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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Brahms: Ein deutsches RequiemRecorded live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2008
SDG is happy to present last recording issued from the 2008 Brahms: Roots and Memories tour, in which John Eliot Gardiner and his ensembles explored the music of Johannes Brahms. Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem is presented along with pieces by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) which might have inspired its composition, giving the listener a new insight into the composer’s mind and music making. Deeply moving, profound, and powerful, the Requiem is central to our understanding of Brahms’ compositional personality and inner spiritual life. Behind its dramatic gestures and 19th century grandeur, it reveals Brahms’ obsessions with folk-songs and the music of the past. The libretto, assembled by Brahms himself based on the Lutheran Bible, makes it a definitive personal statement of his position in matters of religion. The booklet includes a note by composer Hugh Wood, explaining how the pieces relate to each other and giving a moving account of Brahms as a composer and as a man. “The warmth and clarity of John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir makes it a compelling exponent of the two Schütz works presented here...the Brahms begins beautifully with an even richer choral sound...[Denn alles Fleisch] can often get bogged down with overbearing morbidity. Not so here, thanks to Gardiner's agile, slow-waltz tempo and choral dexterity.” Graham Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 7th March 2012 “Schütz’s radiant Psalm 84, gloriously sung by the Monteverdi Choir, almost steals the show here...The big C major fugue [of the Requiem] is particularly rousing and the lovely Wie lieblich exquisite. Gardiner is right that Brahms demands flexibility of tempo, but overdoes it in the final number, missing the grand sweep of the opening melody with too fast a tempo.” Sunday Times, 26th February 2012 “The choral ensemble is superb; intonation perfect. Gardiner's instrumentalists' meticulous attention to authentic performance style adds a further dimension to a glorious reading of this beautiful piece. Highly recommended.” The Observer, 26th February 2012 “Gardiner's forces are marshalled with care, the Monteverdi Choir as uplifting as on his series of Bach Cantatas, while the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique lives up to its name in its emotional subtlety.” The Independent, 2nd March 2012 **** “The recorded sound has great immediacy, and the chorus produces a beautifully sustained and richly coloured vocal tone. Gardiner's flexibility in tempo, phrasing and dynamics (which Brahms favourted) pays dividends...Matthew Brook's dark-hued baritone is excellent for the role...Katharine Fuge's fresh, youthful voice adds a piercing pathos to 'Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit'” BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 **** “Brook might not be the high-cholesterol baritone often favoured in classic recordings...but a hint of reediness in his tone seems appropriate for one yearning to know the measure of his days...The star of the German Requiem, though, it always the choir. You know you're in safe hands with the Monteverdis and the pitch-perfect top A at 2'04''...absolutely confirms it...a minutely considered, dramatic and, in places, aptly disturbing performance.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 “This is a very impressive new recording....Gardiner conducts with warmth and the textures of the work...have a vibrancy and immediacy that is wholly to its advantage...he makes a compelling case for his tempo choices...this new version is uncommonly good, and will surely delight anyone wanting to hear the German Requiem on period instruments.” International Record Review, May 2012 “Gardiner's smooth, lean approach works well in a vividly alive performance” Classical Music, 7th April 2012 *** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | CoroO Jesu Mi Dulcissime
Coro & Camerata Antica (playing on original instruments) Coro is an award winning choir which won the Tallinn International Choir Festival in 2003, the first western choir to do so. 'O Jesu Mi Dulcissime' is Coro's third album and features a wonderful programme of works by the sixteenth century composers Schütz, Gabrieli, Monteverdi and Corradini. Coro is accompanied by Camerata Antica playing on original instruments. | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Die Vögel unter dem HimmelHeinrich Schütz - Sacred Choral Music
Scheidemann: | Toccata in G | Scheidt: | Postlude: Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter) Ein kindelein so lobelich Da Jesus an dem Kreuze Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, for organ, SSWV 496 | Schütz: | Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29 Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt, SWV 393 Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386 So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ SWV 379 Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten SWV 378 Psalm 130: Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir, SWV 25 Psalm 8: Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27 Cantate Domino canticum novum SWV 81 Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren' Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35 Psalm 150: Alleluja! Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligtum SWV 38 Edward Batting (organ) | Sweelinck: | Puer nobis nascitur C 12 |
The massed voices of the 140-strong National Youth Choir revel in the magnificently soaring lines of Schütz’s sacred music, complemented by John Kitchen’s contributions on the powerful Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. Revered by his contemporaries as the ‘Orpheus of our time’, Schütz would never have heard his music performed by forces such as these and on such a scale – surely he would have been a strong advocate of this astounding aural experience. Kitchen’s solo contributions contextualise the choral music with organ works by Samuel Scheidt and other contemporaries of Schütz. “On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured. The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces; but "So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ" shows that the choir is also adept at music requiring lighter and flexible singing.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 “choral singing of the very first rank” International Record Review “something very, very special … superb music, brilliantly interpreted and well recorded” The Organ | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Musicalische Vesper
Schütz: | Eile mich, Gott, zu erretten, SWV282 Psalm 110: Der Herr sprach zu meinem Herrn SWV 22 O Jesu, nomen dulce SWV 308 Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386 Concert: Anima mea liquefacta est SWV 263, 264 Psalm 133: Siehe, wie fein und lieblich SWV 412 Concert: Spes mea, Christus Deus SWV 69 Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29 Freuet euch des Herren, ihr Gerechten, SWV 367 Psalm 8: Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27 Responsorium: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich SWV 415 Hymnus: Nun will sich scheiden Nacht und Tag (after SWV 138 and 233) Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore, SWV 267 Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum, SWV468 |
Nele Gramß (soprano), Andreas Post (tenor), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass) Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Schütz: Psalmen Davids
Schein: | Suite XII: Pavan Suite XVII: Pavan | Schütz: | Psalm 137: An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten SWV 37 Psalm 6: Ach Herr, straf mich nicht, SWV 24 Erhöre mich, wenn ich rufe, SWV 289 Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35 Psalm 1: Wohl dem, der nicht wandelt, SWV28 Ich liege und schlafe, SWV 310 Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29 Psalm 103: Lobe den Herren, meine Seele, SWV 39 Das ist je gewißlich wahr, SWV 277 Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren' |
“Oxford Camerata rise excellently to the challenge.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Schutz: Chorwerke/Vocal Music
Schütz: | Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29 Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten SWV 378 Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich, SWV 372 Psalm 6: Ach Herr, straf mich nicht, SWV 24 Also hat Gott, SWV 380 Das ist je gewißlich wahr, SWV 388 Selig sind die Toten, SWV391 Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35 Psalm 1: Wohl dem, der nicht wandelt, SWV28 So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ SWV 379 Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren' Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener, SWV 433 |
Sächsisches Vocalensemble, Matthias Jung | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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