Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

(c.1525-94)

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The Queen of Heaven

The Queen of Heaven


Allegri:

Miserere mei, Deus

Lotti:

Crucifixus

MacMillan:

Miserere

The Strathclyde Motets: Data est mihi

The Strathclyde Motets: Dominus dabit benignitatem

The Strathclyde Motets: Factus est repente

The Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn

The Strathclyde Motets: Videns Dominus

The Strathclyde Motets: Lux aeterna

The Strathclyde Motets: In splendoribus sanctorum

The Strathclyde Motets: Benedicimus Deum caeli

O bone Jesu

Tenebrae Responsories

Palestrina:

Stabat mater

Missa Papae Marcelli

Stabat mater

Regina coeli

Ad coenam Agni providi

Missa Regina caeli

Confitebor tibi Domine

Terra tremuit

Improperium exspectavit cor meum

Vineam meam non custodivi

Si ignoras te, o pulchra

Pulchrae sunt genae tuae


Now, in its 13th year, The Choral Pilgrimage stands as testament to Harry Christophers’ ongoing mission to bring a wide variety of sacred music back to the kind of buildings for which it was written. Thanks to the enthusiasm and support from audiences, the project continues to thrive and some 20,000 people are expected to attend concerts on this year’s tour.

The 2013 tour began on 2nd March in Guildford Cathedral, and will take in a total of 34 concerts around the UK and Ireland before a concluding concert in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh on the 26 October.

Allegri’s Miserere is the single most famous piece of sacred music ever written. Although it is instantly recognisable with its haunting tones, mythology surrounds it, and this year’s Choral Pilgrimage allows Harry Christophers to explore its evolution and enduring appeal.

James MacMillan dedicated his powerful and emotional setting of the Miserere to Harry Christophers and The Sixteen who premiered the work in 2010 and recorded it shortly afterwards. Alongside Allegri, MacMillan is one of the few composers to ever set the full Miserere to music.

His exquisite version is one of the highlights of this year’s programme.

Arguably the greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is often billed as ‘The Prince of Music’ and by some ‘The Saviour of Church Music’. Palestrina was a towering figure in Renaissance polyphony and shines out amongst the many great composers of the time for his immaculate craftsmanship and sheer output of works. The Sixteen have recorded three volumes of Palestrina’s works on their own label CORO, the latest of which includes repertoire from the 2013 tour and is included in this special collection.

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The Queen of Heaven

The Queen of Heaven


 

Regina caeli

plainsong

Allegri:

Miserere mei, Deus

Its Evolution

MacMillan:

The Strathclyde Motets: Dominus dabit benignitatem

The Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn

The Strathclyde Motets: Videns Dominus

Miserere

Palestrina:

Missa Regina caeli: Agnus Dei I-III

Improperium exspectavit cor meum

Stabat mater

Vineam meam non custodivi

Regina coeli

Pulchrae sunt genae tuae

Missa Regina caeli: Kyrie


Now, in its 13th year, The Choral Pilgrimage stands as testament to Harry Christophers’ ongoing mission to bring a wide variety of sacred music back to the kind of buildings for which it was written.

Allegri’s Miserere is the single most famous piece of sacred music ever written. Although it is instantly recognisable with its haunting tones, mythology surrounds it. This year’s Choral Pilgrimage allows Harry Christophers to explore its evolution and enduring appeal. This new version of the Allegri Miserere entitled ‘Its Evolution’ as performed on the Pilgrimage has been recorded and appears on this disc.

James MacMillan dedicated his powerful and emotional setting of the Miserere to Harry Christohers and The Sixteen who premiered the work in 2010 and recorded it shortly afterwards. Alongside Allegri, MacMillan is one of the few composer to ever set the full Miserere to music. His exquisite version is one of the highlights of this year’s programme.

Arguably the greatest composer of liturgical music of all time Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is often billed as ‘The Prince of Music’ and by some ‘The Saviour of Church Music’. The 2013 tour includes some of his wonderful music for Easter including the Stabat Mater a8 and excerpts from the Missa Regina caeli.

