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DAS ORGELBUECHLEIN VOL. 1
Cantate Sep 1994
CD
$10.99

Richter: La Deposizione dalla croce di Gesú Cristo

Supraphon

$41.99 Jul 07, 2017

When Franz xaver Richter became member of the famous Mannheim Orchestra in 1746, he found himself in the very centre of the progressive European music scene where a new era was being born in a proverbial melting pot of various influences. However, Richter never gave up his traditional baroque ''craftsmanship'' and after making himself acquainted with the most successful oratorio libretto by G.C. Pasquini, he set it to music entirely within the boundaries of his characteristic style, combining baroque composition principles with the achievements of the nascent classicist style. For this he used the new 1744 version of the lbiretto intended fo J.A. Hasse. La Deposizione, Richter's only Italian oratorio is a Good Friday pondering of Jesus's disciples over God's unconditional love and Christ's suffering on the cross. For the first time it was performed on the Good Friday of 1748 in the Mannheim court church of The Visitation of Our Lady. After the Strassbourg Requiem, this premiere recording is another gemstone that the Czech Ensemble Baroque have added to the mosaic of Richter's remarkable, still little-researched oeuvre.

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Richter: La Deposizione dalla croce di Gesú Cristo
Supraphon Jul 2017
CD
$41.99

HOPE

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

$15.49 Oct 08, 2021

With this album, Daniel Hope presents a personal collection of timeless classics by Schubert, Elgar and P"rt, several beloved traditional songs, and a brand new arrangement of the inspiring and spiritual Misa Criolla by Ariel Ram¡rez. "Music has a tremendous power," says Daniel Hope. "This album is my attempt to send out a ray of hope and provide people, including myself, with a sense of support and a feeling of trust."

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HOPE
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON Oct 2021
CD
$15.49

Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus

Alpha

$20.99 Mar 15, 2019

Composed in 1944 and first performed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 March 1945 by Yvonne Loriod, this is the second great pianistic cycle by Olivier Messiaen: a major work indeed, not only in the composer's oeuvre but in the entire repertoire for solo piano. As we know, it's origin is in the faith and spirituality of Olivier Messiaen, who described it as: 'The Contemplation of the Child-God in the cradle, and the gazes fixed upon Him: from the inexpressible Gaze of God the Father to the multiple Gaze of the Church of love, also taking in the unheard Gaze of the Spirit of joy, the tender Gaze of the Virgin, of the Angels, of the Magi, and of those creatures that are immaterial or symbolic (Time, Extreme Height, Silence, the Star, the Cross).' He continues: 'It is a complex of sounds destined for perpetual variations, pre-existing in the abstract as a series, but very concrete and easy to recognize by their colours: a steely grey-blue traversed by bright red and orange, a mauve-tinted violet spotted with leather-brown and encircled in deep purple.' The vision of this work transmitted by Martin Helmchen - a great piano virtuoso who is himself marked by a strong sense of spirituality - is another substantial contribution to the Messiaenic monument.

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Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Alpha Mar 2019
CD
$20.99

Rolle: Ach, dass du den Himmel zerrissest
CPO Jan 1900
CD
$18.99

Jubilate Deo

Oehms Classics

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Oct 30, 2012

What a colorful, jubilant Exultate Deo" effervescently resonating through the church nave in the highest and lowest tones! What rejoicing the alternation between chorus and soli voices, vocal, and instrumental music expresses - transforming the sober, light St. Mark's Church into a magnificent, brilliant Basilica di San Marco!" This was the Suddeutsche Zeitung's response to the November 2011 concert at the orpheus chor munchen with Les Cornets Noir.

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Jubilate Deo
Oehms Classics Oct 2012
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Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-jesus / Hyldig

OUR Recordings

$28.99 Jun 09, 2023

Olivier Messiaen’s two-and-a-half-hour piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jesus is one of the most extraordinary and ground-breaking works in twentieth-century piano repertoire, joining such musical Mount Everests as Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the late Sonatas of Beethoven. That such a work was created in 1944 during the German occupation of France, and yet expresses such joy, conviction, love, and hope makes it all the more remarkable.

