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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 7: Orgelbüchlein, BWV 599-644 (with choir)
Benjamin Alard
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released October 14, 2022 | harmonia mundi
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With its forty-five chorale preludes, the Orgelbüchlein bears witness to a mastery of the art of improvisation on the organ, as the congregation heard it at the time before singing the hymn in its turn. It was a tempting experiment to revive this primary function: by collaborating with the combined forces of the Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque and the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, Benjamin Alard gives the "little organ book" its full significance and expressive power. © harmonia mundi
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53°14'52.7"N 10°24'47.8"E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Lüneburg & Altenbruch)
Jörg Halubek
Classical - Released December 3, 2021 | Berlin Classics
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You'll need your latest smartphone if you want to understand anything about the latest albums by the wacky German organist Jörg Halubek. Under the GPS coordinates of the places and instruments frequented by Bach, we see Halubek, on the covers of his Bach complete works undertaken since 2019 for the Berlin Classics label, armed with a large black umbrella under a radiant sky, walking around with a cheerful face. Of course, the name Halubek is already a bit of an in-joke itself, if one considers the journey to Lübeck (!) that Bach made in 1705, on foot, to meet Dietrich Buxtehude, the greatest German composer of his time.More seriously, Jörg Halubek is a complete musician. An organist and harpsichordist, he also studied period performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, before forming his own ensemble, il Gusto Barocco, with whom he has made several recordings.This new album is devoted to early works composed in Lüneburg and Arnstadt. It contains the Orgelbüchlein ("Little Organ Book"), the famous collection of forty-six organ chorales composed by Bach between 1708 and 1717 and published in the mid-19th century, a must for all organist apprentices worldwide. The other side of this album is devoted to the Partitas BWV 770 and 766 to 768, in which Bach's unique personality is already apparent. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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J.S. Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 4
Masaaki Suzuki
Classical - Released July 21, 2023 | BIS
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The great Masaaki Suzuki's traversal of Bach's keyboard music is well underway, and several attractions have become clear. In general, though, the interpretations are clearly characteristic of the musician who recorded all of Bach's cantatas; he is a bit less concerned with a pearly surface and a bit more with direct expression. In works for organ, he has shown a willingness to delve into period instruments, and the one here, the 1737 Christoph Treutmann organ of Stiftskirche St. Georg, Grauhof in Germany's Lower Saxony region, is a real find. It is an instrument that Bach might have played; at the very least, it is similar to the ones he knew, and it brings the organ music on this release alive. The instrument's occasional clanking noises do not detract from, and arguably even enhance, its remarkable variety of colors; the delicate stops here (try Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar) are glorious. Suzuki is willing to take a bit of time to bring out these colors; there is nothing too radical, but there are subtle adjustments to the tempo throughout that define the profile of each little ornamented chorale, and all the performances are vivid. Hear the swirly effects of In dulci jubilo, BWV 608. The pieces, except for an entr'acte prelude and fugue, are associated with the holiday season. This album was released in the summer of 2023; it may not have been intended as a Christmas album, but it would make a wonderful purchase at that time.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation
Lionel Meunier
Classical - Released February 10, 2017 | Ricercar
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A two-CD set devoted to the Lutheran liturgical repertory from Martin Luther himself to Heinrich Schütz. The first disc comprises compositions specific to the Lutheran liturgy: Deutsche Messe, Deutsches Magnificat, Deutsche Passion (the first German polyphonic Passion, by Joachim von Burck) and even a reconstruction of a Deutsches Requiem drawn from polyphonic works that set the same texts as those Brahms was later to use for his Deutsches Requiem. The second disc presents a selection of motets arranged according to the liturgical calendar, from Advent to Trinity. These polyphonic pieces were written by a wide range of composers including Martin Luther, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Michael raetorius, Joachim von Burck, Christoph Bernhardt, Heinrich Schütz, Thomas Selle, Melchior Franck, Caspar Othmayr, Michael Altenburg, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein and Johann Walter. The organist Bart Jacobs completes the programme with a few organ pieces by seventeenth-century composers.
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In Dulci jubilo ... Deutsche Barock Weihnacht (Oeuvres du XVIIe siècle de Weckmann, Schelle, Praetorius, Schütz, etc.)
