Browse: BBC Sacred Music (series)
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Sacred Music: A Christmas History & A Choral Christmas RecommendedPresented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Together [Beale and Christophers] form a fascinating insight into the way Christmas music has developed over the millennia from a fragment of papyrus preserving the earliest known piece of Christian... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Sacred Music: God’s Composer (Tomás Luis de Victoria) Presented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
With the help of a brisk factual narration by the actor Simon Russell Beale, quite a lot of ground is covered...The whole is punctuated with pleasing partial performances of ten works nicely... — More…
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the actor's enthusiasm for the project is tempered by a knowledge which enables him to gently 'translate' when a technicality threatens to pass over lay heads, and a palpable excitement and humility...The... — More…
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Sacred Music: An Easter Celebration Presented by Simon Russell Beale
Elin Manahan Thomas, Christopher Royall, Mark Dobell & Eamonn Dougan, Sally Dunkley, David Clegg & Eamonn Dougan
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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 — More…
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Monteverdi in Mantua the Genius of the Vespers
presented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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Monteverdi in Mantua (Special Edition) the Genius of the Vespers
presented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
2 CDs + DVD Video
Original price ($37.00) Reduced price $27.75
