VA - Sacred Music: Cornerstone Works of Sacred Music '2009

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Album name	Sacred Music: Cornerstone Works of Sacred Music
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Date	2009
Genre	Classical \ Spiritual
Play time	1:10:58:18
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	8.57 GB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

30 Ã— CD, CD-ROM, Compilation, Box

CD1 Early Christian Chant (5th -13th Century)
Chant, chant, chant! You wont want to listen to this many times unless you are a
chant specialist.

CD2 Gregorian Chant
Includes Messe de Requiem gregorienne, Cistercian Chant and Magnus liber organi
More chant...

CD3 Birth of Polyphony (1100-1300)
Includes music from Notre-Dame School, hockets from the Bamberg Manuscript,
etc., etc. Now its getting more interesting!

CD4 Polyphonic Motet from Ars Antiqua to the Renaissance
Includes 14th Century English music (Hilliard Ensemble), Dufay, Dunstable,
Plummer, and from the Renaissance Desprez, Janequin, Byrd, Gesualdo and Hassler

CD5&6 Polyphonic Mass from Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame, Desprez - Missa Pange Lingua, Janequin - Messe
`La Bataille
Lassus - Missa `Tous les regretz, Palestrina - Missa `Viri Galilaei, Byrd - Mass
for 4 Voices

CD7 French `Petit Motet and `Grand Motet
Dumont, Lully, Delalande and Charpentier Te Deum.

CD8 Lamentations & Tenebrae
Music by Massaino, Lassus, Charpentier, Couperin, and Krenek

CD9/10 Monteverdi Vespro della beata Vergine - Herreweghe
In my opinion not such a good recording as the one by Rene Jacobs, but nice to
have to compare.
Also Vespro Solenne by G Rovetta (1596-1668) from Cantus Colln and Konrad
Junghanel. This is beautiful!

CD11/12 Alessandro Scarlatti - Cain overo Il Primo Omicidio - Rene Jacobs
A great recording of Scarlattis oratorio of the story of Cain and Abel. Good
orchestral playing, excellent soloists.

CD13/14 Handel - Messiah - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
A very creditable Messiah. It certainly beats both my Huddersfield Choral
Society and my Bernstein version, and comes pretty close to the more exciting
Rene Jacobs version. The soloists here are good - Barbara Schlick, Sandrine
Piau, Andreas Scholl (excellent), Mark Padmore and Nathan Berg.

CD15/16 Mendelssohn - Paulus - Herreweghe
This work was new to me, and on a single hearing is beautifully performed, if
perhaps a little understated.

CD17 Music for the Reformed Church
Music by Sermisy, LEstocart, Tallis, Purcell, Schutz, Bruhns and a Missa brevis
in F by Bach.
The Bruhns cantata made me want to investigate his music further.

CD18&19 Bach - Christmas Oratorio - Rene Jacobs
A simply stunning recording. Soloists are Dorothea Roschmann, Andreas Scholl,
Werner Gura and Klaus Hager.

CD20&21 Stabat Mater
On these CDs we get Stabat Maters by Pergolesi (the well known Rene
Jacobs/Sebastian Hennig performance), Boccherini (Agnes Mellon/Ensemble
415/Chiara Banchini), Vivaldi (Scholl/Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini) and Rossini
(RIAS Kammerchor/Creed). The Rossini work was new to me, and particularly
appealed.

CD22/23/24 Requiem
On three CDs we get the Requiems by Mozart (Herreweghe), Brahms (Herreweghe),
Faure (1893 version) (also Herreweghe), and Durufle (Magdalen College Oxford)

CD25/26/27/28 19th & 20th Centuries
Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (Herreweghe), Mendelssohn - various motets, Bruckner
- motets
Poulenc - 8 motets & Messe en Sol majeur, Bernstein - Mass - what a gloriously
mixed up work - bass guitar meets marching band with a bit of West Side Story
and Jesus Christ Superstar thrown in for good measure!

CD29 Orthodox Church Music - 80mins
Various pieces from the 17th & 18th century and Rachmaninov - All Night Vigil
Op37 Vespers all superbly sung by the Estonian Chamber Choir.

CD30 PDF file of all the texts

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