O Vos Omnes [Import]

1. O Vos Omnes

2. Gradual

3. Deep River

4. Jesus Meine Freude

5. O Magnum Misterium

6. I Thank You Jesus

7. Kyrie

8. Agnus Dei

9. Domine

10. Benedictus

11. Hosana

12. Hansel Y Gretel

13. El ;Mediodia

14. Ave Maria

15. Wie Bist Du Doch Schon

16. Lauda Jerusalem Dominum

17. Requiem

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Average customer rating: This is an amazing, amazing product a voice teacher and early music fan Incredible Very inspiring for this Christian (Catholic) Amazing!

O Magnum Mysterium Thomas Tallis , Tomas Luis de Victoria , Morten Lauridsen , Francis Poulenc , Sergey Rachmaninov , Franz Schubert , Anonymous , Spiritual Traditional , Henryk Gorecki , Christopher Cock , Robert Shaw Festival Singers , and Robert Shaw Chamber Singers Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lauridsen | Lauridsen, Morten | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tallis | Tallis, Thomas | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus) Choral Masterpieces Agnus Dei: Music of Inner Harmony Morten Lauridsen: Lux aeterna ASIN: B00004WFLW Release Date: 2000-08-22

Tracks:

1. If Ye Love Me
2. A New Commandment
3. O Vos Omnes
4. O Magnum Mysterium
5. O Magnum Mysterium
6. O Magnum Mysterium
7. Praise The Name Of The Lord
8. Der Entfernten
9. Wondrous Love
10. Amazing Grace
11. Sometimes I Feel Like Moanin'
12. Totus Tuus

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The trademark qualities of a Robert Shaw-trained chorus included perfect tonal blend and balance, expressive phrasing, and superb tuning. As an interpreter, Shaw hewed to the middle road, steering clear of eccentricities and honoring the composer's intentions. On this tribute disc, we hear these virtues coalesce in works such as Poulenc's austere Christmas hymn "O magnum mysterium," one of three settings of the text here. Shaw was at his best in works whose fervent spirituality he shared, and the selection from Rachmaninov's Vespers, with its repeated alleluias, is a highlight, both radiant and passionate. But then, virtually everything here is a highlight: the Schubert part song done to a turn with soft singing projected in rounded tones; the curve of "Wondrous Love"'s melody perfectly traced; and "Amazing Grace" in Shaw's arrangement all the more moving for its calm dignity. The longest piece, Górecki's Marian hymn "Totus tuus," is otherworldly in an enthralled reading that never loses focus. Like all of Shaw's Telarc recordings, the sonics are first-class. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

This is an amazing, amazing product.......2007-02-07

The only part of the CD I would quibble with is the selection from Rachmaninov's Vespers, but I'm really lucky and have heard that performed live several times and heard multiple recordings, and decided on one that I liked best early on.

If you aren't blown away by the performance of the Tallis, you'll probably still cry when you hear the Lauridsen later in the CD. One thing about this CD is that after hearing it, my standard for what I could expect in a recording became a lot higher.

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2007-01-17

When Robert Shaw retired in 1988 as Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra he returned to the conducting of unaccompanied choral music, that he had been involved with in the Robert Shaw Chorale in the 1950's and early 60's.
The selections on this disc are taken from several different Telarc recordings that were made at summer festivals he directed during the last decade of his life.
The Poulenc "O Magnum Mysterium" is one of the four motets on a Christmas album made in 1989. "Wondrous Love", "Amazing Grace", and "Sometimes I Feel Like a Moanin' Dove" are from the collection of 'American Hymns and Spirituals', performed and recorded in 1992. Gorecki's motet "Totus Tuus" appeared on 'Evocation of the Spirit' recorded in 1994.
In the Summer of 1989, the first year of Shaw's choral festivals in France yielded an impressive array of unaccompanied music which included Rachmaninoff's 'Vespers' or 'All Night Vigil', Op.37, the 2 Thomas Tallis pieces and the two in Latin by Vittoria.
"Der Entfernten" comes from a collection of 'Schubert Songs' for Male Chorus taped in the Summer of 1992. Morton Luridsen's 'O magnum mysterium', the most recent composition on this disc as well as the last recorded (1997), was included on 'A Robert Shaw Christmas'.
It is interesting to note that there are no less than three settings of the anonymous medieval text "O Magnum Mysterium". Shaw, a deeply spiritual man, often lamented about the commercialism that had pervaded the celebraton of the American Christmas. He retained a sincere awe for the miraculous details of the Nativity story, and it was natural that he should return again to music having this text, with its wondrous mixture of the homespun and the mystical, the lowly and the most high.

This is a truly interesting variety of compositions featuring a diversified group of fine composers!!!!.Any choral group that Shaw conducted always sang with much emotion and always great skill. There is never a 'ragged' entrance OR exit; there is never poor balance between the voices; the diction is crisp and clear and never 'muddied'; and the sound is ethereally beautiful. I would have liked to know who the personnel were in each of his 2 groups on this disc, but they were not listed, so I guess I never will know. Just a fabulous recording!!!!!

Incredible.......2005-08-02

Who can listen to this without being humbled, yet enriched, as if walking through the courts of sacred and simple places?

Very inspiring for this Christian (Catholic).......2004-07-22

I'd swear that Robert Shaw must have visited heaven and come back to write his rendition of O Magnum Mysterium (particularly track #5 with the chamber singers). It's my favorite classical piece, especially among choral works. I'd love to be in a great gothic cathedral like Notre Dame or Cologne and hear this piece. Even though you'll likely only be hearing this recording through your headphones in your room, it'll take you to the cathedrals and heaven itself.

I read somewhere that Robert Shaw was deeply religious/spiritual. I have no reason to doubt this...his faith shines through on this disk. I couldn't recommend it highly enough.

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." - Revelation 21

Amazing!.......2004-02-10

In my choir at school, we are singing O Magnum Mysterium; I can't help from sinking into its soft harmonies. How to describe this feeling?--each bar more poignant than the last; dynamically profound; crystal clear tone; that clash between tenors in the chorus...it makes me believe in love and god all at once! Spectacular, this CD is--how lucky I am to have found it. Recommended to anyone with hearing.

Average customer rating: Quality singing, great selection peut-être ... Bizarre but obsessively fascinating music Excellent cross-section of Gesualdo's sacred style Splendid

Gesualdo: Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Gesualdo | Gesualdo, Carlo | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lassus: Masses for Five Voices; Infelix ego Obrecht: Missa Caput; Salve Regina Willaert: Missa Christus Resurgens, Magnificat Sexti Toni, etc / Summerly, Oxford Camerata Gesualdo: Tenebrae Palestrina: Missa Hodie Christus natus est; Stabat Mater; Lasus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera ASIN: B0000013XI Release Date: 1996-01-04

Tracks:

1. Sacrae Cantiones: Illumina faciem tuam
2. Sacrae Cantiones: Deus refugium et virtus
3. Sacrae Cantiones: Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam
4. Sacrae Cantiones: Tribulationem et dolorem
5. Sacrae Cantiones: Tribularer si nescirem
6. Sacrae Cantiones: Precibus et meritis beatae Mariae
7. Sacrae Cantiones: O Crux benedicta
8. Sacrae Cantiones: O vos omnes
9. Sacrae Cantiones: Dignare me laudare te
10. Sacrae Cantiones: Maria mater gratiae
11. Sacrae Cantiones: Laboravi in gemitu meo
12. Sacrae Cantiones: Ave dulcissima Maria
13. Sacrae Cantiones: Domine ne despicias
14. Sacrae Cantiones: Peccantem me quotidie
15. Sacrae Cantiones: Sancti Spiritus Domine
16. Sacrae Cantiones: Hei mihi Domine
17. Sacrae Cantiones: Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem
18. Sacrae Cantiones: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
19. Sacrae Cantiones: Ave Regina coelorum

Customer Reviews:

Quality singing, great selection.......2007-03-28

A fine collection, not Gesualdo's most adventurous music but beautiful nonetheless.

peut-être ..........2005-08-19

Ce disque est une belle démonstration du savoir-faire
de Gésualdo.
Toutefois, il me semble que la prise de son
est beaucoup trop réverbérée. Néanmoins, disque peu cher.