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Palestrina: Missa De beata virgine & Missa Ave Maria

Palestrina: Missa De beata virgine & Missa Ave Maria


Palestrina:

Missa De beata virgine

Missa Ave Maria


In this album we find Westminster Cathedral Choir at the peak of their powers, performing masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. These two magnificent and contrasting settings perfectly demonstrate why Palestrina has been acknowledged as the master of this repertoire from his lifetime to the present day.

“For sheer sumptuousness of sound quality and clarity of text, the performance … ranks alongside the finest” Classic CD

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Archiv Produktion: The Early Music Studio

Archiv Produktion: The Early Music Studio


Agricola, A:

Crions Noel source - Harmonice Musices Odhecaton

Alamire:

Bassedance T'Andernacken a 5

Allegri:

Miserere mei, Deus

The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston

Anerio, F:

Venite ad me omnes

The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston

anon.:

Alle Psallite

Amor potest

S'on me regarde

In mari miserie

O mitissima

La mesnie fauveline

Clap, clap, par un matin

Febus mundo oriens

Inter densas deserti

Tandernaken - Laet ons mit hartzen

De tous biens playne source

Wij sheyt edel vrouwe source

Der Winter will hin weichen

Bach, C P E:

Symphony No. 1 in D major, Wq 183/1

Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter

Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Wq 183/2

Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter

Symphony No. 3 in F major, Wq 183/3

Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter

Symphony No. 4 in G major, Wq 183/4

Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter

Bach, J S:

Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat major, BWV525

Chorale Preludes II, BWV645-650 'Schübler Chorales'

Chorale Partita BWV768 'Sei gegrusset, Jesu gütig'

Trio Sonata No. 6 in G major, BWV530

Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565

Fugue in E flat major, BWV552/2 'St Anne'

Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hermann Töttcher (oboe)

Karl Ristenpart Chamber Orchestra, Karl Ristenpart

Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hermann Töttcher (oboe)

Karl Ristenpart Chamber Orchestra, Karl Ristenpart

Cantata BWV4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (Easter Cantata)

Maria Jung, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Chor der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik, Frankfurt am Main, Bach Festival Orchestra 1950, Fritz Lehmann

St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Irmgard Seefried, Hertha Töpper, Ernst Haefliger, Max Proebstl, Kieth Engen, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Munich Bach Orchestra, Munich Bach Chorus, Munich Chorknaben, Karl Richter

Cantata BWV8 'Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben?'

Karl Richter

Cantata BWV45 'Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist'

Karl Richter

Cantata BWV78 'Jesu der du meine Seele'

Karl Richter

Concerto for Flute, Violin & Harpsichord in A minor, BWV1044

Aurèle Nicolet, Gerhart Hetzel

Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter

Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major, BWV1055

arranged/reconstructed for oboe d'amore & strings by C. Hogwood

Manfred Clement (oboe d'amore)

Münchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter

Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Mass in B minor, BWV232

Nancy Argenta, Jane Fairfield, Jean Knibbs, Collin Patrick, Ashley Stafford, Andrew Murgatroyd, Lloyd Morgan, Stephen Varcoe

English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Barbarino:

Audi, Dulcis Amica Mea

Ardens est cor meum

Beethoven:

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

Bertali:

Lamento della Regina d'Inghilterra

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Franz-Josef Selig (bass-baritone)

Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel

Biber:

Die Pauernkirchfahrt

Concentus Musicus Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Sonata à 3 for 2 violins, baroque trombone

Concentus Musicus Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Fidicinium sacro-profanum: Sonata VIII

Concentus Musicus Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Battalia à 10

Concentus Musicus Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Brassart:

Fortis cum quevis actio source

Caccini, G:

Perfidissimo Volto

Nigel Rogers, Jordi Savall, Colin Tilney

Belle rose porporine

Nigel Rogers, Pere Ros, Jordi Savall, Anthony Bailes, Colin Tilney

Udite amanti

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney, Anthony Bailes, Pere Ros, Jordi Savall

Amarilli mia bella

Nigel Rogers, Anthony Bailes

Calestani:

Damigella tutta bella

Cavalli:

Restino imbalsamate (from La Calisto)

Clemens:

O Crux benedicta source - Liber primus cantonium sacrarum

Ave mundi spes Maria source - Sacrarum cantionum (Liber primus)

Corelli:

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 1 in D major

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 2 in B flat major

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 3 in C major

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 7 in D minor

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 8 in E minor

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 9 in A major

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 11 in E major

Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 12 in D minor (La folia)

