for Smith and Rhodes which includes a number of little gems recorded for the first time. 809730506925 DVRT25069.2 14505270 .00 19.99 .17 DIVINE ART COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/09/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/3/0/2/1522030.jpg 10 1 N PORPORA / HASSE / VOCAL CONCERT DRESDEN / KOPP LE GRAZIE VENEZIANE 409350832642 CARU83264.2 14505157 .00 20.99 .25 CARUS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 06/09/2009 03/02/2026 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/5/0/2/1522059.jpg 6 1 N MARTUCCI / COGGI / PASINI / LA VECCHIA PIANO CONCERTO BO 1 LA CANZONE DEI RICORDI This third disc in Naxos' Martucci Edition, comprising the complete orchestral works, continues with the First Piano Concerto which, while indebted to Chopin and Mendelssohn and prefiguring Rachmaninov, nonetheless has it's own expressive immediacy. 747313093175 NXS8570931.2 14433146 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 05/26/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/8/9/2/1512989.jpg 2 1 N HANDEL / RAMPE CLAVIER WORKS 760623153728 MDGE3411537.2 14217753 .00 23.99 .26 MDG COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 01/27/2009 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/4/4/7/1457444.jpg 9 1 N WELLESZ / ARTIS QUARTET VIENNA / SCHUHMAYER STRING QUARTETS 710357582127 NIM5821.2 13809331 .00 20.99 .20 NIMBUS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/12/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/5/7/3/1393752.jpg 0 1 N BACH / VIVALDI / FINGER / GUTTLER LUDWIG GUTTLER PLAYS BACH VIVALDI FINGER 409350834158 CARU83415.2 13948412 .00 20.99 .25 CARUS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/09/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/3/0/8/1408039.jpg 6 1 N KARLOWICZ / WPO / WIT SYMPHONIC POEMS 1 Although he left the merest handful of compositions at his seemingly accidental death in an avalanche while skiing, Mieczyslaw Karlowicz ranks among the most important Polish composers of his generation. The final years of his brief career. 747313045273 NXS8570452.2 13852726 .00 19.99 .19 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 08/26/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/3/4/2/1402438.jpg 35 1 N PUCCINI / MULA / GIORDANO / MACHADO / COBOS LA BOHEME Inva Mula, Laura Giordano, Aquiles Machado, and Fabio Maria Capitanucci star in this Teatro Real production of the Puccini opera conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos. 809478070078 BOPU7007BR 13852924 .00 39.99 .25 BBC / OPUS ARTE BLU-RAY CLASSICAL OPERA / OPERETTA / ORATORIO 08/26/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/6/4/2/1402462.jpg 3 1 N RACHMANINOFF / POPOV / ACADEMY OF CHORAL ART VESPERS OP. 37 013491338828 DLS3388.2 13808846 .00 18.99 .19 DELOS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/01/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/6/4/2/1402463.jpg 50 1 N SCARLATTI / LEE COMPLETE KEYBOARD SONATAS 10 The son of Alessandro Scarlatti, who created a new school of opera in Naples, Domenico Scarlatti is particularly distinguished for his remarkable series of 555 surviving keyboard sonatas, written while employed at the Spanish court in Madrid. 747313051175 NXS8570511.2 13852757 .00 19.99 .24 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 08/26/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/6/4/2/1402469.jpg 2 1 N BLUE PAGES BLUE PAGES 7391782215595 CRE21559.2 01991468 .00 20.99 .21 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 01/13/1998 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/9/0/5/1465090.jpg 16 1 N LINDSTROM,JEANETTE SINATRA / WEILL 7391782216240 CRE21624.2 14927522 .00 20.99 .21 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 02/23/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/9/0/5/1465093.jpg 10 1 N MUSIC FROM MOZAMBIQUE / VARIOUS MUSIC FROM MOZAMBIQUE / VARIOUS 7391782216523 CRE21652.2 15320278 .00 20.99 .25 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC V/A COMPILATIONS 10/26/2010 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/9/0/5/1465096.jpg 20 1 N FOLK MUSIC IN SWEDEN 16 & 17 / VARIOUS FOLK MUSIC IN SWEDEN 16 & 17 / VARIOUS 7391782220445 CRE22044.2 01991642 .00 32.99 .40 CAPRICE COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 02/03/1998 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/0/1/5/1465108.jpg 10 1 N CHERUBINI / MUNCHNER MOTETTENCHOR & SYMPHONIKER MISSA SOLEMNIS 881488110609 PROL11060.2 16183193 .00 13.99 .25 PROFIL - G HAENSSLER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/8/1/8/1908188.jpg 16 1 N HALVORSEN / BRUNI / LOMEIKO / ZHISLIN CONCERT CAPRICE / SIX DUOS CONCERTANTS Johan Halvorsen was one of the leading figures in Norwegian music during his lifetime. His folk-inspired Concert Caprice on Norwegian Melodies evokes the natural world while his Passacaglia and Sarabande echo the sophisticated world of the Baroque. 747313252275 NXS8572522.2 16182844 .00 19.99 .20 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/15/2011 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/1/2/8/1908214.jpg 12 1 N HANSON / SEATTLE SYM / SCHWARZ SYMPHONY 3: MERRY MOUNT SUITE Hanson' symphonic cycle is one of the most important in American music. 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GOLDBERG VARIATIONS 710357250729 NIM2507.2 13759377 .00 16.99 .21 NIMBUS RECORDS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 07/08/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/8/2/5/1375280.jpg 0 1 N GARLAND,ANDREW / LOEWY,DONNA ON THE OTHER SHORE 787867124420 AZI71244.2 13781231 .00 18.99 .22 AZICA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/08/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/9/7/6/6/1386679.jpg 3 1 N BRUNS / STOMBERG MUSIC FOR BASSOON 787867124529 AZI21245.2 13781279 .00 18.99 .20 AZICA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 07/08/2008 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/8/6/6/1386685.jpg 7 1 N IVES / BATY / BERMAN / GARDNER / PLENK / TRUDEL SONGS 2 This second volume of the series features 26 Ives's songs beginning alphabetically with December" (1913) and concluding with "Grass" (1896). The performers include 14 singers, four pianists, and an organist. The organ appears on chronologically the earliest song on this CD, the hymn- like "Far From My Heav'nly Home" (1893). Ives's early and late, traditional and revolutionary are each represented. The highlight of this CD is Ives's 1914 setting of Vachel Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" a poem in it's character and enthusiasm made for Ives. Lindsay's poem and Ives's song capture the spirit of the founder of the Salvation Army as he ascends into heaven accompanied by the poor, the lost and the damned that Booth has brought to salvation. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?" the songs asks. In it's raw liveliness, enthusiasm, changes of mood, and transcendentalism, this song is one of Ives's greatest efforts in the form. The bass David Pittsinger gives a convincing performance accompanied by pianist Douglas Dickson.

