Discover - Choral Music

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Album Summary

Performers

• Gary Cooper (Organ)
• Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord] (Organ)
• Wojciech Drabowicz (Baritone)
• Barbara Kubiak (Soprano)
• Timothy Bentch (Tenor)
• Piotr Nowacki (Bass)

Conductors

• Antal, Matyas
• Bedford, Steuart
• Christophers, Harry
• Drahos, Bela
• Halasz, Michael
• Helbich, Wolfgang
• Oberfrank, Geza
• Piquemal, Michel
• Rahbari, Alexander
• Rilling, Helmuth
• Spering, Andreas
• Talmi, Yoav
• Wit, Antoni

Ensembles

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• Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble
• I Febiarmonici (Baroque Orchestra)
• The Sixteen

Composers

• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
• Arvo Pärt (1935 - )
• John Taverner (circa 1490 - 1545)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594)
• Giacomo Carissimi (1605 - 1674)
• Orlando Gibbons (17th cent. Composer) (1583 - 1625)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
• Gustav Mahler (Composer) (1860 - 1911)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Gregorian Chant
• Thomas Tallis (Composer) (circa 1505 - 1585)
• Tomás Luis de Victoria (circa 1548 - 1611)
• Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
• Thomas Weelkes (1575 - 1623)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Josquin Desprez (Composer) (circa 1455 - 1521)
• William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 1704)
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)

Notes & Reviews:

Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favorites like John Rutter and Arvo Part, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz, and Mahler. Two and a half hours of music across two CDs.

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Chant, Gregorian : Crux fidelis, inter omnes, hymn (GR 182)

• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Choral

Desprez, Josquin : Ave Maria... virgo serena, motet for 4 parts

• Running Time: 5 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1497

Taverner, John : Missa "Gloria tibi Trinitas" :: Sanctus (extract)

• Running Time: 5 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Taverner, John : Christe Jesu, pastor bone

• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1526

Tallis, Thomas : In manus tuas

• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1575

Byrd, William : Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum

• Running Time: 5 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1580

Palestrina, Giovanni : Missa "Aeterna Christi munera" :: Agnus Dei

• Running Time: 4 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1590

Victoria, Tomás Luis de : O magnum mysterium

• Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1572

Monteverdi, Claudio : Vespro della Beata Vergine :: Laudate pueri Dominum

• Running Time: 6 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1610

Carissimi, Giacomo : Jonas :: Recitative. Et crediderunt Ninevitea..

• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio

Carissimi, Giacomo : Jonas :: Chorus of Ninevites. Peccavimus, Domin

• Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio

Schütz, Heinrich : Die mit Tränen säen, motet for 2 sopranos, alto, tenor, bass & continuo, SWV 378 (Op. 11/10)

• Conductor: Wolfgang Helbich
• Ensemble: I Febiarmonici (Baroque Orchestra)
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Schütz, Heinrich : Die Geburt unsers Herren Jesu Christi, for chorus, instruments & continuo, SWV 435 :: Die Weisen (The

• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Salve Regina à 3 choeurs, motet for for 3 choruses & continuo, H. 24

• Running Time: 6 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1677-1678

Gibbons, Orlando : O God, the King of Glory, anthem for voices

• Running Time: 4 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Weelkes, Thomas : Hosanna to the Son of David

• Performer: Gary Cooper (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Purcell, Henry : O God, Thou hast cast us out, anthem for 2 sopranos, 2 altos, tenor, bass, 6-part chorus & organ, Z.

• Performer: Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord] (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1681

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Cantata no 80, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," BWV 80 (BC A183) :: Chorus. Ein feste Burg ist unser

• Conductor: Mátyás Antal
• Running Time: 4 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1727-1731

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Cantata no 80, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," BWV 80 (BC A183) :: Chorale. Und wenn die Welt voll T

• Conductor: Mátyás Antal
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1727-1731

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Cantata no 80, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," BWV 80 (BC A183) :: Chorale. Das Wort sie sollen lass

• Conductor: Mátyás Antal
• Running Time: 1 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1727-1731

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 :: Evangelist. Da Jesus gebore

• Conductor: Géza Oberfrank
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1734

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 :: Chorus. Wo ist der neugebor

• Conductor: Géza Oberfrank
• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1734

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 :: Dein Glanz all Finsteris ve

• Conductor: Géza Oberfrank
• Running Time: 1 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1734

Handel, George Frideric : Te Deum in D major, HWV 283 "Dettingen" :: O Lord, in thee have I tru

• Conductor: Wolfgang Helbich
• Ensemble: Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1743

Handel, George Frideric : Giulio Cesare, HWV 17 :: Aria and Chorus

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Notes: Composition written: 1741.
• Running Time: 6 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1741

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Mass in C minor, K 427 (417a) "Great"

• Conductor: Michael Halász
• Notes: Composition written: 1783.
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1783

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Mass in D minor, H 22 no 11 "Nelsonmesse" :: Benedictus

• Conductor: Béla Drahos
• Notes: Composition written: 1798.
• Running Time: 5 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1798

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Mass in D minor, H 22 no 11 "Nelsonmesse" :: Benedictus

• Conductor: Béla Drahos
• Notes: Composition written: 1798.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1798

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Die Schöpfung (The Creation), oratorio, H. 21/2 :: Aria and Chorus

• Conductor: Andreas Spering
• Notes: Composition written: 1798.
• Running Time: 3 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1798

Mendelssohn, Felix : Psaume 42 :: Finale

• Conductor: Helmuth Rilling
• Running Time: 4 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 07/1837

Bruckner, Anton : Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, WAB 30

• Running Time: 5 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1879

Fauré, Gabriel : Requiem, Op. 48 :: In Paradisum

• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1887-1900

Brahms, Johannes : German Requiem, Op. 45 :: 4. Wie

• Conductor: Alexander Rahbari
• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1857-1868

Berlioz, Hector : Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17

• Conductor: Yoav Talmi
• Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 09/1839

Mahler, Gustav : Symphony no 8 in E flat major :: Part 1. Hymnus

• Performers: Wojciech Drabowicz (Baritone); Barbara Kubiak (Soprano); Timothy Bentch (Tenor); Piotr Nowacki (Bass)
• Conductor: Antoni Wit
• Running Time: 1 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1906-1907

Mahler, Gustav : Symphony no 8 in E flat major :: Part 1. Hymnus

• Performers: Wojciech Drabowicz (Baritone); Barbara Kubiak (Soprano); Timothy Bentch (Tenor); Piotr Nowacki (Bass)
• Conductor: Antoni Wit
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1906-1907

Stanford, Charles Villiers : Partsongs (8), Op. 119

• Running Time: 3 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral

Poulenc, Francis : Gloria in G major :: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

• Conductor: Michel Piquemal
• Running Time: 5 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1959-1960

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Mass in G minor :: Sanctus - Osanna I

• Running Time: 2 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1920-1921

Britten, Benjamin : Saint Nicholas, cantata for tenor, treble, choruses & orchestra, Op. 42 :: He Journeys to Palestine

• Conductor: Steuart Bedford
• Running Time: 7 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1948

Britten, Benjamin : Antiphon, Op. 56b

• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1956

Pärt, Arvo : Cantate Domino

• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1977-1996