In Paradisum: Spiritual Classical Melodies by Faure, Mozart, Franck, Bruckner, Mahler et al. / various British choirs

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Album Summary

Performers

• Angharad Jones (Soprano)
• Lawrence Zazzo (Countertenor)
• Pamela Heuvelmans (Soprano)
• Helen Donath
• Bas Ramselaar (Bass)
• Valentina Farcas (Soprano)
• Emma Kirkby (Soprano)

Conductors

• Brown, Mark
• Brown, Timothy
• Camerata Academica Wurzbu
• Cleobury, Stephen
• Dixon, Alistair
• Inbal, Eliahu
• Leusink, Pieter Jan
• Marinov, Ivan
• Matt, Nicol
• Robinson, Christopher
• Savchuk, Yevhen

Ensembles

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• Brandenburg Consort
• Cambridge Ensemble
• Camerata Academica Wurzbu

Composers

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
• Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• César Franck (1822 - 1890)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Gustav Mahler (Composer) (1860 - 1911)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
• Giovanni Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
• Hans Leo Hassler (1562 - 1612)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Thomas Tallis (Composer) (circa 1505 - 1585)

Notes & Reviews:

This sublime compilation will take listeners on a journey through some of the most profound classical music ever written, demonstrating the wealth of inspiration that history's greatest composers have found in spirituality and religion. Renaissance masterpieces from Allegri, Tallis, and Pergolesi nestle nest to Romantic classics from Faure, Brahms, Mahler, and Tchaikovsky, performed by the world's best choirs, such as the King's College Choir Cambridge, The Clare College Choir Cambridge, St. John's College Choir Cambridge, and the European Chamber Choir. A classic reissued by popular demand.

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Works Details

Fauré, Gabriel : Requiem :: In Paradisum

• Conductor: Pieter Leusink
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1887-1900

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Ave verum corpus

• Conductor: Christopher Robinson
• Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1791

Franck, César : Panis angelicus

• Conductor: Christopher Robinson
• Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1872

Pergolesi, Giovanni : Stabat Mater

• Performers: Angharad Jones (Soprano); Lawrence Zazzo (Countertenor)
• Conductor: Timothy Brown
• Ensemble: Cambridge Ensemble
• Running Time: 7 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1736-1736

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Vesperae solennes de confessore :: Laudate Dominum

• Performer: Pamela Heuvelmans (Soprano)
• Conductor: Nicol Matt
• Running Time: 5 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1780

Bruckner, Anton : Locus iste, gradual for chorus in C major, WAB 23

• Conductor: Christopher Robinson
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1869

Mendelssohn, Felix : Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir (Psalm 91), motet for double chorus

• Conductor: Christopher Robinson
• Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 08/15/1844

Hassler, Hans Leo : Ave Maris Stella, hymn

• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Running Time: 5 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Fauré, Gabriel : Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

• Conductor: Christopher Robinson
• Running Time: 5 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1865

Allegri, Gregorio : Miserere

• Conductor: Timothy Brown
• Running Time: 12 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: 16th Century

Mahler, Gustav : Symphony no 4 :: Wir geniessen den himmlischen Leben

• Performer: Helen Donath
• Conductor: Eliahu Inbal
• Running Time: 9 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1899-1900

Palestrina, Giovanni : Missa Papae Marcelli :: Sanctus

• Conductor: Mark Brown
• Running Time: 4 min. sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1567

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Requiem :: aeternam

• Conductor: Nicol Matt
• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1791

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Cantata, BWV 82 :: Aria. Ich habe genug

• Performer: Bas Ramselaar (Bass)
• Conductor: Pieter Leusink
• Running Time: 7 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 02/02/1727

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Mass in C minor, KV 427 :: Aria. Et incarnatus est

• Performer: Valentina Farcas (Soprano)
• Conductor: Camerata Academica Wurzbu
• Ensemble: Camerata Academica Wurzbu
• Notes: Composition written: 1783.
• Running Time: 9 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1783

Verdi, Giuseppe : Requiem :: Agnus Dei

• Conductor: Ivan Marinov
• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1874

Brahms, Johannes : Ave Maria, for female chorus in F major, Op. 12

• Conductor: Nicol Matt
• Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1858

Pergolesi, Giovanni : Stabat Mater

• Performers: Angharad Jones (Soprano); Lawrence Zazzo (Countertenor)
• Conductor: Timothy Brown
• Ensemble: Cambridge Ensemble
• Running Time: 7 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1736-1736

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Requiem :: Lux Aeterna

• Conductor: Nicol Matt
• Running Time: 5 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1791

Handel, George Frideric : Messiah :: Hallelujah

• Conductor: Pieter Leusink
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1741

Brahms, Johannes : Geistliches Lied, Op. 30

• Conductor: Nicol Matt
• Running Time: 5 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1856

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Matthäus Passion :: Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben

• Performer: Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort
• Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1736

Mendelssohn, Felix : Psaume 42

• Conductor: Nicol Matt
• Running Time: 5 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 07/1837

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom :: Hymn of the Cherubin

• Conductor: Yevhen Savchuk
• Running Time: 7 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1878

Tallis, Thomas : Spem in alium

• Conductor: Alistair Dixon
• Running Time: 10 min. sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1567