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525 Years Anniversary Concert

Wiener Sängerknaben

Classical - Released November 24, 2023 | Universal Music GmbH

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Remember Me, My Dear

Jan Garbarek

Classical - Released October 18, 2019 | ECM New Series

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25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance of Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, comes Remember me, my dear, recorded during the final tour the group made in October 2014. The program is emblematic of the range of repertoire the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal quartet explored together – from Pérotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume le Rouge, Antoine Brumel to Komitas, Arvo Pärt and more. It could be said that the Hilliard/Garbarek combination, in concert, transcended its source materials, with early music, contemporary composition and improvisation interfused in the responsive acoustics of sacred spaces. And this final album reminds us that the unique Garbarek/Hilliard combination, and its unprecedented exploration of sound, was consistently breathtaking. © ECM Records
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Fons luminis: Codex Las Huelgas (Sacred Vocal Music from the 13th Century)

Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released June 1, 2018 | Evidence (LTR)

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Echoes of an Old Hall

Gothic Voices

Classical - Released June 11, 2021 | Linn Records

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The Old Hall Manuscript, compiled over some years ending around the 1420s, is the main source of late medieval and early Renaissance English polyphony. It takes its name from St. Edmunds College, Old Hall Green, in Hertfordshire, where it was once owned. It is hardly a household name, and the commercial success of this Linn Records release may seem surprising, but it's worth checking out for several reasons. One is that the idea of recording a survey of a medieval manuscript tells listeners a lot about the music. One doesn't have to speculate about what hearers of the time considered important, for here, the selections made by the scribes themselves, who may have included the composers of some of the music. The contents capture the fascinating interchange between English and the Continent (mostly Burgundy and the Low Countries), with influences going in both directions. The evolution of the interval of a third into a consonance, forming the center of what became modern major and minor chords, was the work of the English, whereas the expressive marriage of music and text began on the Continent and was mastered in the lyrical works of Dunstable heard here. The small ensemble Gothic Voices selects quite a variety of works, from chant to mass movements, motets, French-language chansons, and a remarkable piece called Arae post libamina that is about the act of singing itself. It is the singing on this recording that is the main draw, even for listeners less interested in the musical history. The expressive singing of the group, which avoids simple divisions into lyrical and intellectual, brings these small pieces alive at a distance of 600 years. Other attractions: much of the music will be new to most listeners, and the sound, from Chichester's Boxgrove Priory, is idiomatic and clear. A delightful and fully accessible early Renaissance release.© TiVo
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Filia Sion

Vox Clamantis

Classical - Released May 25, 2012 | ECM

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Listeners looking for an album of chant that is free of hype and condescending claims to be mood-mellowing should be thrilled with these exquisite performances by the Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis, led by Jaan-Eik Tulve. Most of the chants are from the Gregorian tradition, but there are also works by three named composers, Hildegard von Bingen, Pérotin, and Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz, as well as the Codex Las Huelgas, the Montpellier Manuscript, and from the Jewish community in Cochin, India. The tone of the album is serenely reverent, but at the same time the singing is vibrant and full of life. The performances might not pass muster with listeners who demand strict adherence to historically informed performance practice; there are some tracks that are hugely effective, but that employ practices that are speculative at best. Pérotin's Beata viscera, for instance, is a monophonic conductus, an unaccompanied melody, but it was written at a time when a spirit of experimentalism was in the air in the world of liturgical music in 13th century Paris. In this performance, the singers add a vocal drone; what sounds like whistling, but which may be a version of throat singing; and a second line sung in canon with the first. Hildegard's O ignis spiritus receives a similar treatment, but without the second vocal line. Authentic or not, the result is inexpressibly ethereal and haunting. Other performances are more traditional; the Gregorian offertory Ave Maria and several other tracks alternate solo voices with a unison chorus. The performances offer a wider range of timbral variety than is usual for albums of chant, with the alternation of solo and choral singing and the use of drones. The sound of the voices, both individually and as a group, is disciplined but relaxed, and exceptionally pure, with immaculate intonation. The sound of ECM's recording is perfectly clean with an ideal level of resonance. Highly recommended.© TiVo
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Light Eternal – The Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen

Chamber Choir of Europe

Classical - Released October 26, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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The Landscape of the Polyphonists

Huelgas Ensemble

Classical - Released March 25, 2022 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy

Sequentia

Classical - Released April 4, 1994 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Pärt: A Tribute

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Classical - Released May 12, 2009 | harmonia mundi

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Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Vol. 5

Palestrina

Classical - Released June 2, 2014 | Coro

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Veni Creator Spiritus

Harpa Dei

Gospel - Released April 23, 2021 | Harpa Dei

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Marriage of The Heavens and The Earth

Hildegard von Bingen

Classical - Released January 28, 2008 | Jade

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Mnemosyne

Jan Garbarek

Classical - Released April 12, 1999 | ECM New Series

Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble waited nearly five years before trying to follow up their surprisingly successful Officium album, but finally they came through with an even more adventurous two-CD set of jazzman-meets-early-music-voices. Here, their range straddles no less than three milleniums (just missing a fourth by a couple of years), from the "Delphic Paean" of Athenaeus circa 127 B.C. to a lullaby by the contemporary Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, with intervening contributions by Hildegard von Bingen, William Billings, and Thomas Tallis, Iroquois Indians, Basque and Peruvian folksongs, and many more far-flung choices. Most daringly, the four voices themselves now start to improvise on scraps of ancient material culled from old book bindings and the like, though it's hard to determine exactly where this occurs (probably during some passages of wordless vocalise). Ultimately, despite the freer methods, the results are often pretty much the same as Officium on disc one -- soothing, timeless sonic frescos reverberantly recorded in the same Austrian St. Gerold monastery, with Garbarek soaring over or threading through the texture ever more sparingly. Yet on disc two, Garbarek and the Hilliards start to move into other worlds, breaking into something more disturbing and even atonal in that ancient "Delphic Paean," the syncopated harmonies of Garbarek's own "Loiterando," or a strange-sounding Russian Psalm from the 16th century. This is a collaboration in transition, and one hopes it will continue to evolve. © TiVo
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Epicon

Globus

Rock - Released July 24, 2006 | Imperativa Records

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Charpentier: Litanies de la Vierge, Motets pour la maison de Guise

Ensemble Correspondances

Classical - Released August 26, 2012 | harmonia mundi

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Veni Sancte Spiritus

Harpa Dei

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released March 21, 2021 | Harpa Dei

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Messe des Anges

Schola Grégorienne De L'Université De Strasbourg

Classical - Released February 1, 2004 | Studio SM

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Vivaldi: Ostro Picta & Gloria - Bach: Magnificat

Collegium Musicum

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released March 1, 1991 | Chandos

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Vivaldi: Gloria, Magnificat and concerti

Patrizia Biccire

Classical - Released April 1, 1997 | naïve classique