Cruce:

Aucun ont trouvé

Despres:

La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem

Huc Me Sydereo / Plangent Eum

Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria

Ut phoebi radiis

De profundis clamavi

Christe fili Dei

O virgo virginum

VULTUM TUUM

La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem

O bone et dulcissime Jesu

Huc Me Sydereo / Plangent Eum

Virgo prudentissima

Gabrieli, G:

Toccata à 4 (C237)

In ecclesiis a 14

Sonata No.19 à 15

Suscipe, clementissime Deus à 12

Canzona No. 14

Buccinate in neomenia tuba a 19

Intonation del nono tono

Domine Deus Meus

Sonata XXI con tre violini

Timor et tremor a 6

Intonazione del duodecimo tono

Jubilate Deo 8vv with continuo

Sonata No. 18 à 14

Misericordia tua, Domine à 12

Sonata No. 20 à 22

Magnificat à 33

Gagliano:

Valli Profonde

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney, Jordi Savall, Pere Ros

Gesualdo:

Sicut ovis ad occisionem

Plange quasi virgo

Ghiselin:

Je loe amours source

Gibbons, O:

O Lord, I Lift My Heart To Thee

Thus angels sang

Fantasia a 3 No 1

Almighty and everlasting God

Oh my love, how comely now

In Nomine

O Lord increase my faith

This is the Record of John

What is our life?

Fantasia a 3 No 2 from Koninklycke Fantasien

The Silver Swan

Fantasia a 4 for the viols

The Cries of London

The Deller Consort

Giovannelli:

Jubilate Deo

The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston

Gluck:

Alessandro. (Les amours d'Alexandre et de Roxane)

Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel

Halle, A:

De ma dame vient

J'os bien a m'amie parler

Handel:

Israel in Egypt, HWV54

Heather Harper, Patricia Clarke, Paul Esswood, Alexander Young

English Chamber Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Charles Mackerras

Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 10 in D minor, HWV328

Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 11 in A major, HWV329

Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 12 in B minor, HWV330

La Resurrezione, HWV47

Annick Massis (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Laurent Naouri (baritone)

Marc Minkowski, Marc Minkowski

Messiah

Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh

Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99

La Lucrezia "O Numi eterni", Cantata HWV 145

Tra le fiamme, HWV170

Alcina

Joyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)

Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

Furie terribili (from Rinaldo)

Haydn:

Symphony No. 39 in G minor

Symphony No. 41 in C major

Symphony No. 48 in C major 'Maria Theresia'

Symphony No. 65 in A major

India:

Cruda Amarilli

Nigel Rogers, Anthony Bailes

Intenerite voi, lagrime mie

Nigel Rogers, Jordi Savall

Lalande:

Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy: Quatrième Suitte

Orchestre de Chambre Paul Kuentz, Paul Kuentz

Lapicida:

Tandernaken

Legrenzi:

Il ballo del Gran Duca

Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel

Leoninus:

Viderunt Omnes

Machaut:

Qui es promesses

Lasse! comment oublieray

David Hoquetus/double hoquet

Monteverdi:

Se vittorie sì belle

Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, Christopher Keyte, Colin Tilney, Jürgen Jürgens

The Monteverdi Choir

Non voglio amare per non penare (Book 9)

Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, Christopher Keyte, Colin Tilney, Jürgen Jürgens

The Monteverdi Choir

Vaga su spina ascosa

Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, Christopher Keyte, Colin Tilney, Jürgen Jürgens

The Monteverdi Choir

O mio bene

Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, Christopher Keyte, Colin Tilney, Jürgen Jürgens

The Monteverdi Choir

Zefiro torna

Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, Christopher Keyte, Colin Tilney, Jürgen Jürgens

The Monteverdi Choir

Mentre vaga Angioletta

Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, Christopher Keyte, Colin Tilney, Jürgen Jürgens

The Monteverdi Choir

Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)

Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennicchi, Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Sandro Naglia, Alastair Miles, Bryn Terfel

English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Con che soavità (Book 7)

Lamento d'Arianna 'Lasciatemi morire'

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Lamento della Ninfa (Book 8)

Morley:

