[ Brilliant Classics / 25 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 23 February 2018
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This unique box‐set presents a musical journey through one of the most crucial episodes of Christianity: the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It tells of the deepest sorrow and anguish in the Lamentation and Stabat Mater, the moving story of the Passion, and the luminous joy of the Resurrection and the Ascension.
Included are works by Allegri, Byrd, Weelkes, Josquin, Palestrina, Gesualdo, Schütz, Pergolesi, Sturla, J.S. & C.P.E. Bach, Sturla, Telemann, Handel, Arvo Pärt, and many more.
Performed by world class choirs and ensemble, like the King's College Choir, the Clare College Choir, La Stravaganza Köln, Cappella Augustana, Rheinische Kantorei and others.
A superb collection of the most moving music ever composed, expressing both the suffering and the consolation of humanity.
Artists:
Capella Tiberina ∙ Cappella Artemisia
Cappella Augustana
Chamber Choir of Europe
Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim
Chapelle Du Roi
La Stravaganza Köln
Il Concento Ecclesiastico
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Brandenburg Consort
Tonus Peregrinus
Collegium Vocale der Bach‐Chores Siegen
Ensemble Arte Musica
Freiburger Vokalensemble L'arpa festante
Motettenchor Pforzheim
Rheinische Kantorei
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn Das kleine
Konzert
Stuttgart Kammerchor
and many more
16th century Lamentations by Allegri, Byrd, Gesualdo,
Josquin, Kirbye, Palestrina, Ramsey, Tallis, Tomkins,
Victoria and Weelkes
Tallis: The Lamentations and Contrafacta
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsoria
Schütz: Matthäus‐Passion
J.S. Bach: Matthäus‐Passion, Johannes‐Passion
Sturla: Passio di Venerdì Santo (Passione secondo
Giovanni)
Telemann: Das selige Erwägen des bittern
Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christ, St Matthew Passion, Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
Pärt: Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina
Haydn Stabat Mater, Die sieben letzten Worte (Oratorio)
Weep and Rejoice: Music for Holy Week from the Convents of 17th‐century Italy
Handel: Messiah
C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und
Himmelfahrt Jesu, Gott hat den Herrn auferweckt