Sacred Music: An Easter Celebration

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Sacred Music: An Easter Celebration

Label:

Coro

Catalogue No:

COR16079

Series:

BBC Sacred Music

Discs:

1

Release date:

29th March 2010

Barcode:

0828021607998

Medium:

DVD Video

Format:

NTSC

Region:

all
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Sacred Music: An Easter Celebration

Presented by Simon Russell Beale

Allegri:

Miserere mei, Deus

Sally Dunkley, Elin Manahan Thomas, David Clegg & Eamonn Dougan

Anerio, F:

Stabat Mater a 12

Bach, J S:

Motet BWV229 'Komm, Jesu, komm!'

Byrd:

Quomodo cantabimus

Ye sacred muses - an elegy for Thomas Tallis

Mass for four voices - Agnus Dei

Elin Manahan Thomas, Christopher Royall, Mark Dobell & Eamonn Dougan

Haec dies

Gregorian Chant:

Vexilla Regis

Monte, P:

Super flumina Babylonis

Palestrina:

Gloria (from Missa Papae Marcelli)

Assumpta est Maria a 6

Perotinus:

Viderunt omnes

Tallis:

Salvator mundi, salva nos

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

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In the finale to series one of the Sacred Music programme, Simon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by founder Harry Christophers. The music takes us on a journey of over a thousand years, from haunting plainchant through to the celebrated music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Highlights include Palestrina's motet Assumpta Est Maria, and Allegri's Miserere.

Plus Bonus Features include:

· Sacred Music Series One Preview

· Exclusive Interview with Harry Christophers

· Song Selection with Introductions from Harry Christophers (Audio Option)

· Related Recordings by The Sixteen

· Artist Biographies and Images

· Downloadable Screensavers

Region: NTSC Region 0

Plays in all territories

BBC Music Magazine

June 2010

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“Allegri's Miserere puts in an appearance, Elin Manahan Thomas surfing the high Cs with effortless sublimity, but the last word (a glorious one at that) falls to a Marian motet by Palestrina”

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