2 CD set in an elegant, book-like package. Sacred choral music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance sung by Magdala directed by David Skinner. Music from both manuscript and printed sources of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; a mix of English and Italian polyphony with music from all corners of the Holy Roman Empire, including Robert Fayrfax's splendid Mass Tecum principium.

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The parade of aspirants to the title "Next Great Tenor" has, at times, seemed endless. But no one had been able to reach up and firmly grasp the brass ring, until Salvatore Licitra entered the fray armed with extraordinary natural ability and an impressive list of credentials. Trained by the venerable Carlo Bergonzi, the young singer has already established a considerable reputation through triumphs at La Scala and the Arena of Verona, and his Metropolitan Opera debut could become the stuff of legend. Called upon at the eleventh hour to fill in for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti, he was whisked to New York via Concorde with barely enough time to unpack a toothbrush before he wowed audience and critics alike. But the proof is in the singing, and his maiden recital disc offers that proof in abundance. Licitra, steeped in the Italian tenor tradition, wisely plays to his strengths and devotes the album solely to arias by Puccini and Verdi. He moves through these masterworks with poise and confidence, displaying a powerful vocal style and a sure sense of musicianship. It may be premature to anoint him just yet, but this auspicious debut augurs well for a bright future.

There's no stopping the Price/Johnson bandwagon just now. Here is yet another profoundly enjoyable and well-considered offering from the pair. With Johnson to devise intelligent, logical programmes, Price and himself to interpret them, a remarkable unanimity of thought and confidence of manner is being achieved, the delights there for the taking.

