Sacred Vocal Music

Raphaël Pichon

Sacred Oratorios - Released by harmonia mundi on 11 Mar 2022

From the opening chorus, it’s clear that Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble are sensitive to nuance. They present a work filled with details an ...

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René Jacobs

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 13 May 2022

Without even mentioning the playing styles or instruments, this new version of the Mass in B is clearly a far cry from the grandiose austerity that pr ...

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Masaaki Suzuki

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by BIS on 2 Dec 2016

As he reached the end of his magisterial cycle of Bach cantatas, one might have been forgiven for asking, "Well, what's next?" for conductor Masaaki S ...

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Les Arts Florissants

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Jun 2022

A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any lit ...

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Ensemble Correspondances

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 4 Feb 2022

By the end of Louis XIV’s reign (and after the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully), Michel-Richard de Lalande (or Delalande) was the King’s favourite musici ...

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John Eliot Gardiner

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by SDG on 3 Mar 2017

Recorded live at Pisa Cathedral in 2016, this recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, is of a piece with the touring Bach Cantata Pilgrimage ...

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René Jacobs

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 7 Oct 2013

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on 15 Jul 2012

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Accentus - Laurence Equilbey

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by naïve classique on 29 Sep 2014

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Gottfried von der Goltz

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Aparté on 23 Mar 2018

From the start of the 18th century, Lutheran Germany has kept the tradition of performing an oratorio for the Passion in Holy Week. In Hamburg, where ...

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Hans-Christoph Rademann

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 10 Feb 2014

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Philippe Pierlot

Cantatas (sacred) - Released by Mirare on 18 Nov 2013

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by RCA Red Seal on 15 Oct 2010

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Philippe Pierlot

Cantatas (sacred) - Released by Mirare on 16 Feb 2018

The cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus gathered the twelve to Himself) BWV 22, holds a historic place in Bach’s work. Indeed he composed it ...

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John Eliot Gardiner

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by SDG on 6 Nov 2015

For his new recording of this monument to Bach, John Eliot Gardiner is limited to a light chamber orchestra (obviously the English Baroque Soloists, f ...

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Philippe Pierlot

Sacred Oratorios - Released by Mirare on 22 Mar 2019

Composed by Dietrich Buxtehude in 1680 for the church of Lübeck, where he had been working for ten years, Membra Jesu Nostri describes the scars of th ...

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Philippe Pierlot

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Mirare on 5 Nov 2009

Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort's 2006 recording of Bach's Magnificat brings back the glory days of historically informed performances, thos ...

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Masaaki Suzuki

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by BIS on 3 Oct 2007

Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan have already made an impressive contribution to the recorded canon of Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred music ...

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Konrad Junghänel

Cantatas (sacred) - Released by harmonia mundi on 31 Jul 2007

Jiří Bělohlávek

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 5 May 2017

Antonín Dvorák's Stabat Mater, Op. 58, truly merits the adjective "tragic"; it was written after the deaths of two of the composer's children in succe ...

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MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost

Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Genuin on 21 Jul 2017

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