Bernard Foccroulle
Classical - Released January 1, 1996 | Ricercar
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Bach: Epiphany Mass
Gabrieli Consort
Classical - Released January 1, 1998 | Archiv Produktion
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Bach: Puer natus in Bethlehem – Carissimi: Salve, salve, puellule – Dandrieu: Noël de Saintonge
Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical - Released May 14, 2012 | VDE-GALLO
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Thomanerchor Leipzig: Weihnachtsliederabend
Thomanerchor Leipzig
Classical - Released November 17, 2023 | Rondeau Production
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Christmas Vespers: Music of Michael Praetorius
Michel Praetorius
Classical - Released October 23, 2007 | Avie Records
The historical-performance ensemble Apollo's Fire, based in Cleveland, Ohio, far from the centers of this tradition, has been releasing interesting and convincing performances of a variety of music since the late 1990s. Few of their recordings, however, have matched the ambitions of this album of music by Michael Praetorius, which might well serve as an introduction to this composer's output. The issue with many Praetorius recordings has been the diverse nature of his music, which included chorale-based pieces, limpid and perennially popular carols, large blocks of polychoral sound in the style German composers borrowed from Italy at the end of the Renaissance, and instrumental dances. Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves all these materials together using music taken from three Praetorius collections, making a pair of holiday-season services: a German-language Lutheran Advent service and a set of Christmas Vespers. These are mostly in Latin, but a few sections, including the familiar Lo, how rose e'er blooming, are sung in English. Sorrell does not try to replicate a specific musical occasion, but instead creates a framework in which the diverse forces here -- adult choir, children's choir, large instrumental ensemble -- talk to each other in a way in which Praetorius would have recognized. The end result is an unusually satisfying recording of early Baroque Christmas music, with a stirring finale built from another familiar carol melody, In dulci jubilo. Highly recommended.
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O Jesulein... A German Baroque Christmas Oratorio
Clematis
Classical - Released October 14, 2022 | Ricercar
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This innovative programme presents an imaginary Christmas oratorio made up of works by German composers of the 17th century. Many of these works are unpublished and come from the splendid Düben Collection in the library of the University of Uppsala; they are arranged here in a sequence that introduces the scenes and the principal characters of the Nativity: Mary, Joseph, the Archangel Gabriel, the angels, the shepherds, the Magi and Simeon. These works belong to the genre of the "historia sacra" and depict the dialogue of the Annunciation between the archangel Gabriel and Mary, the arrival of the Magi - guided by angels - at the manger, and the scene where Mary and Joseph look for Jesus in the Temple. These narrative scenes stand in contrast to the large ensembles that represent the angelic host, the shepherds, and the adoring multitudes before the manger. The instruments also play an important role in this celebration with their contrasting timbres. This recording features works by Andreas Hammerschmidt, Wolfgang Carl Briegel, Christian Flor, Christoph Bernhard, Heinrich Schütz, Franz Tunder, David Pohle, and Thomas Selle. © Ricercar
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The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury
Classical - Released March 22, 2019 | Kings College Cambridge
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Supported by strong sales, England's collegiate choirs have steadily released new music, often expanding their repertory into new realms. So what happens to the "favo(u)rites" albums that choirs release periodically, as starters for new listeners or bonuses for devoted ones? A look into the trends is provided by this lovely release from what might be called the king of all the collegiate choirs, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. This group is among the most traditional of its type, created by no less than King Henry VI, with boy choristers who attend the King's College School, and often go on to prestigious careers after their voices break. The choir's self-proclaimed favorites have evolved in a somewhat international direction, with a program somewhat resembling those offered by American-style glee clubs. The opening segment consists not of English polyphony but of landmarks of continental a cappella music, including the familiar eight-part Crucifixus of Antonio Lotti and a particularly lovely reading of Mozart's Ave verum corpus. There is English music from the 20th century, most of it in the middle of the program. Things conclude with broadly popular contemporary sounds. These include arrangements of Amazing Grace and Shenandoah that may sound a little stilted to American ears but testify to the universal appeal of these melodies. The continuing growth of American composer Morton Lauridsen's fame is also represented here; Lauridsen is not a household name, but he may well become one. The choristers work together unusually well, even by the high standards of this choir, and the performance of his O magnum mysterium is one of the smoothest you will hear. Recommended, and certainly a good introduction to the Choir of King's College, even if the music involved is not particularly English.