Here we begin with six contrasted settings of Heine, all reasonably familiar songs, each given with a nice balance between breadth of phrasing and warmth of feeling, on both sides admirably tailored to the Brahms ethos and melos in the matter of song-writing. Some of these pieces appeared some years ago on an Orfeo recital by Price (2/87): the readings have matured like a good wine and now-as in Sommerabend-go to the very heart of the matter with a marvellous intertwining of voice and piano. The account of its companion-piece, Mondenschein, not before recorded by the soprano, fully realizes its autumnal melancholy in phrases that seem to linger endlessly in the air. As an emotional relief comes the charm and lightness of Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze!.

The judicious choice of Volkslieder settings once more indicates Brahms's deep understanding of the originals and just how to clothe them in appropriate harmonies, as in the antique Dorian mode of Sehnsucht and Vergangen ist mir Gluck und Heil, both sung and played here with an exquisite sense of longing. The singer changes colour, brightens her tone, for the bantering duologue of Spannung. Then there is the Schwung given to the repeated lines at the end of Madchenfluch, characterizing the girl's spite and frustration. Da unten im Tale is entirely free from the sophistication, admittedly effective, brought to it by Schwarzkopf on so many occasions: here the sad little plaint is allowed to speak for itself, but the verdict goes the other way in Vergebliches Standchen where Price is a trifle too staid.

Finally, the partnership lavish a winningly uninhibited elan on the Zigeunerlieder. If we are occasionally aware of a momentary strain on Price's present resources, we are consoled by the passionate spontaneity of the results. The recording is ideally balanced, intimate yet open.

Price must surely now be placed in the royal line of female Lieder singers that runs from Gerhardt and Lehmann, through Seefried, Schwarzkopf and Ludwig, to Ameling. The length of her actual discography of Lieder must now at least rival theirs. Being greedy, I wish she and Johnson would now turn their attention to Hugo Wolf.

-- Alan Blyth, Gramophone

A collection of hymns and music which many will remember from Sunday school days. An album of warm, favourite songs of thoughtfulness and meditation from a more innocent age. Perfect to introduce the young to (or to remind the young at heart of) good quality music from the past.

You might call it youth serving youth. One of the finest singers to emerge in the 1990s, Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova made this disc when she was thirty-two, by which age Gioacchino Rossini had written all of the operas represented within and twenty-five others. Kasarova, who counts Maria Callas among her idols, is an aficionado of the bel canto style and says she finds Rossini's low-voiced roles, many of which were influenced by castrato singing, interesting for their variety of vocal demands, as the many specialized categories of voice we have today weren't so set then.
On this program of arias and duets with tenor Juan Diego Flórez she sings the parts of heroes en travesti (male parts played by women) from 'Semiramide' and the little-known 'Bianca e Fallierro,' serious heroines from 'Armida' and 'La donna del lago' and comic roles from 'L'Italiana in Algieri' and 'La Cenerentola' as well as the tenor title role from 'Otello,' transposed as one might hear it done at a gala benefit. Of course Kasarova's voice is beautiful, smooth and rich, but most impressive is her absorption of the characters and their various moods. Perhaps she really has taken the Callas model to heart.

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Includes work(s) for choir by Herbert Howells. Ensembles: Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill (Conductor, Organ). Soloists: James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams, Katy Butler.

“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind–a journey into a wondrous land bounded only by imagination…” Although that was an introduction to the strange new world of the classic 1960s television series The Twilight Zone, it came to mind as an equally apt intro to the music of Olivier Messiaen. Although his world isn’t exactly the Twilight Zone’s unfathomable, unpredictable “middle ground between science and superstition”, in his choral music the composer definitely did create his own special, unique, alternately mystifying and frightening, ultimately exhilarating “zone” of sound, a realm of ensemble vocalism that challenges all who will hear.

The Three Liturgies–for female voices, piano, ondes Martenot, celeste, vibraphone, percussion, and string orchestra–is as radical in every aspect as anything today’s composers offer, but at its core there is a passionate heart and a musical purpose beyond merely making noise. You keep listening, not because you’re charmed and comforted–but rather because your senses are so deeply stirred, the familiar conventions of choral sound and rhythmic form and expression so profoundly and movingly redefined.