At more than two hours in length, the work is rarely performed in full. It takes a special kind of performer who has the physical and emotional stamina and focus to undertake such a task for it places immense technical and musical demands on the pianist.
One such musicians is Kristoffer Hyldig. KRISTOFFER HYLDIG is one of Denmark‘s leading pianists, recognized for his musicality and highly personal, sensitive approach. Known for his versatility, he is in demand as a soloist, as well as chamber musician and lied accompanist, and his concerts are often broadcasted on Danish Radio. He is a founding member of Messiaen Quartet Copenhagen, where his work comprises artistic programming as well as closely working with composers, commissioning, and premiering pieces.

Recorded in Vor Frelser’s Church, Copenhagen during one of the most severe periods of the lock down by producer, recording & balance engineer extraordinaire, Preben Iwan. The album is recorded in the immersive DXD format.

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Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-jesus / Hyldig
OUR Recordings Jun 2023
CD
$28.99

Christ Be Near

GIA

$18.99 Jan 01, 2009

Marty Haugen has joined with composer colleagues Fr. Michael Joncas and Tony Alonso to produce a new collection of 13 songs for worship. The music reflects a wide diversity of musical forms and styles, from the classical “Lauda Sion” (Joncas) to the beautiful “In the Arms of God” (Alonso) to the call-and-response “God Is Still Speaking” (Haugen). Psalm settings, communion songs, and songs for specific feasts (e.g., Ash Wednesday, Easter Vigil) with texts by Susan Briehl, Mary Louise Bringle, Delores Dufner OSB, John Fennelly, Alan Hommerding, and James Quinn SJ ensure that there is music here to enhance any community repertoire.

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Christ Be Near
GIA Jan 2009
CD
$18.99

MESSA DA REQUIEM

MYTO Historical

$5.49 ~~$10.99~~ Save 50% May 12, 2015

One of Giuseppe Verdi's most dramatic, profound and moving works, the Requiem (1874) was written in heartfelt response to the passing of poet, novelist and Italian patriot Alessandro Manzoni in 1873. This superb reading, witnessed and recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1960 under the masterful and knowing direction of Carlo Maria Giulini, features the then relativity new Philharmonia Orchestra (founded 1945) and Chorus, with a cast of vocal soloists that featured, on the women's side, Joan Sutherland and Fiorenza Cossotto, Luigi Ottolini and the recently deceased Ivo Vinco on the men's.

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MESSA DA REQUIEM
MYTO Historical May 2015
CD
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Homilius: Siehe, der Herr kommt - Christmas & Advent Cantatas / Willens, Kolner Akademy

CPO

$18.99 Feb 07, 2020

This album marks the recording premiere of four cantatas by Gottfried August Homilius for Advent and Christmas. Homilius was the number-one composer of Protestant church music during the second half of the eighteenth century and during his lifetime was regarded as »perhaps today’s very best church composer. “After his death the lexicographer Ernst Ludwig Gerber expressed the view that he was »without contradiction our greatest church composer.” Homilius’ music already displays elements of early Classicism and the sensibility of the empfindsamer Stil, his cantata choruses are frequently homophonic and songlike in design, and polyphonic sections are rather rare. His cantatas composed around 1776 prove to be works of individual design and conception and attest to his mastery as a composer. Arias of great tonal beauty, the naturalness of their expression, and the dramatic suspense of the numbers continue to fascinate listening audiences even today!

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Homilius: Siehe, der Herr kommt - Christmas & Advent Cantatas / Willens, Kolner Akademy
CPO Feb 2020
CD
$18.99

Olsson / Langlais: Te Deum / Messe Solennelle
BIS Jan 1985
CD
$21.99

Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 8 - Celebratory Cantatas / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan

BIS

SACD

$21.99 Jun 02, 2017

Besides the fact that they both celebrate Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, there is a close connection between the two works included on the eighth volume of Bach's secular cantatas. On October 2nd, 1734, the King and his family made a surprise visit to Leipzig, and in all haste a festive event was planned for three days later, in celebration of the anniversary of Augustus's ascension to the Polish throne. Bach was asked to provide the musical entertainment, and consequently had to put aside the work he was busy composing...namely BWV 206 ''Schleicht, spielende Wellen'', intended for a celebration of the King's birthday on October 7th! The new cantata, Preise dein Glucke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215, is a substantial work, and it is not surprising that Bach, with only a few days to produce it, had recourse to earlier compositions: the only parts that were written completely from scratch were the recitatives, the soprano aria and the final chorus.