Bizarre but obsessively fascinating music.......2005-05-28

Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560 - 1613) was rich, artistic, and - as the second son of a noble Neapolitan family - free to indulge his passion for music. But when his brother died, and it was decreed that he must carry on the line. The bride found for him - Donna Maria d'Avalos - was his cousin, and the greatest beauty in town. Don Carlo (who may have been gay) fathered a son, whereupon his interests wandered elsewhere to music and to hunting. One day his uncle divulged to him that the attention starved Donna Maria was enjoying a brazen affair with the handsome Duke of Andria, in which they would "invite each other to battle on the fields of love". Alerting her to the fact that Don Carlo now knew about their affair, the Duke tried to convince Donna Maria to end her affair, but she defiantly announced that she would rather die. Thus was the scene set for Don Carlo's historic deed.

One day in October of 1590 Don Carlo secretly disabled the house locks before accouncing his departure on a hunt. He set off, but only to sneek back in the still of night with his henchmen to catch the sleeping lovers - exhausted by their love making - by surprise. The chronicles detail each event: The night-dress Donna Maria asked to be put out on the bed for her lover, about the maid posted as sentinel, and the sudden commotion as Don Carlo and his men burst in to find the pair "in flagrante delicto di fragrante peccato" , about the gun shots and multiple sword-thrusts, and the way Don Carlo couldn't rest until he had cut his victims to ribbons, and had personally skewered Donna Maria to the floor all the while repeating to himself "I do not believe she is dead". He dragged the bodies out onto the stairs, posting a notice explaining why he had killed them for all the town to come to gape at the next morning. The Duke was still clad in the women's night-dress prepared for him, while Donna Maria's "wounds were all in her belly, and especially in those parts which ought to be kept honest".

Neapolitans were horrified, with as many taking the lovers' side as that of their murderer. Despite vows of vengeance by Donna Maria's family, Don Carlo's nobility ensured he escaped trial, and he withdrew to Ferrara, where he remarried, but was soon "afflicted by a vast horde of demons which gave him no peace unless twelve young men, whom he kept specially for the purpose, were to beat him violently three times a day, during which operation he was wont to smile joyfully."

Don Carlo built a private chapel, completed in 1592. Inside hung a painting depicting the Virgin Mary and saints all pointing to the sinner, Don Carlo, while the fires of purgatory burnt below - out of which angels pull the figures of a man and a woman. Could these be the murdered lovers before which Don Carlo implored forgiveness? His music certainly becomes filled with an obession with themes of guilt, sin, pity, and death - even the joy of love being mixed with a fascination with pain: 'dolorosa gioia', such 'joyous pain' being a typical outburst.

Without doubt the music written by the prince of Verona is some of the most macabre yet outlandishly fantastic music ever written. The famous unprepared chromatic side steps remain decidedly unnerving even to a devoted Second Viennese School fan like me. The effect of the chromatic spirals is often vertigo inducing but also deeply moving and ultimately awe-inspiring. This is truly sublime music by a neglected genius.

The performances here are amongst the very best available of Gesualdo's music - at any price. This would be a perfect place to start exploring this bizarre but inspired musical universe. I agree - you should rush out and grab this superb recording without a moment's hesitation.

Excellent cross-section of Gesualdo's sacred style.......2003-09-24

This is a very good collection of Gesualdo's sacred motet style, performed beautifully. Most of these pieces are much more conservative and less chromatic than his madrigals, but they are exquisite and expresive and every bit as competent as the styles of contemporaries such as Gesualdo's alter-ego, Palestrina. Much of this music makes his mental turmoil and fear of damnation over his infamous murders achingly clear, especially the disturbing mode changes and chromaticism on parts of the text that say things like "have mercy on me" and words like "my sorrow and "my tears".

Splendid.......1999-09-26

RUN TO BUY THIS! This is by far one of the best CD's of Gesualdo's music on the market today. Superb blend (especially in track 1) especially for music this difficult.

Average customer rating: My favorite album. English church music at its finest. The grand tradition of English music music of great beauty Excellent Selection, Excellent Performance Best all-in-one English music CD ever

Treasures of English Church Music Manufacturer: Collegium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Dering, Richard | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Elgar | Elgar, Sir Edward | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gibbons, Orlando | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Howells, Herbert | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rutter | Rutter, John | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sheppard | Sheppard, John | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tallis | Tallis, Thomas | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tavener | Tavener, John Kenneth | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Taverner | Taverner, John | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walton | Walton, Sir William | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Music of St. Paul's Cathedral A Vaughan Williams Hymnal Praise to the Lord - Hymns From St. Paul's Cathedral Abide With Me The Psalms of David from Kings Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000031I6 Release Date: 1995-12-12

Tracks:

1. Music Of The Latin Rite: Ave Maria
2. Music Of The Latin Rite: Loquebantur variis linguis
3. Music Of The Latin Rite: Miserere mei
4. Haec dies
5. Music Of The Latin Rite: Ave verum corpus
6. Music Of The Reformation: If Ye Love Me
7. Music Of The Reformation: Hide Not Thou Thy Face
8. Music Of The Reformation: Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake
9. Music Of The Reformation: O Clap Your Hands
10. Music Of The Reformation: Bow Thine Ear
11. Music Of The Reformation: Hosanna To The Son Of David
12. Music Of The Restoration: Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry
13. Music Of The Restoration: Thou Knowest, Lord
14. Music Of The Restoration: Hear My Prayer, O Lord
15. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: Beati quorum via
16. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: This Joyful Eastertide
17. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: Sing Lullaby
18. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: A Spotless Rose
19. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: What Cheer?
20. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: O Taste And See
21. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: A Hymn To The Virgin
22. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: Jesus Christ The Apple Tree
23. The Anglican Revival And The Twentieth Century: Faire Is The Heaven
24. Anthems And Introits: Rejoice In The Lord
25. Anthems And Introits: Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences
26. Anthems And Introits: Come, Let's Rejoice
27. Anthems And Introits: When David Heard
28. Anthems And Introits: I Sat Down Under His Shadow
29. Anthems And Introits: These Are They That Follow The Lamb
30. Latin Motets: Christe Jesu, pastor bone
31. Latin Motets: O beatum et sacrosanctum diem
32. Latin Motets: Nunc dimittis
33. Latin Motets: O vos omnes
34. Latin Motets: Factum est silentium
35. Latin Motets: Justorum animae
36. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: Hail, Gladdening Light
37. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: A Hymn To The Mother Of God
38. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: Hymn For The Dormition Of The Mother Of God
39. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: They Are At Rest
40. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: A Litany
41. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: Nolo mortem peccatoris
42. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: O nata lux
43. Settings Of Hymns And Other Poetry: Loving Shepherd Of Thy Sheep
44. Prayer Settings: The Lord's Prayer
45. Prayer Settings: In manus tuas
46. Prayer Settings: Bring Us, O Lord God

Customer Reviews:

My favorite album. English church music at its finest........2005-10-06

Whether you have a couple dozen albums of English choral music or whether you're looking for an introduction to English choral music, this two CD collection is a must. Here you will find a wide selection of sacred favorites, from Gregorian chant to Ralph Vaughan Williams. It's a misnomer to call it "Anglican," since this would exclude (in addition to, of course, the pre-Reformation Latin hymns) the likes of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd -- both Catholics that kept to the ancient faith despite Elizabeth's (albeit relatively mild) persecutions. Tallis and Byrd set the standard in the 16th century for the distinctive "Englishness" (as opposed to Continental European) style of English choral music, with its soaring majesty yet somehow coupled with a subtle and sustained beauty (as opposed to the Continental ups and downs and often tiresome exaggerations). For those of us in the English-speaking world, this is our heritage. Let's treasure it. As for the recording itself, the mixing is superb. While listening, it's quite easy to imagine yourself in the beautiful King's College Chapel or perhaps heaven itself.

