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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Koln, Peter Dijkstra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs

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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Koln, Peter Dijkstra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs

Johann Sebastian Bach - Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Tareq Nazmi (Jesus), Christina Landshamer (soprano)
Ulrike Malotta (alto), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, conducted by Peter Dijkstra

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 787 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 409 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral | Label: BR Klassik | # 900909 | Time: 02:57:16

The music of Bach's 'St. John Passion', which the composer wrote for Holy Week in 1724 immediately after his appointment as cantor of St Thomas's Church in Leipzig, still retains all its freshness and vitality nearly 300 years later, and is a true Baroque delight. The two main choruses Herr, unser Herrscher and Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine form the beginning and culmination of a large-scale orchestral and vocal structure in which Bach reveals his absolute mastery of polyphony. Inwardly reflective chorales are as much interwoven into the events of the Passion as the haunting arias which comment on the biblical texts of the Gospel of St John. Throughout this solemn Passion oratorio, there is a constant emphasis on Baroque musical magnificence. What makes this live recording of the concert version of March 7, 2015 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz so special? The fresh voices of the young and excellent vocal soloists, the regularly praised "astonishing three-dimensionality" and "crystalline clarity" of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Peter Dijkstra and, of course, the renowned period instrument ensemble Concerto Köln.

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle - Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:04
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: harmonia mundi

It was in Rome, where he resided between 1707 and 1710, that the young Handel composed these three dazzling sacred works. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor give us an extremely lively and colourful reading of these pieces in which the composer showcased his talent: allegiance to the forms of the past, total mastery of counterpoint and, already, a unique feeling for storytelling. Everything here announces musical genius.

Joel Cohen, Boston Camerata & Harvard University Choir - Liberty Tree. Early American Music, 1776-1861 (1998/2024)

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Joel Cohen, Boston Camerata & Harvard University Choir - Liberty Tree. Early American Music, 1776-1861 (1998/2024)

Joel Cohen, Boston Camerata & Harvard University Choir - Liberty Tree. Early American Music, 1776-1861 (1998/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 253 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 Mb | 00:58:24
Classical, Choral | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

"A really nice selection of American patriotic music from the Revolution to the onset of the Civil War. The performances are excellent. It includes some of the best work, including his patriotic anthem Chester, by the outstanding New England choral composer William Billings."

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2024)

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Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2024)

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Live) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 476 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 250 Mb | 01:47:11
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Avie Records

San Francisco-based early music ensemble Cantata Collective continues its major series of J S Bach's choral works with the Mass in B Minor, a towering testament of sacred music and the composer's crowning achievement of his final years. With celebrated conductor Nicholas McGegan, four of today's most distinguished early music vocal soloists and a refined chamber choir, this live recording exudes a spontaneity that reveals the depth and passion of Bach's glorious affirmation of faith.

Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)

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Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)

Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 453 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 225 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:35:55
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Naxos Records

Johann Simon Mayr’s music stands on the cusp between the Classical and Romantic eras. The expressive lyrical qualities in his religious music reflects a career in which he composed nearly 70 operas. The Messa solenne follows the Italian tradition of messa concertata and contains the full ordinary – a rarity for Mayr’s output in this genre. The work’s polyphonic sections made an especially lasting impression on churchgoers of the time, as witnessed by Mayr’s first biographer, Girolamo Calvi, who wrote enthusiastically about this work’s ‘exquisite vocal writing’ and ‘profoundly thrilling’ virtuosity – qualities that have remained hidden for nearly 200 years.

Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali Libri V & VI (2018)

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Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali Libri V & VI (2018)

Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali Libri V & VI (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 515 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 263 Mb | 01:52:21
Classical, Choral | Label: Brilliant Classics

With this recording the acclaimed ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, led by director Krijn Koetsveld, have come full circle and at last completed their monumental undertaking of a complete cycle of Claudio Monteverdi’s books of madrigals. In bringing this endeavour to a close the group have returned to their starting point, recording a fresh take of perhaps the most famous set, Monteverdi’s groundbreaking Books V & VI, previously released by Le Nuove Musiche one decade ago at the start of this musical journey.

Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey - The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)

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Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey - The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)

Ensemble Altera & Christopher Lowrey - The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 307 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:10:24
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Alpha Classics

The American countertenor Christopher Lowrey founded the vocal ensemble Altera ‘to form the beating heart of professional choral music in the United States’. Now regarded as one of the finest and most enterprising choirs on the North American continent, Altera has devised this musical tour through sacred territories which focuses on epic narratives from various periods, from Renaissance music to the present day. The programme includes timeless works by Gibbons, Lotti, Scheidt and Bruckner, as well as twentieth-century compositions by Poulenc, Messiaen and others. Barber’s celebrated Adagio sits alongside the moving Salvator Mundi , taken from Herbert Howells’s Requiem . Not forgetting three world premiere recordings of works written or arranged for Altera by composers Joanna Marsh, Zuzanna Koziej, and Michael Garrepy, who has arranged Were you there?

Le Palais Royal & Jean-Philippe Sarcos - Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi) (2024)

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Le Palais Royal & Jean-Philippe Sarcos - Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi) (2024)

Le Palais Royal & Jean-Philippe Sarcos - Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi) (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 264 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:46:22
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Aparté

Baroque Italy still conceals many works that are too rarely performed. Here, ensemble Le Palais royal brings together Lotti's Credo, Rubino's Lauda Jerusalem, Vivaldi's Laetatus sum and Scarlatti's splendid Stabat Mater. Brilliant, virtuosic and richly ornamented, these pieces were composed for festivities and celebrations, and reflect the effervescence and opulence of the Italian cities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Far from the smooth, cold marble, the ensemble's performance on period instruments reveals all the asperities, reliefs and volumes of a language and music that it sculpts like a colourful and sensual material.

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

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The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 169 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral, Renaissance | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68256 | 01:13:06

The Gesualdo Six literally made its name with performances of Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories, but that's not the British vocal consort's only specialty. Each of the singers was trained in the English choral tradition, and sacred works of the 16th and 17th century are close to their hearts. This 2018 Hyperion release is a brief survey of motets by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, John Sheppard, Robert White, John Dunstaple, Thomas Morley, John Taverner, William Cornysh, Orlando Gibbons, and Robert Parsons, which represent the changing theological and liturgical aspects of English religion in the Renaissance. The ensemble, conducted by Owain Park, sings with evenly blended tones and an extraordinary harmonic richness, notwithstanding the assignment of one voice to a part and the exposed polyphony that sometimes creates an austere effect. Also quite noticeable are the cross-relations that add poignant dissonances to the counterpoint, as in Tallis' Loquebantur variis linguis, Taverner's Quemadmodum, Gibbons' O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not, and Parsons' Deliver me from mine enemies. This album was recorded in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, where The Gesualdo Six gave its first performances, and the sound is enhanced by vibrant acoustics that give the group a radiant aural halo.

The Benedict XVI Choir & Orchestra, Richard Sparks - Frank La Rocca: Requiem for the Forgotten; Messe des Malades (2024)

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The Benedict XVI Choir & Orchestra, Richard Sparks - Frank La Rocca: Requiem for the Forgotten; Messe des Malades (2024)

The Benedict XVI Choir & Orchestra, Richard Sparks - Frank La Rocca: Requiem for the Forgotten; Messe des Malades (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 285 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:00
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Cappella Records

Cappella Records proudly announces the release of Frank La Rocca’s Requiem for the Forgotten – Messe des Malades, performed by Benedict XVI Choir and Orchestra, directed by renowned international conductor Richard Sparks.

Choir of Girton College, Cambridge - Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Vol. 4 (2024)

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Choir of Girton College, Cambridge - Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Vol. 4 (2024)

Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, The Western Wyndes, Jeremy West & Gareth Wilson - Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Vol. 4: Missa Gustate et Videte; Motets for Holy Week and Easter (2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital booklet | 01:16:43 | 180 Mb
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Toccata Classics

The Cremonese composer Marc’Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535/36–92) is chiefly remembered as the teacher of Claudio Monteverdi while, for well-nigh 500 years, his own achievements were left to sit in the shadows. This fourth in a series of pioneering recordings from the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, presents a sequence of music for Holy Week and Easter, confirming Ingegneri to have been one of the masters of his age. The striking range of moods heard here will confound conventional expectations of Renaissance polyphony: Ingegneri’s emotional palette extends from tender intimacy in some of these motets to dancing, celebratory jubilation in the Mass setting – all of it music of breathtaking richness and beauty.