In the meantime, BWV 206 - the birthday cantata that Bach had to put on hold - came to good use two years later, when the King's birthday was celebrated with a concert at Zimmermann's coffee house in Leipzig. Both works are richly scored with trumpets and timpani, and here receive suitably festive performances form Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki.

REVIEW:

Schleicht, spielende Wellen (‘Flow, playful waves and murmur’) follows the dramma per musica template of allegory – this time with four competing rivers yearning for the primacy of the monarch’s affections. However ludicrous, Bach constructs a very significant work which Suzuki treats as an undertaking of serious critical engagement. After 22 years of intensive Bach recording, Suzuki and his forces just seem to get better.

– Gramophone

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Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 8 - Celebratory Cantatas / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan
BIS Jun 2017
SACD
$21.99

J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 7

BIS

SACD

$21.99 Sep 09, 2016

This is the seventh disc in the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki’s series of secular cantatas by J. S. Bach. The best known of these cantatas is featured on this installment, the ever popular “Peasant Cantata.” The piece was written in broad dialect, and set to music which was based around folk songs, making it accessible to the greater population rather than the educated elite. The soprano cantata BWV 209 was composed as a musical farewell to one of Bach’s pupils upon his departure from Leipzig. Finally, Amore traitor for bass solo follows the story of a lover who accuses Amor of betrayal and deception. The closing aria is distinct, utilizing both the voice and the harpsichord in virtuosic passages.

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J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 7
BIS Sep 2016
SACD
$21.99

Verdi: Messa da Requiem

BR Klassik

$29.99 Nov 11, 2014

Looking back on the Verdi year of 2013, BR-Klassik has now supplemented its discography with the live recording of a concert highlight of October 2013. + With the Messa da Requiem, the conductor Mariss Jansons is now represented on the BR-Klassik label with Verdi's choral-symphonic legacy. + Together with international soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, Marina Prudenskaya, Saimir Pirgu, Orlin Anastassov and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Chorus of the Bayerischer Rundfunk is also a fundamental element of the Requiem, and its tonal versatility received special praise from the press. + Giuseppi Verdi’s Requiem, as dramatic a work as are any of his immortal operas and reproached in its day in some quarters as more theatrical than spiritual, was completed in 1874 shortly after the death of the great Italian author and patriot Alessandro Mazzoni, for whom it was performed on the first anniversary of his death.

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
BR Klassik Nov 2014
CD
$29.99

Zeidler & Habel: Missa ex D & Symphony in D Major / Sinfonietta Cracovia

DUX

$21.99 Sep 06, 2019

Featured on this album, Missa ex D by Józef Zeidler (around 1744-1806) was intended for four voices (SATB) and instruments - two violins, two trumpets and organs. Zeidler displays in it solid compositional skill, which abounds in a variety of employed means. The collection includes two compositions by Antoni Habel (1760-1831), including one symphony. Symphonia was written for two violins, a viola, two flutes, two horns and a basso. In the then Commonwealth, church centers and bands acting in them played a major role in popularizing the symphonies. They served as a setting of church services. It was therefore a type of a local church symphony, which drew on European standards. Habel's Symphony is an example of this. The MUSICA SACROMONTANA Festival serves the continuation of the intentions of the Filipino Order, who wanted to evangelize through the broadly understood propagation of culture. It is thanks to their efforts that in the 17th century a great band was created there, and the greatest composers came to Gostyń.

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Zeidler & Habel: Missa ex D & Symphony in D Major / Sinfonietta Cracovia
DUX Sep 2019
CD
$21.99

Puccini: Tosca, S. 69 (Sung in German) [Recorded 1950]
Walhall Eternity Series Jan 2004
CD
$10.99

Reger & Mahler / Spering, Das Neue Orchester

Capriccio

$21.99 Oct 06, 2023

In celebration of the 150th Anniversary this Album focus on still less-known but exceptional sensitive and impressive Choral Symphonic and Orchestra songs by Max Reger. With these works, Reger entirely adhered to the trend of the time; the large-scale idea, which would have had no place in the operas of the period, is transferred to the concert hall, so to speak, and is as far removed from the "simple" orchestral song as some of Mahler's Rückert-Lieder. The Hebbel Requiem, Op. 144b includes audible parallels with Johannes Brahms‘s German Requiem and was Reger’s memorial for the German soldiers killed in the war.