The grand tradition of English music.......2005-09-23

Recorded in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, the Cambridge Singers under the direction of John Rutter produced a duo of discs dedicated to Music of the English Church previously issued as two separate discs, 'Hail, Gladdening Light', and its companion piece, 'Faire is the Heaven'. The discs here are straight copies of those discs; hence, if you have those already, there is no need to purchase this - on the other hand, if you do not have the other discs, this is a bargain.

--Music--
This is all unaccompanied music, sung in a cathedral chapel acoustically suited for such music. The first disc has four primary sections: Music of the Latin Rite; Music of the Reformation; Music of the Restoration; and Anglican Revival and the twentieth century. The most famous composers in English music history -- Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons -- combine with later masters such as Purcell, Stanford, Howells, Walton, Britten and Vaughan Williams to form a truly masterful collection. These are anthems, hymns and other liturgical pieces that have remained important in Anglican worship, and can be often heard in situ on Sundays around the world. However, the Cambridge Singers bring their special music talent to the task, producing a good standard bearer for music of the English Church.

On the second disc, there are six Latin motets, set by composers such as Taverner, Howells, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Philips and Dering. Anthens and Introits include notables Tomkins and Purcell, and lesser-known composers such as Amner, Bairstow and Goss. Hymns span the range from old to modern, including a hymn by John Rutter himself. The disc ends with three prayer settings, including one by the underappreciated John Sheppard, and another from William Harris, whose hymn serves as the title to the companion disc. These anthems and hymns show a powerful range of music, yet show a consistent tone also that makes it rather distinctive of the music of the English church.

The group's power and grace is second to none, particularly when singing this kind of music in a place such as Ely Cathedral, arguably the most natural of settings possible.

--Liner Notes--
The notes for this recording include the titles and words of each anthem or hymn. The notes for each piece also includes brief biographical information of the composer, and unique information about each work, when particular composers are represented more than once. One thing conspicuously missing is much biographical information about John Rutter, or any descriptive information about the Cambridge Singers apart from the most basic of information.

--John Rutter--
Rutter was born in London and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. This was where his career as a composer, arranger and conductor began. His early work was with groups at King's College Chapel at Cambridge as well as the Bath Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked for the BBC providing music for educational series such as 'The Archaeology of the Bible Lands', until in 1979 he began forming the Cambridge Singers, and has continued a remarkable career of performance and recording as their director ever since.

--The Cambridge Singers--
The Cambridge Singers are a mixed choir of voices, many of whom were members of choir of Rutter's college, Clare College, Cambridge. While they specialise in English and Latin liturgical pieces, they have a wide range of recordings that span from modern compositions (including a remarkable requiem by Rutter) to English folk songs of the Middle Ages. Many are former members of the choir of Clare College and other Cambridge collegiate choirs (hence the name, Cambridge Singers). In the quarter-century since the founding, the Cambridge Singers have produced an impressive body of recordings.

music of great beauty.......2005-04-24

Pop one of these CDs into your car stero, turn up the volume and feel yourself drift into a sublime peace. Can music manifest the existence of God?

Excellent Selection, Excellent Performance.......2004-07-28

This two-CD compilation by the Cambridge Singers is truly very good. The repertoire is very diverse and only the best representations of composers and time periods are performed. ALthough most of the pieces were not written with a mixed choir in mind, the Cambridge Singers sing it so well you would not have had any idea. Their performances are careful and exquisite.

Best all-in-one English music CD ever.......2004-04-20

This is a re-release, as one set, of two of my favorite CDs ever: "Faire is the Heaven" and "Hail Gladdening Light" by the Cambridge singers. This is a fabulous compilation of everyone's favorite works from the English Cathedral tradition, all the way from Taverner (16th century) to Tavener (21st century). The selection of works is great and touches all the most important genres. The performance is exquisite, elegant, faultless. The Cambridge Singers have a softer, less edgy sound than the Tallis Scholars, and are more expressive, which may make them easier for some people to listen to, especially for the more recent works. They are no less musical. The Parsons Ave Maria alone brings one to tears. If you want an introduction to English church music, this is the CD to start with. Also makes a great gift, if you already love this music and want to introduce someone else to it.

Average customer rating: Sublime! Faultless performances Sublime music and perfect interpretations As with others by Concerto Palatino, First Rate

Heinrich Schütz: Symphoniae Sacrae, 1629 Manufacturer: Accent Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Palatino | ( C ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Schütz: Symphoniæ Sacræ III Schutz: Motets & Concertos (Ger) Schütz: German Requiem: The Seven Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross Schütz: Psalmen Davids Heinrich Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte ASIN: B000004433 Release Date: 1999-01-01

Tracks:

1. Domine, Labia Mea Aperies (SWV 271) - Barbara Borden/Douglas Nasrawi
2. Cantabo Domino In Vita Mea (SWV 260) - John Potter
3. Fili Mi, Absolon (SWV 269) - Harry Van Der Kamp
4. Paratum Cor Meum, Deus (SWV 257) - Barbara Borden
5. Anima Mea Liquifacta Est (Prima Pars-SWV 263) - John Potter/Douglas Nasrawi
6. Adjuro Vos, Filiae Jerusalem (Secunda Pars-SWV 264) - John Potter/Douglas Nasrawi
7. Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra (SWV 262) - Harry Van Der Kamp
8. In Lectulo Per Noctes (Prima Pars-SWV 272) - Barbara Borden/Rogers Covey-Crump
9. In Venerunt Me Custodes Civitatis (Secunda Pars-SWV 273) - Barbara Borden/Rogers Covey-Crump
10. O Quam Tu Pulchra Es, Amica Mea (Prima Pars-SWV 265) - John Potter/Douglas Nasrawi
11. Veni De Libano, Amica Mea (Secunda Pars-SWV 266) - John Potter/Douglas Nasrawi
12. In Te, Domine, Speravi (SWV 259) - Rogers Covey-Crump

Tracks:

1. Benedicam Dominum In Omni Tempore (Prima Pars-SWV 267) - Barbara Borden/John Potter/Harry Van Der Kamp
2. Exquisivi Dominum (Secunda Pars-SWV 268) - Barbara Borden/John Potter/Harry Van Der Kamp
3. Attendite, Popule Meus (SWV 270) - Harry Van Der Kamp
4. Venite Ad Me Omnes Qui Laboratis (SWV 261) - Douglas Nasrawi
5. Veni, Dilecte Mi (SWV 274) - Barbara Borden/Nele Gramss/Douglas Nasrawi
6. Exultavit Cor Meum In Domino (SWV 258) - Barbara Borden
7. Buccinate In Neomenia Tuba (Prima Pars-SWV 275) - John Potter/Douglas Nasrawi/Harry Van Der Kamp
8. Jubilate Deo (Seconda Pars-SWV 276) - Barbara Borden/Nele Gramss/Rogers Covey-Crump/John Potter/Douglass Nasrawi/Harry Van Der Kamp

Customer Reviews:

Sublime!.......2006-04-27

The composer: Heinrich Schutz, contemporary of Montiverdi, student of Giovanni Gabrielli, devout Catholic, and expat in Venice. Famous in his day and remains well-known. Fled to Venice to escape the 30 Years' War in his native Germany.

The Work: Symphoni? Sacr? I was written after Schutz returned to Venice. It was, in format and title, an homage to Gabrielli. A sublime piece of semi-ecclesiastical work, it is a setting for voice and instruments of many of Schutz' favorite verses from scripture, heavy on Song of Solomon, so expect a love theme. The whole work is superb but track 5- Anima Mea Liquifacta Est, Track 10- O, Quam Tu Pulchram Est, and 11- Veni di Libanon, are particularly beautiful. You can almost hear the mingling of divine and human love in the Symphoni? Sacr? I.

