Sacred Vocal Music
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J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
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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Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
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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Mozart : Great Mass in C Minor & Exsultate, Jubilate
Masaaki Suzuki
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by BIS on 2 Dec 2016
Prise de Son d'Exception5 de DiapasonGramophone AwardGramophone Editor's Choice5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikAs 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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Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass
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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Michel-Richard de Lalande: Grands Motets, Dies irae, Miserere, Veni creator
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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J.S. Bach : St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
John Eliot Gardiner
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by SDG on 3 Mar 2017
5 de DiapasonGramophone AwardGramophone Record of the Month5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikRecorded 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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Bach : St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion)
René Jacobs
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on 7 Oct 2013
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Antonio Vivaldi : Gloria - Dixit Dominus
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on 15 Jul 2012
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem
Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by naïve classique on 29 Sep 2014
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Telemann: Seliges Erwägen - Passion-Oratorium
Gottfried von der Goltz
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Aparté on 23 Mar 2018
5 de DiapasonFrom 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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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Magnificat, Wq. 215
Hans-Christoph Rademann
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 10 Feb 2014
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Bach : Christmas Cantatas BWV 110, 151, 63
Philippe Pierlot
Cantatas (sacred) - Released by Mirare on 18 Nov 2013
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Johannes Brahms : Ein Deutsches Requiem
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by RCA Red Seal on 15 Oct 2010
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J.S. Bach : Consolatio
Philippe Pierlot
Cantatas (sacred) - Released by Mirare on 16 Feb 2018
Diapason d'or / ArteGramophone Editor's ChoiceThe 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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J.S. Bach : Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
John Eliot Gardiner
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by SDG on 6 Nov 2015
4 étoiles Classica5 de DiapasonFor 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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Buxtehude : Membra Jesu Nostri
Philippe Pierlot
Sacred Oratorios - Released by Mirare on 22 Mar 2019
5 de DiapasonGramophone Editor's ChoiceComposed 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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J. S. Bach : Magnificat (Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot)
Philippe Pierlot
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Mirare on 5 Nov 2009
Hi-Res AudioPhilippe 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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BACH: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
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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Bach : "Actus tragicus" (Cantatas BWV 4, 12, 106, 196)
Konrad Junghänel
Cantatas (sacred) - Released by harmonia mundi on 31 Jul 2007
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Dvorák : Stabat Mater, Op.58, B.71
Jiří Bělohlávek
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 5 May 2017
Diapason d'or / ArteDiapason d'or de l'annéeDiapason d'or5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikAntonín 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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Rachmaninov : All-Night Vigil
MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Genuin on 21 Jul 2017
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