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Reger & Mahler / Spering, Das Neue Orchester
Capriccio Oct 2023
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$21.99

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MESSA DA REQUIEM: CUNITZ-HÖNGE
Archipel Jan 2012
CD
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Massenet: Werther (Bayerische Staatsoper Live)
Orfeo May 1998
CD
$26.99

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Schutz, H.: Lukas-Passion
Cantate Feb 2004
CD
~~$10.99~~ $5.49

Schumann: An die Sterne Weltliche Chormusic
Carus Jul 2013
CD
$16.99

Mendelssohn - Christus - Church Music Vol 3 / Bernius
Carus Aug 2005
CD
$20.99

Messiaen, O.: Poemes Pour Mi / Les Offrandes Oubliees / Un S

Naxos

$19.99 Oct 27, 2009

Love and faith, mortality and eternity are the abiding themes of these three important and beautifully shimmering works by one of the 20th century' most innovative composers. Les offrandes oubliees, Messiaen' first published orchestral work, is a symphony.

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Messiaen, O.: Poemes Pour Mi / Les Offrandes Oubliees / Un S
Naxos Oct 2009
CD
$19.99

J.S. Bach: Messe in h-Moll, BWV 232 (Mass in B Minor)

Carus

$26.99 Sep 11, 2015

Many questions persist surrounding J. S. Bach’s Mass in B minor, one of the master’s most frequently performed vocal works, enigmas and problems that musicologists and performers continue to research or grapple with, including early performance, textual and revision issues. The present new live 2015 recording by the combined forces of the Gächinger Kantorei, Freiburger Barockorchester, conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann and vocal soloists rigorously follows – in the Kyrie and Gloria – Bach’s own meticulously configured “Dresdner Stimmen” [Dresden parts] and is therefore based, for the first time, exclusively on the musical text that emanated from Bach’s pen. Additional movements with marked deviations from the familiar version are accessible as variants as bonus material on Disc Two. Renowned Bach and Mozart scholar Ulrich Leisinger, upon whose new edition of the work this recording is based, also prepared the notes in the accompanying booklet. The Deluxe version also contains a bonus DVD with additional material: Film: Bach’s Secret Legacy – Hans-Christoph Rademann in search of the true B-minor Mass. Also: Bach’s Manuscript: The “Dresden Parts“ of 1733 in PDF format.

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J.S. Bach: Messe in h-Moll, BWV 232 (Mass in B Minor)
Carus Sep 2015
CD
$26.99

Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 7 / Meyer, Opella Musica

CPO

$18.99 May 06, 2022

The next-to-last album in our complete recording of Johann Kuhnau’s cantatas once again presents outstanding examples of German Lutheran church music. “They reinforce the positive impression created by the previous volumes. The singers very much know their way around Kuhnau, and this knowledge is rendered audible. The instrumental parts are perfectly executed” (musicweb international of Vol. 6). Kuhnau’s magnificent cantata “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” for five-part choir, two corni grandi, two recorders, five-part strings (with divided violas), and basso continuo is certainly an outstanding composition within his oeuvre and a special highlight on Vol. 7. This work has been transmitted in a copy made by the renowned Weimar city organist and lexicographer Johann Gottfried Walther, who is known to have engaged in personal dialogue with Kuhnau. The cantata is framed by Philipp Nicolai’s sacred hymn of the same name and traces its origins to an anonymous poet, and in it Kuhnau lives up in every way to the outstanding reputation that he enjoyed among his contemporaries as a vocal composer in the devotional church style. The opening chorus clothes the chorale in a musical fabric of great sonority consisting of imitations, in anticipation, in repetition, and of motet character, such as only a few composers of his generation could have committed to paper.

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Kuhnau: Complete Sacred Works, Vol. 7 / Meyer, Opella Musica
CPO May 2022
CD
$18.99