The performance: Period instruments are wonderful and the performance is flawless. As with their other recordings, Concerto Palatino does a wonderful job.

The Product: 2 CD's, both fine quality. Copious notes and full libretto with translations.

Flaws: Translations of the Latin are abominable in places, only fair in others. Translations to the English are generally only so-so, to German are consistently inept.

Faultless performances.......2005-12-03

I must agree with my Australian friend, as I have also owned this recording for years and regularly come back to it. The motets from Symphoniae Sacrae I are small in scale, but are all extremely beautiful. Apart from his Psalmen Davids (1619), this collection is my favorite of Schutz's published output.

The music is unfailingly expressive and innovative, plus the performances given are perfectly judged and do great justice to these fantastic works. There is constant variety of voices and instrumentation such that no two motets share the same scoring. I especially like In lectio per noctes which employs three curtals under soprano and alto voices. It's an exquisite texure.

This is a recording any fan of Schutz should not be without.

Sublime music and perfect interpretations.......2005-11-03

This recording is a 'desert island disc' of mine. I have played it over and over again since I bought it in 1992.

There are many masterpieces here.
Fili me, Absalon and Attendite, popule meus - each featuring four trombones, solo bass voice and basso continuo. Anima mea liquifacta est/Adjuro vos filiæ Jerusalem - for two mute cornetts, two tenors and basso continuo (perhaps the best work in the set?) and the extroverted Buccinate in neomenia tuba/Jubilate Deo - both parts for two tenors and bass singers, trumpet, cornett, dulcian and basso continuo.
The two works for three dulcians and alto and soprano voices are very atmospheric and sensual.
Some of the works feature a pair of violins accompanying the singers and these are also very beautiful works.

The Symphoniæ Sacræ I of Heinrich Schütz is one of the greatest collections of works in the entire 17th century. Schütz explores a range of human emotions and moods in these works and does so with great clarity and sophistication.

The performances on these two CDs are beyond reproach. I cannot recommend this recording too highly to you - it is a great recordings of great music.
Believe me!

As with others by Concerto Palatino, First Rate.......2000-06-14

These concertos are grander and more expansive than the Kleine Geistliche Konzerte of a few years later, and show Schutz at his most expressive and emotionally intense form.

The performances are excellent and the sound quality very fine.

What more is there to say? If you appreciate Schutz, this is a must have.

Average customer rating: Cantus has done it again! Wonderful

...Against the Dying of the Light Manufacturer: Cantus (Collegium) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Casals, Pablo | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Orff | Orff, Carl | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sibelius | Sibelius, Jean | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thompson | Thompson, Randall | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tormis | Tormis, Veljo | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Let Your Voice Be Heard Deep River Comfort & Joy: Volume Two Comfort and Joy: Volume One There Lies the Home ASIN: B00007HIBV Release Date: 2002-11-01

Tracks:

1. Jean Sibelius: Hymnus (Natus in Curas) op. 21
2. Pablo Casals: O Vos Omnes
3. Carl Orff: Sunt Lacrimae Rerum
4. Veljo Tormis: Varjele, Jumala, Soasta
5. Josquin Des Prez: Absalon, Fili Mi
6. Jean Sibelius: Sydameni Laulu op. 18.No.6
7. Franz Schubert: Grab und Mond D.893
8. Kenneth Jennings: Two Laments on Dylan Thomas
9. Leevi Madetoja: De Profundis, op. 56
10. Randall Thompson: Alleluia
11. Claude Debussy: Invocation
12. Samuel Barber: Heaven, Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil) op. 13, No. 1

Album Description

This new disc takes the listener on a journey from the depths of despair to the pinnacles of joy, featuring rarely heard virtuoso works for male choir by Carl Orff, Jean Sibelius, Samuel Barber, Josquin Des Pres and Claude Debussy. The newly commissioned "Two Laments on Dylan Thomas" by Kenneth Jennings, Schubert's haunting "Grab und Mond" and Randall Thompson's "Alleluia" are saturated with Cantus' emotionally-charged singing. This disc is a 24-bit high resolution recording and comes in a sumptuous sleeve, with a beautifully presented 34 page booklet.

Customer Reviews:

Cantus has done it again!.......2003-12-07

Cantus has done it again with ...Against the Dying of the Light. This CD although much more secular and sacred, still demonstrates the power of music through singing. This album takes the listener back to some the very roots of choral music with compositions dating back to fifteenth century. Cantus brings out all despair and joy of the texts in ...Against the Dying of the Light. Although most of the pieces are sung in Latin, a story of greif and sarrow to consolation and joy is clearly told. All avid choral singers must have this CD. The "Two Laments on Dylan Thomas" are simply profound. You will not be dissapointed with this CD. This male choral group is second to none!

Wonderful.......2002-12-31

As a vocalist with a love for male a cappella, Cantus has struck my fancy in numerous ways. This album is a WONDERFUL example of their artistry. Their rendition of Randall Thompson's Alleluia is stunning, as are all of the other tracks. Truly worth the purchase.

Average customer rating: Or, "Best Sacred Vocal Music of the 16th Century" A blast from the past! Great Prayer Music Some great Renaissance choral music Excellent but overpraised

The Best of the Renaissance Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Allegri | Allegri, Gregorio | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gesualdo | Gesualdo, Carlo | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lassus | Lassus, Orlando di(Lasso) | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lobo | Lobo, Alonso | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tallis | Tallis, Thomas | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Taverner | Taverner, John | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Tallis Scholars | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Essential Tallis Scholars Josquin Desprez: Motets & Chansons Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Missa Aeterna Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection Renaissance: Music for Inner Peace ASIN: B00000J9GR Release Date: 1999-06-15

Tracks:

1. Miserere
2. Spem In Alium
3. Mass For Five Voices: Kyrie
4. Mass For Five Voices: Gloria
5. Mass For Five Voices: Credo
6. Mass For Five Voices: Sanctus - Benedictus
7. Mass For Five Voicesd: Agnus Dei
8. Missa 'Pange lingua': Kyrie
9. Missa 'Pange lingua': Gloria
10. Missa 'Pange lingua': Credo
11. Missa 'Pange lingua': Sanctus Benedictus
12. Missa 'Pange lingua': Agnus Dei I - II - III
13. Versa est in luctum

Tracks:

1. Tenebrac Responsories For Holy Saturday: Recessit pastor noster
2. Tenebrac Responsories For Holy Saturday: O vos omnes
3. Tenebrac Responsories For Holy Saturday: Ecce quomodo moritur justus
4. Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie
5. Missa Papae Marcelli: Gloria
6. Missa Papae Marcelli: Credo
7. Missa Papae Marcelli: Sanctus - Benedictus
8. Missa Papae Marcelli: Agnus Dei I - II - III
9. Osculetur me
10. Salve Regina
11. Ave Maria
12. Dum transisset Sabbatum
13. Magnificat

Amazon.com

As hateful and usually untrue as most "Best of" collections are, this one is the real thing. You actually do get two hours and 20 minutes of Renaissance music performed so exquisitely, so correctly, and so passionately that it's as if an entire era in music makes itself understood through these CDs. The Tallis Scholars are as good as it gets in this repertoire. In addition to getting Allegri's gorgeous Miserere, you'll find Thomas Tallis's 40-part (40!) Spem in alium, some wonderfully weird and dissonant Responsories by Gesualdo, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli (the "how-to" piece of the Renaissance popes, who demanded that the words be understood), and various other works. This stuff is like a finely woven tapestry and should be listened to bits at a time--it's amazingly rich and worth it. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

Or, "Best Sacred Vocal Music of the 16th Century".......2006-06-15

My only major complaint with the Tallis Scholars' impressive compilation "The Best of the Renaissance" is its name. The 2-CD set only includes sacred vocal polyphony from the High Renaissance (16th century). That means you get no chansons, no madrigals, no instrumental music of any sort. Perhaps even worse, composers before Josquin are ignored: there's no Dufay, no Binchois, no Ockeghem - nobody who worked primarily in the 15th century. These omissions suggest that the Tallis Scholars probably consider the pre-Josquin period as late Medieval, rather than early Renaissance.