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The Nativity
Voce Chamber Choir
Classical - Released September 15, 2023 | Signum Records
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Patrick Hawes is one of the many English composers contending to fill the John Rutter space in the market, the demand for tuneful, easy-to-listen-to choral music that aspires to uphold an imagined English tradition. This holiday release centered on the Nativity scene has several distinctive features going for it. One is that his program has a distinctive shape. In Hawes' words, "The album begins with the question What Child is This? (Hawes' own setting of the text, not the familiar Christmas hymn) and each of the carols and motets which follow offer their own particular response." There is a six-part musical exegesis on the Nativity scene, plus various freestanding pieces; this is not an oratorio, but it is a novel way of linking a set of independent pieces. The Nativity scene and many of the other pieces have texts by Hawes himself, which is unusual; the rest are drawn from English poetry. His own texts are simple and vivid. Musically, Hawes pushes his language in a crossover direction; it is broadly tonal, and in a piece like "The Shepherds" from the Nativity set, he inclines toward rhythmic, sing-song material. The pieces are a cappella, organ accompanied, or, in the final, The Colours of Christmas, accompanied by a piano. The singing by the Voce chamber chorus, American rather than English, is limpid and attractive, although the sound from a church in Connecticut is overly noisy. Everything suggests that this will be a popular holiday release in 2023 and beyond.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Sacred Treasures of Christmas: Music for Christmas, Epiphany & Candlemas
London Oratory Schola Cantorum
Classical - Released October 30, 2020 | Hyperion
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Orgelbüchlein (Petit livre de chorals liturgiques), BWV 599-644
André Isoir
Classical - Released January 1, 2013 | La Dolce Volta
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Es ist ein Ros
Hans-Christoph Rademann
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released November 5, 2021 | Accentus Music
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Advent is a time of heightened feelings: anticipation and tense expectation alternate with moments of reflection and proverbial contemplation. The Holy Night, finally, is both: a bright and radiant time, but also a darkness that invites to contemplation. Advent is also a time of contrasts: the king of the world is a child, the savior of the world lies in a manger among animals. It is these tensions, contrasts and manifold states of mind that are at the heart of the new album of the Dresdner Kammerchor with music for Advent and Christmas by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621). 2021 is the year of the 450th anniversary of the birth and 400th anniversary of the death of Michael Praetorius. He was a composer, organist, court kapellmeister and scholar in the transitional period from Renaissance to Baroque. He is one of the most important musicians in Europe around 1600. The program provides a selection of the most beautiful Advent music to accompany not only the Advent and Christmas season with his masterpieces, but also to let the listener discover the music of Michael Praetorius. © Accentus Music
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Buxtehude: The Complete Organ Works
Bine Bryndorf
Classical - Released January 1, 2016 | Dacapo
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Oeuvres pour orgue
Kei Koito
Classical - Released December 1, 2007 | Claves Records
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Terpsichore, Muse of the Dance (Œuvres de Praetorius, Brade, Holborne, Moritz von Hessen, Bennet, anonymes)
Skip Sempé
Chamber Music - Released October 23, 2012 | INTERARTS
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Praetorius: Advent and Christmas Music
Bremer Barock Consort
Classical - Released October 22, 2007 | CPO
Short vocal pieces and arrangements for recorders by the German composer Michael Praetorius formed part of the repertoire of the amateur musicians who first revived Renaissance and Baroque music, but the historical-instrument movement has not treated him as generously as some of his contemporaries. The Bremer Barock Consort, a group of (remarkably) student musicians from Bremen led by North German veteran Manfred Cordes helps remedy the situation with a lovely group of pieces with texts appropriate to the holiday season. They date from the first two decades of the 17th century. Several of these works, including the well-known In dulci jubilo, mix Latin and German in the texts, seemingly a direct demonstration of the process by which Lutheranism differentiated itself from Catholic worship. The source material of the music, too, is a mixture: Latin chants, chorales, or chorale-like tunes in German, or short hymn melodies like In dulci jubilo. All are elaborated with delightful variety into pieces mostly between five and ten minutes long, with choral ensembles (the choir has one voice per part), vocal solos, and instrumental passages from an ensemble of recorders and violas da gamba. Sometimes the ensemble is reduced to a pair of recorders playing one of the entrancing duets familiar to those who've played Praetorius' music at home, spinning a seemingly endless fantasy out of a very basic set of tonal materials. The overall effect is of an early 17th century version of Bach's profounder forms of chorale variation, all clothed in the sunny mood characteristic of Praetorius. A really nice disc of early 17th century music, clearly recorded. The booklet notes, in German, English, and French, discuss Praetorius' career in detail but don't say much about the music you hear.© TiVo
Bach Without Words
Anna Christiane Neumann
Classical - Released November 6, 2015 | Genuin
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