Good love then fly thou to her

Farewell, disdainful

Hark, jolly shepherds

Now is the Gentle Season

My lovely wanton jewel

Sweet nymph, come to thy lover

Stay heart, run not so fast

O Grief, even on the bud

Mouret:

Sinfonies de Fanfares

Orchestre de Chambre Paul Kuentz, Paul Kuentz

Suite seconde de symphonies

Adolf Scherbaum (trumpet)

Orchestre de Chambre Paul Kuentz, Paul Kuentz

Mozart:

Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K456

Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K459

Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Muffat, Georg:

Florilegium secundum: Fasciculus VIII - Indissolubilis Amicitia in E major

Concentus Musicus Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Concerto No. 1 in D minor - Bona nova

Concentus Musicus Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Myslivecek:

Overture No. 2 in A for 2 horns, 2 oboes and strings

Six Symphonies 1772

Concertino in E flat major No. 1

Nanino, G B:

Haec dies

The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston

Obrecht:

Salve Regina

Pro Cantione Antiqua, London, London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Bruno Turner

Beata es Maria

Pro Cantione Antiqua, London, Bruno Turner

Salve Crux

Pro Cantione Antiqua, London, Bruno Turner

Jay pris amours

Laet u ghenoughen, liever Johan Source

Ockeghem:

Requiem

Palestrina:

Missa Papae Marcelli

The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston

Tu es Petrus

The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston

Peri, J:

O durezza di ferro (O hardness of steel and diamond)

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney, Jordi Savall

Tra le donne

Nigel Rogers, Anthony Bailes, Colin Tilney, Pere Ros, Jordi Savall

Bellissima Regina

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney, Anthony Bailes, Pere Ros, Jordi Savall

Perotinus:

Viderunt omnes

Piccinini:

Chiaccona

Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Praetorius, M:

Six French Dances from Terpsichore

Pullois:

Les larmes

Purcell:

Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328

Paul Esswood, Roland Tatnell, Simon Woolf, Michael Rippon, John Shirley-Quirk

Tiffin Choir, The Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383

Anne Sofie von Otter, Markus Möllenbeck, Christian Rieger

O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Rameau:

Une Symphonie Imaginaire

Rasi:

Indarno Febo

Rebel, J-F:

Les Élémens

Rue, P:

Ave regina caelorum source

Pourquoi non source

Saracini:

I Io moro

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney

Deh, come invan chiedete

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney

Quest' amore, quest' arsura

Nigel Rogers, Anthony Bailes, Pere Ros

Giovinetta Vezzosetta

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney, Anthony Bailes

Da Te Parto

Nigel Rogers, Colin Tilney, Jordi Savall

Scarlatti, D:

Keyboard Sonata K347 in G minor

Keyboard Sonata K348 in G major

Keyboard Sonata K213 in D minor

Keyboard Sonata K214 in D major

Keyboard Sonata K318 in F sharp major

Keyboard Sonata K319 in F sharp major

Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major

Keyboard Sonata K381 in E major

Keyboard Sonata K356 in C major

Keyboard Sonata K357 in C major

Keyboard Sonata K526 in C minor

Keyboard Sonata K527 in C major

Keyboard Sonata K478 in D major

Keyboard Sonata K479 in D major

Keyboard Sonata K524 in F major

Keyboard Sonata K525 in F major

Keyboard Sonata K454 in G major

Keyboard Sonata K455 in G major

Keyboard Sonata K248 in B flat major

Keyboard Sonata K249 in B flat major

Keyboard Sonata K436 in D major

Ralph Kirkpatrick

Schein:

Suite No. 4

Collegium Terpsichore, Fritz Neumeyer

Suite No. 5

Collegium Terpsichore, Fritz Neumeyer

Suite No. 3

Collegium Terpsichore, Fritz Neumeyer

Susato:

Passe and Medio / Den iersten gaillarde

La Morisque Source: Het derde musyck boexken

Entre' du Fol

Mon désir - basse danse

Pavan: La Dona

Allemaigne

Quatres bransles source - Het derde musyck boexken

Bergerette source - Het derde musyck boexken

Telemann:

Overture (Suite) TWV 55:C3 in C major for wind, strings & b.c. 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth' ('Wassermusik')

Concerto in B flat for 2 recorders, 2 oboes, violin, 2 violas, cello, double-bass and Continuo

Concerto in F major

Concerto in A minor

Concerto in B flat major for 3 oboes, 3 violins & continuo

Concerto TWV 52:d1 in D minor for 2 chalumeaux, strings & b.c.