Once you accept "The Best of the Renaissance" for what it is - "Best Sacred Vocal Music of the 16th Century" - you can better enjoy its remarkable assemblage of High Renaissance polyphony. The first disc in particular is quite astonishing. The Scholars lead off with their signature performance of Allegri's "Miserere" - actually a Baroque-era composition in Renaissance "learned style." The Scholars brilliantly convey the "call-and-response" effect of dual choirs through exquisitely crafted acoustics. Turn this one up, turn off the lights, close your eyes, and you're in the Sistine Chapel!

The Scholars follow "Miserere" with an equally impressive performance of a work by their namesake Thomas Tallis - the 40-voice motet "Spem in alium." If "Miserere" hasn't overwhelmed your senses, this one will.

Two virtuoso Mass cycles follow: William Byrd's "Mass for Five Voices" and Josquin's "Missa Pange lingua." The former conveys a sublime, otherworldly beauty, while the latter is a superior example of the style of pervasive imitation that Josquin and his contemporaries pioneered.

The selections on Disc One are so impressive that Disc Two disappoints by comparison. The second set is dominated by two composers I never quite warmed to: Carlo Gesualdo and Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina. Gesualdo was better known for his chromatic, genre-busting madrigals. His "Tenebrae Responses for Holy Thursday" are by contrast quite pleasing, but it's odd to hear sacred music written by a man who killed his wife and her lover. Palestrina's music achieves a sort of static beauty, but lacks forward motion. His "Missa Papae Marcelli" allegedly "saved" sacred polyphony, but arguably watered down the genre in its attempt to appease papal demands for simpler music.

The highlight of Disc 2 is Josquin's lovely "Ave Maria," a motet that provides yet another example of the Franco-Flemish composer's mastery of canonic forms.

"The Best of the Renaissance" expertly compiles the Tallis Scholars' best performances. Those looking for a comprehensive overview of the music of the Renaissance should be aware of its limitations, however.

A blast from the past!.......2006-02-24

This is a superb collection of Renaissance music. I especially loved Meserere on volume 1 of this two disk album.

Great Prayer Music.......2004-02-07

I perchased this cd and am truly truly glad I did. The sound makes me want to get somewhere and just cry out to God in joy, praise and reverence. The music is so peaceful pious (in a good way). Absolutely beautifuly executed. All the singers are with one accord-- and a great chord at that! Ye must needs purchase this cd!

Some great Renaissance choral music.......2004-02-01

When I recently played the first disk of this collection in the small bookstore/café where I work, a customer told me she had been trying to read but couldn't because she was so captivated by this CD's sublime music.

Although I am a sort of purist who hates when people say they listen to classical music just to relax, I find this CD set is perfect for inspiring reflection and relaxation. So, if you're looking for good music to relax to, this would be an excellent purchase.

The same goes if you're looking for some great Renaissance music. However, the term "Best of the Renaissance" may be a bit of a misnomer; the CD does not include a vast array of music from the said era. This collection is solely /a cappella/ music. Perhaps a more fitting title would be "The Best of Renaissance Choral Music." If you're looking for a broad sampling of music from this time period in one CD collection, this may not be for you. Nevertheless, if you want well performed choral music by some great composers, I recommend this CD to both Renaissance neophytes and aficionados without reservation.

Excellent but overpraised.......2003-12-30

The Best of the Renaissance is certainly worth buying if only for the amazing "Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis.Nevertheless, I do not share the boundless enthusiasm of other reviewers for this album.

To begin with, three Masses are featured on this album,two on the first cd. That is too much to my liking. And while the Mass Pange Lingua by Desprez is undoubtedly a wonderful piece, the other masses are not the best: the Mass for five voices by Byrd, while very beautiful, lacks the depth, emotion and intimacy of his Mass for three voices. The Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina is brilliant but nothing more than an academic exercise in virtuosity.

And I definitely do not appreciate Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday. This is simply very mediocre music that nobody would care for if it did not sound modern in its cerebral ugliness and thereby flatter our infatuation with ourselves.

I recommend "The Essential Tallis Scholars" either instead of or in addition to "The Best of the Renaissance", depending on your pocket and interest for Renaissance choral music. I would also recommend O Magnum Mysterium by the Robert Shaw festival singers. Although only a third of that album is devoted to Renaissance music, the interpretation is so beautiful and spiritual that it is really worth having in your Renaissance music collection.

Average customer rating:

Antonio Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Vivaldi | Vivaldi, Antonio | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: François Couperin: Chamber Music (Complete) Vivaldi Edition: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine Vivaldi Edition: L'Olimpiade Motezuma Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso ASIN: B00000DUE7 Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. Magnificat
2. Et Exsultavit
3. Et Misericordia Eius
4. Fecit Potentiam
5. Deposuit Potentes
6. Esurientes
7. Suscepit Isreal
8. Sicut Locutus Est
9. Gloria
10. Lauda, Jersalem
11. Kyrie Eleison
12. Christe Eleison
13. Kyrie Eleison
14. Credo In Unum Deum
15. Et Incarnatus Est
16. Crucifixus
17. Et Resurrexit
18. Dixit Dominus
19. Donec Ponam
20. Vigram Virtutis Tuae
21. Tecum Principium
22. Luravit Dominus
23. Dominus A Dextris Tuis
24. Ludicabit In Nationibus
25. De Torrente In Via
26. Gloria
27. Sicut Erit In Principio

Tracks:

1. Allegro: In Furore Iustissimae Irae
2. Recitativo: Miserationem Pater Piissime
3. Largo: Tunc Meus Fletus Evadet Laetus
4. Allegro: Alleluia
5. Allegro: Longe Mala, Umbrae, Terrores
6. Recitativo: Recedite, Nubes Et Fulgura
7. Largo: Descende, O Caeli Vox
8. Allegro: Alleluia
9. Allegro: Clarae Stellae, Scintillate
10. Recitativo: Caeli Repleti Iam Novo Splendore
11. Allegro: Nunc Iubilare
12. Allegro: Alleluia
13. Allegro: Canta In Prato, Ride In Monte
14. Recitativo: Saeva Fulgescit Nobis
15. Allegro: Avenae Rusticae Sinceri Fervida Amoris
16. Allegro: Alleluia
17. Accompagnato: Filiae Maestae Jerusalem
18. Largo: Sileant Zephyri
19. Accompagnato: Sed Tenebris Diffusis
20. Larghetto: Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera
21. Recitativo: Blando Colore Oculos Mundus Decepit
22. Allegro: Spirat Anguis
23. Allegro: Alleluia

Tracks:

1. Dixit Dominus
2. Donec Ponam Inimicos Tuos
3. Virgam Virturis Tuae
4. Tecum Principium
5. Iuravit Dominus
6. Dominus A Dextris Tuis
7. Indicabit In Nationibus
8. De Torrente In Via Bibet
9. Gloria Patri, Et Filio
10. Sicut Erat In Principio
11. Et In Saecula Saeculorum
12. Domine Ad Adiuvandum
13. Gloria Patri, Et Filio
14. Sicut Erat In Principio
15. Credidi Propter Qoud
16. Beatus Vir RV598
17. Beatus Vir
18. Potens In Terra
19. Antifona Beatus Vir
20. Gloria Et Divitiae
21. Antifona Beatus Vir
22. Exortum Est In Tendebris
23. Iucundus Homo
24. Antifona Beatus Vir
25. In Memoria Aeterna
26. Antifona Beatus Vir
27. Paratum Cor Eius
28. Peccator Videbit
29. Antifona Beatus Vir
30. Gloria Patri, Et Filio

Tracks:

