Choral, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis settings, Schütz (composer)
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If not texturally pared down, this is a journey where the 86-year-old Schütz withdraws from the world in a lexicon of finely drawn plainchants, antique modes, taut contrapuntal and antiphonal... —Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th May 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Vox Luminis’s Florian Sievers is a compassionate Evangelist and Erika Tandiono delivers the Angel’s appearances to the shepherds and Joseph blissfully (her sentimentality shared by dulcetly... —
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It would be a shame if the lack of English translations of the sung texts put potential investigators off hearing this enjoyable survey of Schütz's richly expressive music. The sonorous acoustic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Editor's Choice
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Polychoral polyphony is all very well but it’s the simplest material that is the true measure of this recording. Martin Luther and Johann Walter’s Verlieh uns Frieden gnädiglich is a unison... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Special offer. A Baroque Christmas
Vox Luminis, Ricercar Consort, Le Fenice, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Akademia, La Pastorella, Syntgama Amici, Mare Nostrum, Ensemble Faux Bourdon, Les Agremens
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The Yale Schola Cantorum comprises roughly 30 singers and a dozen instrumentalists, but they sound light and bright nonetheless. They make a fine impression in the opening Hodie Christus natus... —
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Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.
Matthew Martin (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
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The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is... —
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