Since you are interested in Pictures at an Exhibition (with Stravinsky - Rite of Spring), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ANONYMOUS
Ecole de Notre Dame: Mass for Christmas Day Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum, relive Mass for Christmas Day as it was sung in the prestigious setting of the School of Notre Dame in paris, the cradle of western polyphony. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
El canto de Auroros (Traditional Polyphony in Murcia) Alia Musica, Miguel Sanchez [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] A collection derived from ancient musical traditions where groups of men sing a variety of religious texts, including polyphonic greetings to the "Virgen de la Aurora", from vespers until dawn, first released in 1998. |
WILLIAM BYRD
Masses for 3, 4 & 5 voices Deller Consort / Alfred Deller [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Alfred Deller was born 31 May 1912 at Margate, England. |
PURCELL
King Arthur (complete) Deller Consort / The King's Musick, Alfred Deller - director [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 20/May/2011 ] It was with Henry Purcell, the greatest of 17th century English composers that the semi-opera, that specifically English genre, reached its apogee. |
ANONYMOUS / BYRD / CUTTING / JOHNSON / MORLEY / etc
Shakespeare Songs Desmond Dupre-lute, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller-director [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] There can be no doubt that music played a considerable role in Shakespeare's plays, although very little of it has survived. |
SCHUTZ
The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross Ensemble Clement Janequin / Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse / Visse [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 11/May/2003 ] a serene meditation which the music raises to the level of contemplation |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Provencal Organs Francis Chapelet / Michel Chapuis / Lucienne Antonini / Rena Saorgin [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Between the beginning of the 15th century and the death of Henry IV (1610) the polyphonists of the Dukes of Burgundy took the works of the Franco-Flemish School as far afield as Italy and Spain. In the wake of the musicians followed the... |
BRAHMS
Quintets Op.111 & 115 Garard Caussa (viola) Michel Portal (clarinet) / Melos Quartett [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] The supreme masterpiece among his chamber works featuring the clarinet, this sublime opus 115 is undoubtedly one of the composer's most popular works. |
MONTEVERDI
Lamento d'Arianna Helga Maller-Molinari / Concerto Vocale / Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] The Lamento d'Arianna was incontestably Monteverdi's most famous composition during his own lifetime, and he himself considered it to be the only one worthy of leaving to posterity. |