David Geringas, DR, Stefan Parkman - Gubaidulina: The Canticle Of The Sun; Hommage a Marina Tsvetayeva (2003)

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David Geringas, DR, Stefan Parkman - Gubaidulina: The Canticle Of The Sun; Hommage a Marina Tsvetayeva (2003)

Sofia Gubaidulina - The Canticle Of The Sun; Hommage à Marina Tsvetayeva (2003)
David Geringas, cello; Danish National Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stefan Parkman

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 192 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10106 | Time: 00:54:52

When in the first decade of the twentieth century, pioneering Russian creative artists turned to the sun for inspiration, they saw this theme as a symbol of liberation from turn-of-the-century decadence. In The Canticle of the Sun the power of the sun celebrates two liberating forces: specifically, the dedicatee, Mstislav Rostropovich, who shed light in the darkness of the later Soviet years (Gubaidulina has even spoken of the work embodying his ‘sunny personality’) and more generally, the spiritual sources which the composer has explored through her own musical journey within and beyond Soviet Russia. The Canticle of the Sun is a response to a text by St Francis of Assisi, in which he humbly glorifies the creator. Gubaidulina, aware that the music should not be ostentatious or complicated, suggests the mysteries of creation and humanity through solo cello and percussion, and places St Francis’s text in the restrained mouths of the choir as a kind of wondering response. The second work on this disc is a setting of five poems by Marina Tsvetayeva for unaccompanied choir.

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral & Simon Johnson - Lumen Christi: A sequence of music for the Easter Vigil (2024)

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The Choir of Westminster Cathedral & Simon Johnson - Lumen Christi: A sequence of music for the Easter Vigil (2024)

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral & Simon Johnson - Lumen Christi: A sequence of music for the Easter Vigil (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 346 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:34
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ad Fontes

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is the crowning jewel of Catholic church music and has been at the forefront of English sacred music since its foundation in 1901. This new disc draws us into the mystery of the Paschal Vigil, the very apex of the Church’s liturgical year, transporting us on a journey from darkness into light through a sequence of plainsong and polyphony. It is the first album under the choir’s current director, Simon Johnson, picking up where Vexilla Regis (AF002) left off, and immerses the listener in the Cathedral’s own unique treasury of liturgical music, including compositions crafted by its former musicians, as well as repertoire at the heart of the choir’s work, represented here in polyphony by Victoria, Monteverdi and L’Héritier’s glorious Surrexit pastor bonus.

English Chamber Orchestra, Lawrence Schwartz - Elias: The Prayer Cycle (1999)

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English Chamber Orchestra, Lawrence Schwartz - Elias: The Prayer Cycle (1999)

English Chamber Orchestra, Lawrence Schwartz - Elias: The Prayer Cycle (1999)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 278 MB | 51:32
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

The Prayer Cycle is a surprisingly spiritual and moving album masterminded by composer Jonathan Elias, featuring an all-star cast culled from the pop, rock, and world music arenas (including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Alanis Morissette, Perry Farrell, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Ofra Haza, Salif Keita, and more). The album is structured as a nine-movement suite, with each movement dedicated to a different spiritual quality. Elias' material elicits passionate, committed performances from the assembled artists, making it a deeply felt statement on bridging cross-cultural differences.

Michael Waldron, London Choral Sinfonia - Mirabilis: The music of Stephen Hough (2023)

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Michael Waldron, London Choral Sinfonia - Mirabilis: The music of Stephen Hough (2023)

Michael Waldron, London Choral Sinfonia - Mirabilis: The music of Stephen Hough (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 75:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics | # ORC100256 | Recorded: 2023

Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a worldwide career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. "My father said that I had memorised seventy nursery rhymes by the age of two. This sounds suspiciously like parental exaggeration to me, but I do know that such singing was my first form of musical expression, especially as we had no classical music in my childhood home. Then, by the age of six, the piano took over… but song remained in the background."