1. Overture: Allegro
2. Overture: Largo
3. Coro Assyrian Soldiers Arma, Caedes, Vindicatae, Furores
4. Aria Holofernes Felix En Fausta Dies
5. Aria Holofernes Nil Arma, Nil Bella
6. Recitativo Vagaus Mi Dux, Domine Mi
7. Aria Vagus Matrona Inimica
8. Recitativo Holofernes Huc Accedat Matrona
9. Aria Juditha Qou Cum Patriae Me Ducit Amore
10. Recitativo Abra Ne Timeas Non
11. Aria Abra Vultus Tui Vago Splendori
12. Recitativo Abra Vide, Humilis Prostrata
13. Coro Vagus, Assyrian Solders
14. Recitativo Vagus Quem Vides Prope, Aspectu
15. Aria Vagus Quamvis Ferro Et Ense Gravis
16. Recitativo Holofernes Quid Cerno! Oculi Mei
17. Aria Juditha Quanto Magis Generosa
18. Recitativo Holofernes Magna, O Foemina, Petis
19. Aria Holofernes Magna, O Foemina, Petis
20. Recitativo Juditha, Tu Ludex Es, Tu Dominus, Tu Potens
21. Aria Juditha Agitata Infido Flatu
22. Recitativo Holofernes In Tentorio Supernae
23. Aria Con Coro Vagus, Servents O Servi, Volate
24. Recitantivo Vagus Tu Quoque Hebraica Ancilla
25. Aria Juditha Veni, Veni, Me Sequere Fida
26. Recitativo Abra Venio, Juditha, Venio: Animo Fave
27. Aria Abra Fulgeat Sol Frontis Decorae
28. Recitativo Abra In Urbe Interim Pia
29. Coro Bethulians Mundi Rector De Caelo Micanti

Tracks:

1. Recitativo Ozias Summi Regis In Mente
2. Aria Ozias O Sydera, O Stellae
3. Recitativo Ozia Iam Saevientis In Hostem
4. Recitativo Holofernes Nox In Umbra Dum Surgit
5. Aria Holofernes Nox Obscura Tenebrosa
6. Recitativo Holofernes Belligerae Meae Sorti
7. Aria Juditha Transit Aetas
8. Recitativo Holofernes Haec In Crastinum Serva: Ah, Nimis Vere
9. Aria Holofernes Noli, O Cara, Te Adorantis
10. Recitativo Juditha Tibi Dona Salutis
11. Coro Assyrian Soldiers Plena Nectare Non Mero
12. Recitativo Holofernes Tormenta Mentis Tuae Fugiant A Corde
13. Aria Juditha Vivat In Pace, Et Pax Regnet Sincera
14. Recitativo Juditha Sic In Pace Inter Hostes
15. Aria Vagaus Umbrae Carae, Aurae Adoratae
16. Aria Vagaus Quae Fortunata Es Tu Vaga Matrona
17. Aria Abra Non Ita Reducem
18. Recitativo Abra Iam Pergo, Postes Claudo
19. Accompagnato Juditha Summe Astrorum Creator
20. Aria Juditha In Somno Profundo
21. Accompagnato Juditha Impii, Indigni Trianni
22. Recitativo Juditha Abra, Abra, Accipe Munus
23. Aria Abra Si Fulgida Per Te Propitia Caeli Fax
24. Recitativo Vagaus Iam Non Procul Ab Axe
25. Aria Vagaus Armatae Face, Et Anguibus
26. Recitativo Ozias Quam Insolita Luce
27. Aria Ozias Gaude Felix
28. Accompagnato Ozias Ita Decreto Aeterno
29. Coro Judeans Salve, Invicta Juditha, Formosa

Tracks:

1. Aria In Turbato Mare Irato
2. Recitativo Splende Serena, O Lux Amata
3. Aria Respende, Bella
4. Alleluia
5. Recitativo Non In Pratis Aut In Hortis
6. Adagio Ibi Spinis Confixus
7. Aria Pro Me Caput Spinas Habet
8. Recitativo Quaesone facias, Domine
9. Largo Stabat Mater Dolorosa
10. Adagissimo Cuius Animam Gementem
11. Andante O Quam Tristis Et Afflicta
12. Largo Quis Est Homo, Qui Non Fleret
13. Adagissimo Quis Non Posset Contristari
14. Adante Pro Peccatis Suae Gentis
15. Largo Eia Mater, Fons Amoris
16. Lento Fac Ut Ardeat Cor Meum
17. Allegro Amen
18. Aria O Qui Caeli Terraque Serentias
19. Recitativo Fac Ut Sordescat Tellus
20. Aria Rosa Quae Moritur
21. Alleluia
22. Deus Tuorum Militum
23. Allegro Confitebor Tibi, Domine, In Toto Corde Meo
24. Allegro Memoriam Fecit Mirabilium Suorum
25. Andante Sanctum Et Terribile Nomen Eius
26. Allegro Intellectus Bonus Omnibus Facientibus Eum
27. Allegro Gloria Patri, et Filio
28. Allegro Et In Saecula Saeculorum

Tracks:

1. Allegro Beatus Vir
2. Allegro Gloria Et Divitiae
3. Beatus Vir
4. Andante Molto Exortum Est In tenebris
5. Beatus Vir
6. Allegro Lucundus Homo
7. Beatus Vir
8. Andante Molto In memoria Aeterna
9. Beatus Vir
10. Andante Paratum Cor Eius
11. Beatus Vir
12. Andante Dispersit, Dedit Pauperibus
13. Beatus Vir
14. Largo Peccator Videbit
15. Allegro Gloria Patri, Et Filio
16. Andante Salve Regina
17. Allegro Ad Te Clamamus
18. Allegro Eia Ergo
19. Andante Et Jesum
20. Laudate Dominum
21. In Exitu Israel
22. Allegro Nisi Dominus
23. Largo Vanum Est Vobis
24. Presto - Adagio Surgite
25. Andante Cum dederit
26. Allegro Sicut Sagittae
27. Andante Beatus Vir
28. Larghetto Gloria
29. Allegro Sicut Erat In Principio
30. Allegro Amen

Tracks:

1. Laetatus Sum
2. Laudate Pueri Dominum
3. Sit Nomen Domini
4. Usque Ad Occasum
5. Excelsus Super Omnes Gentes
6. Suscitans A terra Inopem
7. Ut Collocet Eum
8. Gloria Patri (I)
9. Gloria Patri (II)
10. Amen
11. Vestro Principi Divino
12. O felix Culpa
13. Quid Loqueris Ad Cor
14. Alleluia
15. Jubilate, O Amoeni Chori
16. In Tam ASolemni Pompa
17. Sonoro Modulamine: Gloria In Excelsis Deo
18. Et In Terra Pax Hominibus
19. Laudamus Te
20. Gratias Agimus Tibi
21. Domine Deus, Rex Caelestis
22. Domine Fili Unigenite
23. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
24. Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
25. Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris
26. Quoniam To Solus Santus
27. Cum Sancto Spiritu

Tracks:

1. Sum In Medio Tempestatum
2. Quid Ergo Faciam
3. Semper Maesta
4. Alleluia
5. Laudate Pueri, Dominum
6. Sit Nomen Domini
7. A solis Ortu Usque Ad Occasum
8. Excelsus Super Omnes Gentes
9. Quis Sicut Dominus
10. Suscitans A Terra Inopem
11. Ut Collocet Aum
12. Gloria Patri
13. Laudate Pueri: Sicut Erat In Principio
14. Amen
15. Cur Sagittas, Cur Tela
16. Hostibus Circumventa
17. In Te, Beate Pater
18. Sanctorum Meritis
19. Salve Regina
20. Ad Te Clamamus
21. Ad Te Suspirmus
22. Eia Ergo Advocata
23. Et Jesum Benedictum
24. O Clemens, O Pia

Tracks:

