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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Sixteen sing Handel & Steffani
The Sixteen adds to its stunning Handel collection with a brand new recording of Dixit Dominus set alongside a little know treasure - Agostino Steffani’s Stabat Mater. Full of virtuosity, vibrant colour and dynamic energy, Handel’s Dixit Dominus captures absolutely the Italian style of the period. Handel’s control of forces is masterly and the range of texture and style is breathtaking. Written during the composer’s time in Italy in the early eighteenth century it is amongst his first autographed works and also one of his finest. By comparison Agostino Steffani’s little known Stabat Mater was one of his last compositions. Written for the Academy of Vocal Music in London, this work is the most powerful expression of Steffani’s religious fervour and, outside opera, his largest, most varied and most heartfelt composition. “The Sixteen's sincere and nourishing performance does glorious justice to Steffani's profoundly moving and lovely setting. The Sixteen's Dixit Dominus… retains only three musicians from two decades ago, and it is a markedly stronger interpretation - dramatically astute, plenty of weight in the dramatic G minor opening, and unbridled (yet never unfocused) choral singing...” Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Italian CollectionA Sumptuous Anthology of Italian Choral Music
Allegri: | Miserere mei, Deus Christus resurgens ex mortuis Missa - Che fa oggi il mio sole | Anerio, F: | Ave Regina caelorum a 8 Regina caeli laetare a 8 Stabat Mater a 12 Magnificat secundi toni a 8 | Caldara: | Crucifixus a 16 voci Stabat Mater | Cavalli: | Salve Regina | Gabrieli, A: | De profundis clamavi ad te Domine (Psalm 130) | Gabrieli, G: | Hodie Christus natus est a 10 | Handel: | Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 Elin Manahan Thomas & Grace Davidson (soprano), Ruth Massey (alto), Jeremy Budd & Mark Dobell (tenor) & Eamonn Dougan & Rob Macdonald (bass) | Lasso: | Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera. Tui sunt coeli | Lotti: | Crucifixus | Marenzio: | Che fa oggi il mio sole | Monteverdi: | Domine, ne il furore | Palestrina: | Missa Papae Marcelli Stabat mater Ascendit Deus a 5 Ave Verum Angelus Domini descendit de caelo a 5 Assumpta est Maria a 6 | Scarlatti, D: | Iste Confessor Te Deum Messa breve 'La Stella' Stabat Mater a 10 voci | Steffani: | Stabat Mater Elin Manahan Thomas & Grace Davidson (soprano), Ruth Massey (alto), Jeremy Budd & Mark Dobell (tenor) & Eamonn Dougan & Rob Macdonald (bass) |
Featuring five of The Sixteen’s most celebrated recordings, The Italian Collection is a sumptuous anthology of music. From Allegri’s hauntingly beautiful Miserere to the virtuosity, vibrant colour and dynamic energy of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, this collection spans three centuries of glorious Italian choral music. Little-know treasures such as Anerio’s glorious 12-part setting of the Stabat Mater sit side by side with Palestrina’s Assumpta Est Maria and Lotti’s Crucifixus. 14 different composers are represented here and they worked for some of the most splendid musical establishments Italy had to offer including St Mark’s in Venice and the Sistine Chapel in Rome. A beautifully packaged set, which compliments perfectly The Sixteen's newest series of Palestrina CDs on CORO. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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