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Download Size: 122 Mb
Running Time: 02:39:59
Release Date: August 2007
Originally recorded in 2007
Anonymous
Nova Schola Gregoriana
Alberto Turco
Nova Schola Gregoriana
Giovanni Melloncelli
Josquin des Prez
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly
Oxford Camerata
John Taverner
Harry Christophers
The Sixteen
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter
Cambridge Singers
Thomas Tallis
David Harries
William Byrd
Judy Lieber
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Murray Khouri
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Claudio Monteverdi
Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Mike Skeet
Giacomo Carissimi
Consortium Carissimi
Vittorio Zanon
Consortium Carissimi
Heinrich Schütz
Veronika Winter
Bettina Pahn
Henning Voss
Jan Kobow
Henning Kaiser
Ralf Grobe
Wolfgang Helbich
Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble
I Febiarmonici
Andrew Walton
Mike Clements
David Trendell
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Concert Spirituel Chorus
Hervé Niquet
Concert Spirituel Chorus
Dominique Daigremont
Manuel Mohino
Orlando Gibbons
Thomas Weelkes
Gary Cooper
Henry Purcell
Laurence Cummings
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ingrid Kertesi
József Mukk
Judit Nemeth
Istvan Gati
Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra
Mátyás Antál
Hungarian Radio Chorus
Janos Tóth
Géza Oberfrank
George Frideric Handel
Dorothee Mields
Ulrike Andersen
Mark Wilde
Chris Dixon
Concerto Polacco
Lynda Russell
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Thomas Randle
Mark Padmore
Lynne Dawson
Matthew Vine
Symphony of Harmony and Invention
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Herbert Lippert
Viktoria Loukianetz
Robert Holzer
Kalman Strausz
Norine Burgess
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia
Michael Halász
Franz Joseph Haydn
Kurt Azesberger
Gabriele Sima
Béla Drahos
Hanno Müller-Brachmann
Sunhae Im
Christine Wehler
Max Ciolek
Capella Augustina
Andreas Spering
Cologne Vocal Ensemble
Felix Mendelssohn
Christoph Genz
Sibylla Rubens
Matthias Goerne
Scot Weir
Thomas Mehnert
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
Helmuth Rilling
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart
Anton Bruckner
Matthew Morley
Robert Jones
St. Bride's Church Choir, Fleet Street
Gabriel Fauré
Lisa Beckley
Colm Carey
Nicholas Gedge
Oxford Schola Cantorum
Johannes Brahms
Miriam Gauci
Eduard Tumagian
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ali Rahbari
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
Hector Berlioz
Frank Almond
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Yoav Talmi
San Diego Master Chorale
Victor and Marina Ledin
Stuart A. Rosenthal
Gustav Mahler
Izabella Klosinska
Jadwiga Rappe
Piotr Nowacki
Barbara Kubiak
Marta Boberska
Ewa Marciniec
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University Choir
Charles Villiers Stanford
Carys-Anne Lane
Francis Poulenc
Danielle Borst
Orchestre de la Cite
Michel Piquemal
Ile de France Vittoria Regional Choir
Yves Rousseau
Philippe Pelissier
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Thomas Fitches
Noel Edison
Elora Singers
Norbert Kraft
Benjamin Britten
Philip Langridge
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
Thomas Tallis Chamber Choir
John H. West
Mike Hatch
Iain Farrington
Benedict Giles
Joseph Helps
Oliver Lepage-Dean
Christopher Robinson
Choir of St. Johns College, Cambridge
Arvo Pärt
Jurgen Petrenko
Classical
Choir
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Singing is a basic form of human expression – whether of worship, sorrow or joy – and the sound of a choir in full cry is a spine-tingling experience. Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favourites such as John Rutter and Arvo Pärt, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz and Mahler. The religious and social background to the music also receives due attention. This comprehensive and comprehensible guide is supported and illustrated by two-and-a-half hours of richly varied music on two CDs.