Westminster Choir > Baroque Period

Noel: Music for the Season by Charpentier, Fauré, Gounod, Poulenc, Langlais et al.

1 CD / Westminister Choir College / 2011-11-15

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: In Nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum; Christmas Traditional: Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (Whence is that goodly fragrance?) (French); Bring a Torch, ...
Performers: Aronson, Justine; Batsios, Alexandra; Carruth, Amy; Cowan, Ken; Cowan, Lisa; Davis, Trey; Edmonds, David [Percussion]; Gillespie, Fiona; Heijink, Hank; Jackson, Chris [Bass vocals]; Larmore, Jennifer...
Conductors: Miller, Joe
Ensemble: ; Westminster Choir

Praised by American Record Guide as the "gold standard for American academic choirs," the Westminster Choir has performed and recorded with virtually every major orchestra...continue...
Recording information: The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine and St. G (04/2010)....continue...

Folk Songs / Joseph Flummerfelt, Westminster Choir

1 CD / Gothic Records / 2009-01-01

Works: Irish Traditional: Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), folk song; American Traditional: Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, folk song; Polly Wolly Doodle, song; Shenandoah, folk song; Scottish Tradit...
Performers: Arnold, Brent; Choir of Westminster Abbey; Phillips, Robert; Stephenson, Joseph [Baritone Vocal]; Westminster Cathedral Choir; Wilson, Blair
Conductors: Flummerfelt, Joseph
Ensemble: Westminster Choir

Personnel: Alexander Hume, Stephen Foster (vocals); Gregory Hostetler (tenor); Robert Phillips (baritone); Brenda Arnold (piano).

Recording information: Bristol Chapel, Westminster Choir Colleg...continue...

Westminster Choir at Spoleto Festival U.S.A. / Flummerfelt

1 CD / Gothic Records / 2009-01-01

Works: Johannes Brahms: Quartets (4) for mixed voices & piano, Op. 92; Der Gang zum Liebchen ("Es glänzt der Mond nieder"), quartet for mixed voices & piano, Op. 31/3; Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de J...
Performers: Briscoe, Rodney; Parker, Glenn; Parrella, Nancianne
Conductors: Flummerfelt, Joseph
Ensemble: Westminster Choir

Noël - A Music Feast

1 CD / Gothic Records / 2009-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Messiah, HWV 56; Johann Sebastian Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott, BWV 29; Traditional: The Twelve Days of Christmas; A Carol for All Seasons; Carol of the Bells; Il est né...
Performers: Butler, J. Melvin; Dahl, David; Lippincott, Joan; Nicodemus, Vernon; Strandberg, Linda
Conductors: Flummerfelt, Joseph; ; Sparks, Richard; Lippincott, Joan; Allured, Donald; Warland, Dale; Shafer, Robert; Hallock, Peter; Fullington, Doug; Ponten, Loren
Ensemble: ; Choral Arts; Choral Arts Northwest; Compline Choir; Dale Warland Singers; King's College Choral Scholars; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble; Princeton University Chapel Camerata;...

Bernstein Century - Handel: Messiah /Addison, Oberlin, et al

2 CD / Sony Classical / 1998-03-31

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias
Performers: Addison, Adele; Lloyd, David; Oberlin, Russell; Vacchiano, William; Warfield, William [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic; Westminster Choir

This version of Handel's 'Messiah' could quite possibly be feasible today only as a Bernstein reissue. The quest for authenticity has overtaken the performance and recording of early music, and even ...continue...

Handel: Messiah - Highlights / Bernstein, New York PO

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1997-10-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias
Performers: Addison, Adele; Bernstein, Leonard; Lloyd, David; New York Philharmonic; Oberlin, Russell; Warfield, William [Baritone Vocals]; Westminster Choir
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic; Westminster Choir

Personnel: David Lloyd (tenor); William Warfield (baritone).

Recording information: 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (1956).

Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the...continue...