Discover Choral Music: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book

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CHORAL MUSIC
Discover Choral Music: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book
Various artists and performers

[ Naxos Educational / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 17 September 2007

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Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favourites such as John Rutter and Arvo Pärt, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz and Mahler. This comprehensive and comprehensible guide is supported and illustrated by two-and-a-half hours of richly varied music on two CDs.

Singing is a basic form of human expression - whether of worship, sorrow or joy - and the sound of a choir in full cry is a spine-tingling experience. Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favourites such as John Rutter and Arvo Pärt, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz and Mahler. The religious and social background to the music also receives due attention. This comprehensive and comprehensible guide is supported and illustrated by two-and-a-half hours of richly varied music on two CDs.

Tracks:

CD 1
Anon (Gregorian Chant)
Crux fidelis 0.50
Nova Schola Gregoriana / Alberto Turco

Josquin des Prez (c. 1440/55-c. 1521)
Ave Maria gratia plena 5.31
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly

John Taverner (c. 1490-1545)
Missa 'Gloria Tibi Trinitas'
Sanctus (extract) 5.28
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers

John Taverner
Christe Jesu, pastor bone 3.35
Cambridge Singers / John Rutter

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)
In manus tuas, Domine 2.36
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly

William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
Laudibus in sanctis 5.47
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525/6-1594)
Missa 'Aeterna Christi Munera'
Agnus Dei 4.58
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
and much more

CD 2
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
'Dettingen' Te Deum
O Lord, in thee have I trusted 3.56
Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble / Concerto Polacco / Wolfgang Helbich

George Frideric Handel
Samson
Aria and Chorus: 'Let the bright seraphim...' 6.24
The Sixteen / Symphony of Harmony and Invention / Harry Christophers

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mass in C minor, K. 427 ('Great' Mass)
Gloria in excelsis 2.33
Hungarian Radio Chorus / Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia / Michael Halász

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Missa in angustiis ('Nelson' Mass)
Benedictus: Benedictus qui venit 5:33
Benedictus: Hosanna in excelsis 0:44
Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia / Béla Drahos

Franz Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Aria and Chorus: 'Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle' 3.43
Cologne Vocal Ensemble / Capella Augustina / Andreas Spering

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Psalm 42
Finale: 'Warum betrübst du dich' 4:43
Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei / Stuttgart Bach Collegium / Helmuth Rilling

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Os justi 5.07
Choir of St Bride's Church, Fleet Street / Robert Jones

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Requiem, Op. 48
In Paradisum 3.23
Oxford Schola Cantorum Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly

and much more.