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Roger Norrington, London Classical Players, Schutz Choir - Mozart: Requiem, Ave verum corpus, Masonic Funeral Music (2013)

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Roger Norrington, London Classical Players, Schutz Choir - Mozart: Requiem, Ave verum corpus, Masonic Funeral Music (2013)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem, Ave verum corpus, Masonic Funeral Music (2013)
Nancy Argenta, soprano; Catherine Robbon, alto; John Mark Ainsley, tenor; Alastair Miles, bass
Schütz Choir of London; London Classical Players; Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 228 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans ~ 53 Mb
Classical, Choral | Label: Virgin Classics | # 50999 7 35296 2 0 | Time: 00:57:45

The Mozart Requiem is one of the best-known sacred works in the classical repertoire. It was the composer's last work, and he left it unfinished at his death. British conductor Roger Norrington, a pioneer of authentic performing practice, and an outstanding group of singers present Duncan Druce's version of the Requiem, based on the latest Mozart research, together with other moving choral works.

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.

Antonio Pappano - Il maestro. Italian Music by Puccini, Rossini, Verdi (2023)

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Antonio Pappano - Il maestro. Italian Music by Puccini, Rossini, Verdi (2023)

Antonio Pappano - Il maestro. Italian Music by Puccini, Rossini, Verdi (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,15 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 687 Mb | 04:59:32
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

More than 25 years after his first EMI album, Antonio Pappano has established himself as a leading figure of conducting, particularly in music from his native Italy. This collection includes excerpts from all his EMI and Warner Italian recordings, from the famous Verdi and Puccini cycles with Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu to the recent praised versions of Turandot and Rossini’s sacred works.

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."

London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron - Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough (2023)

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London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron - Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough (2023)

London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron - Mirabilis: The Music of Stephen Hough (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 283 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:15
Classical, Choral | Label: Orchid Classics

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." "My first twenty years were filled with composing. Then followed almost twenty years of blank paper, writing virtually nothing except concert transcriptions for me to use as encores. Until, in my early 40s, I returned to composition with a passion…" This release celebrates Hough’s compositional output in works for choir and organ performed by the London Choral Sinfonia, with organist James Orford and conductor Michael Waldron.

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.

Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)

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Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)

Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 69:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9463 | Recorded: 2010

In a scene where the recordings of young sopranos tend toward an extreme sameness, Austria's Anna Prohaska would deserve kudos simply for the ambition of this release of soldiers' songs. The idea, especially for a female singer, is original, and the music draws on a great variety of sources, from Scottish song to Wolfgang Rihm. Better still is the execution, which shows Prohaska's extreme versatility.

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.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa "Dominicus", Vesperae de Dominica (1994)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa "Dominicus", Vesperae de Dominica (1994)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa "Dominicus", Vesperae de Dominica (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 362 Mb | Total time: 75:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 2292 46469-2 | Recorded: 1990

In l769, Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart, who had already excited great wonder as a child prodigy, turned into an adolescent youth. As of 1770, he assumed the name Wolfgang Amadeo, and this had symbolic value: henceforth, he regarded himself definitively as an artist in his own right. The experiences of his travels as a wunderkind now belonged to the past. In addition to the marvellous church music of his native Salzburg, he had got to know the major European music centres, and had been able to familiarize himself with both traditional styles and the latest stylistic trends.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Solemnis K 337 (1993)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Solemnis K 337 (1993)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Solemnis K 337; Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento K 125; Regina Coeli K 276 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 60:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 4509 90494-2 | Recorded: 1992

Come his last mass to be written in Salzburg, Mozart had an ulterior purpose: to annoy the Prince-Archbishop. Einstein highlights the Gloria. It features an extended "Amen". Its prolongation was designed to inflame the cleric who was no fan of florid church-music. Mention should also be made of the Kyrie with its droll interjections - penitential this ain't. The motif that Mozart uses to unify the Credo is a pale imitation of its counterpart in the Coronation Mass. The Salzburger is back to best form with the fugal Benedictus in A Minor; similarly, he later cannibalised the Agnus Dei when he came to write Figaro. Two other works feature on this disc. Note-spinning predominates in the Litany, K 125; it's sole redeeming feature is the high-spirited Kyrie which only Mozart could have written.

Il Gardellino - Handel: Dixit Dominus - Ferrandini: Il pianto di Maria (2023)

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Il Gardellino - Handel: Dixit Dominus - Ferrandini: Il pianto di Maria (2023)

Bart Van Reyn, Il Gardellino, Deborah Cachet, Sophie Rennert, Rachel Redmond & Vlaams Radiokoor - Handel: Dixit Dominus - Ferrandini: Il pianto di Maria (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 288 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | 00:56:24
Classical, Sacred, Choral, Vocal | Label: Passacaille

Handel's Dixit Dominus HWV 232 (1707) is certainly one of the most impressive compositions of his several years in Italy. With this extremely effective piece, the only 22-year-old obviously wanted to demonstrate all of his compositional skills. Il Gardellino and Bart Van Reyn accompany him on their recording with the breathtaking cantata Il Pianto di Maria, which was long attributed to Handel until recent research has shown that it was penned by the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710-1791).