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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'
Arleen Augér, Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley & David Thomas
Winchester Cathedral Choir & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Mozart left unfinished the work that ought to have been the choral masterpiece of his early Viennese years but there's enough of it to make up nearly an hour's music – music that's sometimes... — More…
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54
RecommendedNancy Argenta, Emily Van Evera, Timothy Wilson, Anthony Rolfe, David Thomas, Jeremy White
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano I), Emily Van Evera (soprano II), Panito Iconomou (alto), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
Solisten Des Tölzer Knabenchors, Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Building a Library, April 2000, First Choice
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Building a Library, May 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, Also Recommended
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) & Selva morale e spirituale
Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott
The first recording to engage fully with the scholarly debates regarding the form, purpose and pitch of the work, this 1984 version is a comprehensive and radical attempt to reconstruct a festal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Best-kept Secrets
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson & David Thomas
Chorus and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Building a Library, February 2016, Also Recommended
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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV211 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht' (Coffee Cantata), etc.
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump & David Thomas
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
These two most delightful of Bach's secular cantatas here receive sparkling performances fully alive to the humour and invention of the music. The Coffee Cantata illustrates a family altercation... — More…
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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One of the earliest and best Vesper sets, certainly the prettiest-sounding. The quality of singers, the rising early music stars of their age, is unsurpassed. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna & Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Jaap Ter Linden (cello), Henk Bouman (harpsichord), Hajo Bäß (violin), Karlheinz Steeb (viola), Jonathan Cable (violone), Hopkinson Smith (guitar), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Nigel Rogers (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedJudith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliot, David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Stodge no more. In Christopher Hogwood's hands, Messiah was no longer a ponderous and portentous work, but something tightly sprung and which demanded your attention. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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