Musica Sacra - Sacred Music Through The Ages / Deller, et al [Box set]
On this CD:
1. Gloria laus, versus de L'eveque Theodulfe d'Orleans
Composed by Gregorian Chant
2. Cum Audisset, antiphon
Composed by Anonymous
3. Collegerunt pontifices, Gallican antiphon
Composed by Gregorian Chant
4. Popule meus, Gallican antiphon
Composed by Gregorian Chant
5. Omnes amici, responsory in mode 3
Composed by Gregorian Chant
6. Tristis est anima mea, responsory
Composed by Gregorian Chant
7. O vos omnes, lamentation for Holy Thursday (Lamentations 1, 10-14)
Composed by Gregorian Chant
8. Ecce quomodo, responsory
Composed by Gregorian Chant
9. Tenebrae factae sunt, responsory in 7th mode
Composed by Gregorian Chant
10. Incipit Lamentatio
Composed by Gregorian Chant
11. Missa "Pange Lingua", for 4 parts
Composed by Josquin Desprez
12. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, motet for chorus & continuo, BWV 225
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Academy for Early Music, Bernarda Fink, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Peter Kooy, Sibylla Rubens, Gerd Turk
Conducted by Rene Jacobs
13. Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, motet for chorus & continuo, BWV 226
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Academy for Early Music, Bernarda Fink, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Peter Kooy, Sibylla Rubens
Conducted by Rene Jacobs
14. Jesu, meine Freude, motet for chorus & continuo, BWV 227
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Academy for Early Music, Bernarda Fink, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Peter Kooy, Sibylla Rubens, Gerd Turk
Conducted by Rene Jacobs
15. Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, motet for chorus & continuo, BWV 228
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Academy for Early Music, Bernarda Fink, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Peter Kooy, Sibylla Rubens
Conducted by Rene Jacobs
16. Komm, Jesu, komm, motet for chorus & continuo, BWV 229
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Academy for Early Music, Bernarda Fink, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Peter Kooy, Sibylla Rubens, Gerd Turk
Conducted by Rene Jacobs
17. Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, motet for chorus & continuo, BWV 230
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Academy for Early Music, Bernarda Fink, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Peter Kooy, Sibylla Rubens, Gerd Turk
Conducted by Rene Jacobs
18. March for kettledrums
Composed by Jacques Danican Philidor
Performed by Marie-Ange Petit
19. Te Deum, motet for 5 vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, H. 146
Composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Conducted by William Christie
20. Assumpta est Maria, mass for 6 vocal soloists, chorus, instruments & continuo, H. 11
Composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Conducted by William Christie
21. Litanies de la Vierge, motet for 6 vocal soloists, chorus, 2 dessus de violes & continuo, H. 83
Composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Conducted by William Christie
22. Mass for soloists, chorus, & orchestra in D major ("Missa Solemnis"), Op. 123
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Champs Elysees Orchestra
with Cornelius Hauptmann, Rosa Mannion, Birgit Remmert, James [tenor] Taylor
Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe
23. Stabat Mater, for soprano, chorus & orchestra, FP 148
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Lyon National Orchestra
with Michele Lagrange
Conducted by Serge Baudo
24. Salve Regina, for chorus, FP 110
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Lyon National Orchestra
with Michele Lagrange
Conducted by Serge Baudo
25. Litanies à la Vierge Noire, for women's chorus & organ (or strings & timpani), FP 82
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Lyon National Orchestra
with Michele Lagrange
Conducted by Serge Baudo
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Boxed in a sturdy, handsomely produced lift-top container, this set of six perennial favorites from the Harmonia Mundi catalog is a beauty. It seeks to catch 10 centuries of sacred music, and it does that and much more. Each of the recordings is lauded, some of them intensely favored, by fans of early music. The Deller Consort's Gregorian Chant collection, for example, has been around for decades, delighting listeners with its austerity and methodical rhythms. It's a prize, as is the inestimable Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum's 1986 recording of Josquin Desprez's Missa pange lingua (available separately as a single CD), by now an early-music evergreen. Peres touches the piece with his curious, rattling brilliance. For the collection of Bach's motets (available separately as a single CD), we get Rene Jacobs and the RIAS-Kammerchor, who tackle these pieces in a recording cut in 1995 with electrifying leaps on the notes. Among the six CDs in this box, none strikes with the thunder of William Christie's Charpentier Te Deum from 1989 (available separately as a single CD), a performance that can easily have even the most spiritually skeptical looking skyward for the deus ex machina that's powering the lit brass and bursting tenors. Then there's the 77-minute Beethoven Missa solemnis (available separately as a single CD), driven by Philippe Herreweghe (in 1995). This is an amazingly heartfelt performance, with waves of force that never stop. Little here packs the deliberate wallop, however, of Francis Poulenc's absurdly mesmerizing Stabat Mater, under the direction of Serge Baudo (available separately as a single CD), who takes this 1985 issue to heights that leave the listener breathless. When slow and in the lower registers, the piece stirs, and when booming with the fever of thinking of the divine, it oscillates the soul. --Andrew Bartlett
Musica Sacra - Sacred Music Through The Ages / Deller, et al, Music, Bernarda Fink, Birgit Remmert, Cornelius Hauptmann, Peter Kooy, Anonymous, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gregorian Chant, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Josquin Desprez, Jacques Danican Philidor, Francis Poulenc, Philippe Herreweghe, Rene Jacobs, Serge Baudo, William Christie, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Les Arts Florissants Orchestra & Chorus, Champs Elysees Orchestra, Orchestre National De Lyon, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Michele Lagrange, Rosa Mannion, Sibylla Rubens, Gerd Turk, James Taylor [tenor], Andre Danican Philidor, Baroque Mass, Baroque Motet, Choral, Classical, Mass, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Motet, Orchestral & Symphonic, Sacred Choral Music, Sacred Choral Music for Female Voices, Sacred Music for Soloist & Chorus, Te Deum, Vocal, Vocal Music, Western European Chant
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