Sonata for Oboe, Harpsichord and Continuo in E minor (Septet)

Turco:

Occhi Belli

Victoria:

Surrexit pastor bonus

O lux et decus Hispaniae

O Regem Coeli

Magi viderunt stallam

Conditor alme siderum

Vadam et circuibo civitatem

Duo Seraphim clamabant

Veni Creator Spiritus for 4 voices

O magnum mysterium, motet

Ascendens Christus in altum

Dum complerentur for 5 voices

Hostis Herodes impie

Quem vidistis, pastores?

Ardens est cor meum

Ensemble Plus Ultra, Michael Noone

Vitry:

Impudenter circumivi

Cum statua

Vivaldi:

The Four Seasons

Cantata RV684 'Cessate, omai cessate' for alto & strings

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)

Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel

Concerto in G major for two Violins RV 516

Concerto in D major for Two Violins, RV 511

Concerto in D minor for two Violins RV 514

Concerto in B flat major for two Violins RV 524

Concerto in C minor for two Violins RV 509

Concerto in A minor for Two Violins, RV 523

Violin Concerto RV 232 in D major

Widmann, E:

Daentze und Galliarden

Zelenka:

Sinfonia à 8 concertanti in A minor ZWV 189

Hipocondrie à 7 concertanti in A major, ZWV 187

Overture à 7 concertanti in F major

Sonata No. 4 in G minor


A celebration of the pioneering early music label Archiv, offering 55CDs ranged across the label’s entire 66-year history. Beautiful presentation, original jacket sleeves and documentation to the customary high standards of the label.

In more ways than one, 2013 will be an Archiv Produktion year. The beloved Silver Label – the “Early Music Studio of Deutsche Grammophon”, as it was called for many years – is being revived in a big way, both in frontline and catalogue. In early April 2013 an event in Berlin is being held to mark this relaunch. New albums from choral group Tenebrae, Anna Prohaska and Giuliano Carmignola are being released in the first quarter to coincide with this occasion.

Simple, striking and strong: in gleaming silver with the large blue Archiv Logo embossed on all sides. A large onsert on the top and back of the box details contents and is illustrated with a packshot showing contents.

Original Jackets: starting with the austere yellow covers of the 1940s and 1950s gradually giving way to the great historical illustrations and images that featured up to the 1990s, when artists at last began to make an appearance (there were no artist photos in the 1950s!)

The 180-page full-colour book has articles by journalist Nicholas Anderson, and “memoirs” by former directors of Archiv, Prof. Andreas Holschneider and Dr. Peter Czornyj, and Executive Producer, Marita Prohmann.

The book features many rare photos from Archiv recording sessions, as well as other memorabilia.

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Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni & Eastertide motets

Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni & Eastertide motets


Palestrina:

Missa Ad coenam Agni

Surrexit pastor bonus a 8

Regina coeli

Haec dies à 6

Alleluia. Tulerunt Dominum

Terra tremuit

Angelus Domini descendit de caelo a 5

Deus, Deus meus

Lauda anima mea

Benedicite gentes

Ad coenam Agni providi


The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice

The Brabant Ensemble, better known for uncovering works by forgotten composers such as Dominique de Phinot, turns to a giant of the Renaissance—perhaps the most celebrated name of the period. Yet within Palestrina’s huge output there are many hidden gems, lacking both recordings and modern performing editions, and it is from among these that the ensemble’s director Stephen Rice has chosen the repertoire for this album. A Mass—Missa Ad coenam Agni, from Palestrina’s first book of Mass-settings—is included, plus antiphons, motets and five Eastertide Offertories. Each work is, as Stephen Rice states in his typically informative booklet notes, ‘a finely crafted addition to the liturgy’.

The Brabant Ensemble brings a matchless blend of musicianship, scholarship and sensitive singing to this glorious music.