1. Laudate Pueri Dominum
2. A Solis Ortu
3. Excelsus Super Omnes
4. Sit Nomen Domini
5. Suscitans A Terra
6. Ut Collocet Eum
7. Sit Nomen Domini
8. Gloria Patri
9. Sicut Erat In Principio
10. Salve Regina
11. Ad te Clamamus
12. Ad Te Suspiramus
13. Eia ergo Advocata
14. Et Jesum Benedictum
15. O Clemens, O Pia
16. Accende Laeta
17. Quam Pulchri
18. Sternite, Angeli
19. Gaude Mater Ecclesia
20. Vos Aurae Per Montes
21. Cuncta Orbis
22. Tellus, Astra
23. Alleluia
24. Gloria Patri (From Laudate Pueri)

Tracks:

1. Gloria In Excelsis Deo
2. Et In Terra Pax
3. Laudamus Te
4. Gratias Agimus Tibi
5. Propter Magnam Gloriam Tuam
6. Domine Deus, Rex Caelestis
7. Domine Fili Unigenite
8. domine Deus, Agnus Dei
9. Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
10. Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris
11. Quoniam to Solus Sanctus
12. Cum Sancto Spiritu
13. Nisi Dominus Aedificaverit
14. Nisi Dominus Custodierit
15. Vanum Est Vobis
16. Cum Dederit
17. Sicut Sagittae
18. Beatus Vir
19. Gloria Patri
20. Sicut Erat In Prencipio
21. Ostro Picta
22. Sic Transiit
23. Linguis Favete
24. Gloria In Excelsis Deo
25. Et In Terra pax
26. Laudamus Te
27. Gratias Agimus Tibi
28. Domine Deus, Rex Caelestis
29. Domine Fili Unigenite
30. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
31. Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
32. Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris
33. Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus
34. Cum Sancto Spiritu

Average customer rating: the music survives Still Underrated For the masses Music of transcendant radiance!

Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor; Motets Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Walton: Choral Music Stanford: Anthems and Services Elgar: Sacred Choral Music Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, etc Lo the Full Final Sacrifice & Other Choral Works ASIN: B00005RG7R Release Date: 2002-01-15

Tracks:

1. Lord, Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge - Motet
2. Prayer To The Father Of Heaven - Motet
3. O Vos Omnes - Motet
4. Kyrie
5. Gloria In Excelsis
6. Credo
7. Sanctus - Osanna II
8. Benedictus - Osanna II
9. Agnus Dei
10. O Clap Your Hands - Motet
11. O Taste And See - Motet
12. O How Amiable - Anthem
13. Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney) - Hymn Setting

Customer Reviews:

the music survives.......2005-04-15

Despite a less than perfect performance by the Elora Festival Singers and some dismaying choices in audio engineering, Vaughan Williams' otherworldly Mass in G survives intact. I'm convinced almost nothing could destroy this titanic masterpiece. It's simply Vaughan Williams' very finest work among a number of luminous scores (Serenade to Music and the Fifth Symphony come to mind). Why the musicians seem so lackluster here is a mystery, maybe an off day. The singing of the anthems is more attuned, as is, weirdly, the engineering; both elevate as the recording progresses. Besides the Mass, it's a miracle to find the brief and elegant "O Taste and See" (sung wonderfully here) and "Come Down, O Love Divine" - one of the greatest English hymns and especially moving for Vaughan Williams' father having been vicar of Down Ampney when his son was born. Highest recommendation is for the King's College Choir, Cambridge under Wilcox recording of the Mass, but this is a fine effort overall, one whose musicians would be better served by less erratic sound engineering.

Still Underrated.......2005-03-23

Vaughn Williams is still an underrated composer, in my opinion--at least by the musical elite. But then again, so is choral music in general--except by the masses. These works are truly remarkable. Vaughn Williams's harmonic and literary mastery is evident throughout, and anyone who would like to know how to write for a chorus should know these works intimately.

For the masses.......2004-07-28

THIS is not the best recording of R.V.W.'s MASS in G. Although the Elora Singers find themselves doing really good things with the work on more than one occasion, they simply cannot compete with the likes of Matthew Best (Hyperion), New College of Oxford (Meridian) or Holst Singers (Unicorn, also available on Regis at budget price). My own favourite is on a not-so-recent record made by the Roger Wagner Chorale (Capitol LP); per chance, i kept a copy on tape. I am not sure if that's available on cd, perhaps as a bootleg [?]. There's also a persuasive recording from Richard Hickox (Chandos) that compares quite favorably with Dave Willcocks's King's College recording (EMI). Elora's account of the Mass isnt really 'bad'. If it is not mediocre, it is far from remarkable either. In conclusion : The most recommendable performance on cd (almost revelatory - with great quality of sound) is the one by Hilary Davan Wetton and his Holst Singers, which is and should remain available from Regis for just a few bucks over the price of the current Naxos.

Music of transcendant radiance!.......2003-01-22

I will start out by admitting that I bought this CD on a lark, not being at all familiar with the Elora Festival Singers, and being usually prejudiced in favor of such blue-blooded English choirs as King's College Cambridge in this kind of music.

To say I was pleasantly surprised is a big understatement. I am floored! This is choral singing of absolute sumptuousness, recorded in clear resonant sound. The main offering on the CD is the G minor Mass, RVW's 1921 evocation of the sonorities, polyphony and choral textures of the great English Tudor composers Tallis and Taverner. This rich, gorgeous and mystical work receives a most beautiful performance here, with the massed climaxes thrilling.

In addition there are five motets, including the elaborate and colorful "Lord, Thou hast been our refuge" and "O taste and see" which was performed during communion at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and also at the composer's own funeral. An anthem and a hymn-setting round out a very generous recital, which at the super budget Naxos price is more than a bargain, it is a gift!

If you have a love of beautiful choral music, English music, or just music that will lift your spirits and gladden your heart, this is it.

Average customer rating: Still great after 15 years of listening Simply one of the best Christmas albums on the market. The best. It doesn't get any better... Beautiful and fabulous. Our favorite!

A Renaissance Christmas / Cohen, Boston Camerata Joel Cohen , and Boston Camerata Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Dufay | Dufay, Guillaume | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Praetorius, Hieronymus | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Michael Praetorius | Praetorius, Michael | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Boston Camerata | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Holiday Music | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Classical Instrumental | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Medieval Christmas A Baroque Christmas A Mediterranean Christmas English Medieval Christmas A Renaissance Christmas ASIN: B000005IXX Release Date: 1991-09-13

Tracks:

1. Nowell: Dieus Vous Garde
2. Gaudete, Gaudete
3. Reading: Luke I, 18 - 22
4. Ecce ancilla Domini: Kyrie Eleison
5. E La Don Don
6. Two Fantasies on 'Une Jeune Fillette'
7. Une Jeune Fillette - Joseph est bien marie
8. Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
9. Joseph Is Well Married: Magnificat Quinti Toni
10. Esprits divins
11. Reading: Luke II, 17 - 19
12. Es is ein Ros enstprungen
13. Riu, riu, chiu
14. Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern
15. Reading: Luke III, 4 - 12
16. O vos omnes
17. Reading: Luke II, 20 - 21
18. Ungaresca
19. Nouvelles, nouvelles
20. Tau garco, la durundena
21. Tura lura lura, lo gau canta
22. Reading: Luke II, 3 - 8
23. O magnum mysterium
24. Singet un klinget, ihr kinderlein
25. Bransle de Poictou / La bona novella

Customer Reviews:

Still great after 15 years of listening.......2005-12-16

My mom bought this years ago and I still think it's wonderful music for Christmas. Definitely buy this album.

Simply one of the best Christmas albums on the market........2004-12-26

There is nothing to criticize on this CD, along with its wonderful companions, Medeival Christmas and Baroque Christmas. The singing is absolutely masterful; the instrumentation is faithful to what would've been used during the time period for additional authenticity. The narration in the various accents, taken directly from the story of the nativity in the Bible, really strings the different songs togheter. The various offerings from around the world connects the listener to two thousand years of Christmas tradition. We are of Catalan descent, so we were especially pleased to find "Tau Garçó, la Durundena," an ancient Catalan madrigal, but my personal favorite is the reverent, perfectly realized "O Magnum Mysterium" (Oh, Greatest of Mysteries), which has to be one of the most beautiful Christmas songs ever written. I have heard this song performed by many choirs and madrigal groups, and this CD's version is by far the most beautiful I've ever heard.