Long before composers such as Arvo Pärt or György Ligeti became known for works whose rhythmic and harmonic effects sparked descriptions such as “soundscape” and “suspension of time”, there was Messiaen’s motet O sacrum convivium! (1937), which not only embodies those concepts but remains an unforgettably moving, perfect realization of this oft-set sacred text.

Once again we approach the very edge of the boundaries of musical time and space–not to mention the edge of what’s humanly possible, vocally speaking–with the Cinq Rechants (Five Refrains), written for 12 solo voices. The subject is a part of “the myth of Tristan and Isolde”; the music deals in extremes, in all aspects, from dynamics and rhythmic forms to virtuosic vocal technique. You don’t forget this music once you’ve heard it. And fortunately Marcus Creed and his Danish singers and players–along with pianist Marianna Shirinyan and ondes Martenot soloist Thomas Bloch (in the Three Liturgies)–are more than just able advocates for Messiaen’s music: they are musicians of exceptional ability and admirable commitment, who leave no doubt that we are hearing performances that will stand alongside or above any in the catalog.

Whether turned up or at a lower level, the sound is full and vibrant and well-balanced in both the combined choir/instrumental and a cappella pieces. While this program and repertoire may not be for everyone, if you’re a serious choral music fan and you don’t already have these works in your collection, you need to hear this, and this recording most invitingly opens the door.

-- David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

Poets and composers have always found inspiration in the themes of Easter and it's many moods: from awe, festivity, and hope; to disappointment, betrayal, and anguish; to victory and boundless jubilation. Seen in relation to the Passions, there are few recordings of Easter hymns.

Charles Wood made an important contribution to Anglican church music, with liturgical settings that remain part of cathedral choral repertoire.

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Although it is for his keyboard music that Sweelinck is remembered today, it's a curious fact (pointed out by Richard Marlow in his insert-note to this release) that it was his vocal music—and virtually all of it at that—that made it into print during his lifetime. One of his most notable achievements was to set all of the Psalms in French (the favoured language of the amateur circles for which this music was probably intended), an exercise that occupied his entire creative life and found its monument in four volumes of superb psalm-settings, published between 1604 and 1621. This new recording offers 15 pieces from the third book, published in 1614, and gives notice of the variety and ingenuity to be found in Sweclinck's vocal output, encompassing as it does robust antiphony in Venetian style, elegantly fluid counterpoint, and imaginative manipulation of his original psalm melodies in a manner not a million miles removed from that of a Bach organ chorale. The most striking characteristic on first hearing, however, must be Sweelinck's charming touches of word-painting, evident above all in the first and last pieces on the disc: Psalm 150, with its depiction of the laudatory tabour ("bou-bou-bou-bou-bour"!); and Psalm 148, whose sinister evocation of the. whales of the deep is followed immediately by a vivid representation of fire, hail, snow and ice.


The mixed voices of the Trinity College Choir are on good form here. Though their sound is not quite as sharply focused—and hence not as contrapuntally lucid—as that of some other ensembles around at the moment, they produce a nicely blended sound that is never less than easy on the ear. But it is Richard Marlow's astute and imaginative direction that really makes this a recording worth hearing; his sensitivity and responsiveness to the constant changes of choral texture are tireless, while a willowy, declamatory springiness to the vocal delivery and an ability to give the music a firm rhythmic impetus help him to delineate both the form and sense of each piece. This disc multiplies the number of Sweelinck's vocal works currently in the catalogue by 16—and it also provides 77 minutes of the most intelligent and lively choral music-making.

-- Gramophone [8/1992]

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This is the final disc in the Naxos edition of the complete Tchaikovsky songs, which represent a little-known but highly characteristic facet of his musical personality. "Kazarnovskaya possesses a soprano rich in timbre and powerful in projection.

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The precociously gifted Korngold followed in the footsteps of the great late romantic composers Richard Strauss, Mahler and Pfitzner, his unwavering commitment to refined melody, ravishing harmony and formal coherence earning him the reputation of a musical genius.

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