“This disc might be renamed 100 Ways to Sing Alleluia, such is the celebratory nature of this collection of Eastertide offertories, antiphons and motets...The spirited Surrexit pastor bonus, its accompanying antiphon Regina caeli and the gradual Haec dies are sung with a full-voiced, beefy intensity that lifts the music away from mere polite polyphony and gives it a really exciting energy” The Observer, 31st March 2013

“[in the Regina coeli] the singers enliven the texture with their nuanced renderings of the marvellous contrapuntal connections, and the recording make the most of the double-choir effects in the final section.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ****

“The Brabants seem very much at home here” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013

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Palestrina: Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet Book IV for 5-6 voices

Palestrina: Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet Book IV for 5-6 voices


“For all that the singing style with which Renaissance choral polyphony is performed these days has changed, Pro Cantione Antiqua does a great job. Their articulation could hardly be cleaner: every syllable is audible. Yet at no time does their care and studied enunciation substitute for expression and gentle love of the texts and their religious import.” MusicWeb International, 17th April 2013

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Palestrina Volume 3

Palestrina Volume 3


Palestrina:

Stabat mater

Regina coeli

Ad coenam Agni providi

Missa Regina caeli

Confitebor tibi Domine

Terra tremuit

Improperium exspectavit cor meum

Vineam meam non custodivi

Si ignoras te, o pulchra

Pulchrae sunt genae tuae


A towering figure in Renaissance polyphony, Palestrina is arguably one of the greatest composers of Liturgical music of all time. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen continue their exploration of his work with a disc of music for the Easter period.

Many of the works on this new recording celebrate the joyful part of Easter - the Resurrection - and the central mass on this disc is the wonderfully inspired Missa Regina caeli. The Mass is based on the well-known, immediately recognisable, plainchant Antiphon Regina caeli and the recording also includes the 8-voice motet of the same name.

As with volumes 1 and 2 this disc also includes three of Palestrina’s settings of the Song of Songs alongside three offertories for the Easter period and the hymn Ad caenam agni providi.

This disc would not be complete, however, without the exquisite 8-voice Stabat Mater - possibly Palestrina’s most famous piece in current times and a work that emphasises the other side of the Easter story - the agony and pain of the Crucifixion.

A number of the works from Palestrina Volume 3 will feature in The Choral Pilgrimage 2013 alongside Miserere settings by Allegri and MacMillan (both of which are available on the CORO label).

“[the Missa Regina Caeli is] given a polished, carefully paced and highly sensitive reading here. The singers invest as much emotional intensity in one of the two double-choir polyphonic settings of the antiphon as they do in the rest of the set.” Sunday Times, 17th February 2013

“The subject – the grieving mother at the foot of the cross – is all the more anguished in this unadorned double-choir setting, sung with full, pure tone and welcome momentum...The Sixteen have their own divine qualities, generously on display here.” The Observer, 17th March 2013

“The opening sequence, Stabat Mater, shows just what is admirable about this choir and the direction it receives...every ounce of implied drama, of unsettled feeling, and of deep reflection is brought to bear on a performance of superbly crafted form, nuanced dynamics, overlapping phrasing and effortless tuning...as The Sixteen get into this series they are warming to their task.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ****

“in this style of interpreting Palestrina, The Sixteen are sensitive and remarkably assured….The Sixteen's Palestrina cycle may just be a classic in the making.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013

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Renaissance Radio

Renaissance Radio

Sacred Music from the Renaissance Era for Celestial and Secular Radio


Allegri:

Miserere mei, Deus

Brumel, A:

Agnus Dei (Missa Et ecce terrae motus)

Byrd:

Mass for four voices - Agnus Dei

O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth

Nunc Dimittis (The Great Service)

Clemens:

Ego flos campi

Cornysh the elder:

Ave Maria Mater Dei

Despres:

Ave Maria ... Virgo serena

Agnus Dei (Messe de l'Homme Armé ‘sexti toni')

Gesualdo:

Precibus et meritis

Maria, Mater gratiae

Guerrero:

Ave Virgo sanctissima

Lasso:

Ave Regina caelorum

Salve Regina

Mouton, J:

Salva nos, Domine

Palestrina:

Agnus Dei (Missa brevis)

Sicut lilium inter spinas (from Canticum canticorum, Motets Book IV)

Praetorius, H:

Joseph lieber, Joseph mein

Rore:

Descendi in hortum meum

Sheppard, J:

In manus tuas I, II & III

Tallis:

Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Incipit

Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Aleph

Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Bet

Mihi autem nimis

O sacrum convivium

O nata lux de lumine 5vv

Miserere nostri, motet for 7 voices, P. 207

If ye love me

Hear the voice and prayer

A new commandment

Why Fum'th in Fight?