The music on this CD is so timeless and rich in quality and history that I actually listen to it year round, but it adds a special sparkle to holiday celebrations in a way that "Jingle Bell Rock" can never hope to achieve. :) This series is a real gift to the music world and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

The best........2004-10-04

I have had this Cd isnce it was released and year after year it delights, amazes and fills my family's heart with holiday joy. Like other reviewers have said, I agree that the quality of this CD (along with the companion CDs a Medival Christmas and a Baroque Christmas) is truly a revelation. But what I love most is simply listening to songs that aren't as well known as other carols- it connects you to the past instantly and also makes you feel the real reason for the season. Simply gorgeous and heavenly.

It doesn't get any better..........2003-12-22

Fantabulous! This is millenial Christmas music, the sort that will endure long after the stuff Americans listen to has faded away. If you like real music, have a copy of this. If you like the first art, BC can't be beat. What a job! And, outside of a couple of tiny oversights, the accompanying text is very well done.

Beautiful and fabulous. Our favorite!.......2003-01-12

These people are musical geniuses. This is our favorite Christmas album. It is so masterfully done, it is a joy and a rich experience to hear it over and over again. Hear it on a really good stereo for full effect. A true pleasure year after year.

Average customer rating: a voice teacher and early music fan What you would expect from Kings Lovely til the end. Vintage King's! King's College Choir Proves Its Mastery Again

Music For Holy Week Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gibbons, Orlando | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lassus | Lassus, Orlando di(Lasso) | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sheppard | Sheppard, John | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tallis | Tallis, Thomas | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Taverner | Taverner, John | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Miserere Passiontide at St. Paul's (A sequence of music for Lent, Passiontide and Easter) Images of Christ Great Choral Classics from King's Choir of King's College, Cambridge The Psalms of David from Kings Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Vol. 1 ASIN: B000002S5K Release Date: 1995-02-14

Tracks:

1. Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Incipit lamentatio
2. Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Aleph
3. Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Beth
4. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: De lamentatione
5. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: Ghimel
6. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: Daleth
7. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: Heth
8. O nata lux
9. Salvator mundi
10. If Ye Love Me
11. Cruicifixus
12. There Is A Green Hill Far Away
13. O vos omnes
14. Nolo mortem peccatoris
15. Tristis est anima mea
16. Crux fidelis
17. Videte omnes populi
18. Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
19. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
20. Dum transisset Sabbatum I
21. Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
22. This Joyful Eastertide
23. Haec dies
24. Let All The World In Every Corner Sing!

Customer Reviews:

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2007-02-15

Perfection in delivery and hauntingly beautiful tone quality mark this performance of some glorious holy week music. The Choir of King's College is made up of approximately 30 members, 16 are the young boy choristers and 14 are the undergraduates, who are referred to as Scholars. This particular disc shows 2 different recording times:The Tallis selections comprising the first half of the record were recorded in 1981; the second half (of varied composers )was recorded in 1977. So we cannot be sure that all the personnel were the same, not that it really matters, because it is all so very excellent. HOwever, I think that the Tallis half sounds like only the Scholars were singing, because there are no boy sopranos, as in the 2nd half. Be that as it may, I'll comment on just a few of the works that I particularly enjoyed.
ALL OF THE TALLIS: "The Lamentations of Jeremiah" are usually transmitted as a single piece in most contemporary manuscripts, but they are really two separate compositions in different modes. Tallis and his contemporary John Sheppard were the only 2 English composers of the time to compose hymn settings of any quality. It has been suggested that they had it in mind to compose a cycle of settings for Mary Tudor's chapel. "O Nata lux" may belong to this Marian set. It is almost entirely homophonic, and relies rhetorically upon a flexible declamatory style. " Salvator Mundi" is one of Tallis's best-known motets. The masterly treatment of imitative writing is combined with a fine sense of structure and balance, achieved through repetition, to give a sense of large-scale design, a feature characteristic of Tallis's best large-scale compositions. And the most beautiful anthem on the disc: Tallis's "If Ye Love Me".
So much wonderful music, exquisitely sung; a delcious Easter treat!
I would like to mention to any Michael Chance fans who read this, he is definitely singing on this recording. In the first half it is very obvious, but I do think he is also on the 2nd half. He would have been with King's at this time. Just some trivia for those who are interested.

What you would expect from Kings.......2005-03-23

This is a good recording--you wouldn't expect anything else from this choir. They just sing really well. Diction, tone, everything. Just great performance.

I disagree, as I usually do with Kings, with some of the repertoire selected. The Tallis Lamentations at the beginnning are sung well, but, quite honestly, I usually skip them because they're boring and I want to listen to a variety of pieces on the recording. The Lotti and Sheppard are also disastrous, not because of the performance, just because, in my opinion, they are disastrous as music anyway.

The hymns are probably the best music on this recording. They exemplify the true passion of the season. The other motets (besides the Lamentations) by Tallis are excellent. Leighton's "Let all the world", while I hate singing it, is an effective way to close the recording.

Overall, a good addition to your music library, but not a necessary one.

Lovely til the end........2004-03-13

The music on this cd brings home the beauty of the loftiest, most beautiful cathedrals of Europe, and is fitting of the subject matter therein: the death and resurection of Christ. The only thing I have to complain about is the last selection. TERRIBLE! Forgive me, but I tried to listen to it with open mind and open heart... but everytime, the word terrible came to mind. I would try to keep my twitching fingers away from the skip buttom; but again, every time, I found my arm going straight for it. The last selection sounds like a horrible, tragicly corny and rediculous church-circus joke. The rest of the cd is gorgious. I'm just not into that new-age sound-- or whatever it's supposed to be. Did I mention that the last selection on this cd is repulsive? If I didn't, well, let me say that it stinks!!! Buy the cd anyway, and do like I do and skip the last selection... unless of course you have found a way to tollerate it.

Vintage King's!.......2001-10-30

Superb ensemble singing from simply one of the finest choirs in the world. Philip Ledger's tenure at king's was relatively short but he produced a sublime sound from the choir. Then are many jewels on this disc from Lotti's 'Crucifixus' to the simply beautiful interpretation of Orlando Gibbon's 'Drop, drop slow tears'
Highly recommended.

King's College Choir Proves Its Mastery Again.......2001-03-20

I have been extremely hungry to hear English Tudor composers lately and came across this CD. Since it contained works by Tallis, Morley, Gibbons, Taverner and Sheppard, was sung by my favorite choir, and was very reasonably priced, I figured I had nothing to lose. Everything else on the disc was frosting on the cake.

I am especially delighted with the attention to program on this CD. From following Tallis's lavishly dense "Lamentations" with his thrillingly sparse "O Nata Lux" (full of tasty cross relations), to following Taverner's "Dum transisset Sabbatum I" with the well known Easter hymn, "Jesus Christ is risen today," careful attention is given to pacing and contrast over the generous 73 min 18 sec of the recording.

If I were to select two items worthy of special note, I'd point you to Lotti's "Crucifixus" and Kenneth Leighton's "Let all the world in every corner sing." The first is certainly the most exquisite use of dissonance I've ever heard in a Baroque choral work. Burney records in his 1770 diaries that the Italian choir brought him to tears when it nailed the entries on dissonant suspensions, and this recording shows you exactly what he was talking about. In the context of this program, Leighton's anthem is also a thrilling piece of work. Though decidedly modern, it uses modern organ and choral writing to the service of the text. Never do I pull back and think, "Is this weirdness for weirdness' sake?" -- as I do when listening to the works of many moderns, and Gesualdo, for that matter. It is a thrilling ride on the crest of a wave of sound that brings the entire program of King's College Choir's "Music for Holy Week" to an exhilarating conclusion. (I don't know any other work by him. Surely this isn't unique in his catalog.)

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