E'en like the hunted hind

God Grant we grace (Tallis Canon)

Veni creator: Come Holy Ghost

Taverner:

Kyrie 'Le Roy'

Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas: Benedictus

Tomkins:

When David Heard

Victoria:

Ave Maria

O vos omnes

Requiem: Kyrie

Requiem: Graduale

Versa est in luctum

White, Robert:

Christe qui lux es et dies III


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Miserere

Miserere

A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation


anon.:

Attende, Domine

Peter Stevens (organ)

Audi, benigne conditor

Peter Stevens (organ)

Evigila super nos

Evigila super nos

Mass IX 'Cum iubilo'

Credo IV

Peter Stevens (organ)

Salva nos, Domine

Salva nos, Domine

Salva nos, Domine

Antiphon Repeat

Bevan, D:

Magnificat

Byrd:

Emendemus in melius

Croce:

In spiritu humilitatis

Guerrero:

Ave Virgo sanctissima

Malcolm:

Miserere mei, Deus

Scapulis suis

Veritas mea

Nunc dimittis tertii toni

Mawby:

Iustus ut palma

William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)

Palestrina:

Missa Emendemus in melius

Parsons, R:

Ave Maria

Tallis:

Te lucis ante terminum


This release from the admired Westminster Cathedral Choir demonstrates the splendours of the liturgy in the at-once solemn and joyful period of Lent. Masterworks from the Renaissance—familiar from Westminster Cathedral Choir’s previous award-winning recordings—alternate with works by former organists of the Cathedral (all themselves masters of liturgical composition) and are linked by the plainchant which is at the spiritual heart of the music. Hearing the music like this in context—and recorded in the unique acoustic of the Cathedral—perfectly replicates the live experience for the listener.

“This is beautifully devised programme, sung with ineffable perceptiveness by the Westminster choristers and recorded with utterly natural atmosphere by the Hyperion team: 79 minutes' worth of timeless reflection, which, far from giving up, anyone should possibly crave for Lent.” International Record Review, February 2013

“In purist terms accompanied by organ harmonisation is an anachronism...Does it work? Well, yes, because the choir is on excellent form and the recorded sound seems perfectly to capture a sense of place, of atmosphere. That's indefinable and therefore worth hearing. Furthermore, everything is of a piece: the performance of Renaissance piece might almost be described as lush...And yet the recital's unity of purpose is most convincing, even impressive” Gramophone Magazine, March 2013

“This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing and cohesion in the Agnus Dei of Palestrina's Missa Emendemus in Melius is accomplished and moving” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 ***

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A Brandenburg Christmas

A Brandenburg Christmas


Aranés:

Chacona: A la vida bona

Davis, K K:

The Little Drummer Boy

Gruber, F:

Stille Nacht

Hildegard:

O Ecclesia

Howells:

Here is the Little Door

Joel:

Lullabye 'Goodnight my Angel'

Merula:

Su la cetra amorosa, aria di ciaccona

Mozart:

Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum

Palestrina:

Hodie Christus natus est

Purcell:

Rejoice in the Lord alway ('The Bell Anthem'), Z49

Ronzani:

Alma Redemptoris Mater

trad.:

Angelus ad virginem

arr. Carter

O come, o come, Emmanuel

Coventry Carol

Noël nouvelet

O come, o come, Emmanuel


Brandenburg Choir & Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer

The Australian Brandeburg Orchestra get together each year to celebrate Christmas and Artistic Director Paul Dyer has committed some of the music created to disc.

It contains the usual eclectic mix of repertoire, performed by these first class musicians in their unique way.

Their previous release was universally critically acclaimed and we expect this one to generate similar reviews.

“this seasonal offering reveals the quirky programming policy of artistic director Paul Dyer...I’m not sure anyone else has ever dared programme Angelus ad virginem and Billy Joel together, but the man who hymned his Uptown Girl shares stage space with Herbert Howells and Henry Purcell as well, and doesn’t seem unduly to suffer.” MusicWeb International, November 2012

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