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Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott
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Luther and the Music of the Reformation
Bart Jacobs (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Lionel Meunier’s assured direction never misses (nor overstates) an expressive trick; and Vox Luminis’s warmly inflected singing is throughout finely-attuned to the way in which every note has... — More…
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The 12 voices of Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis put their faith in tonal focus and sweetly balanced textures. Though one might expect from that a certain coolness, their singing produces music-making... — More…
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
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Recorded live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2008
Katharine Fuge (soprano), Matthew Brook (bass)
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The recorded sound has great immediacy, and the chorus produces a beautifully sustained and richly coloured vocal tone. Gardiner's flexibility in tempo, phrasing and dynamics (which Brahms favoured)... — More…
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New, Venice 1629
The Gonzaga Band
A crisp and vivid evocation of the milieu of Venice, 1629. That was the year Heinrich Schütz went to Venice and encountered the music of Monteverdi and his acolytes. The playing is faultlessly... — More…
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Recorded live at Royal Festival Hall, London, 5-8 October 2008
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
everything seems in focus: not just the tempo, but also the rhythmic drive and urgency seem absolutely right in the third and fourth movements...This performance gives a lively sense of what... — More…
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The King's Singers - GOLD
The King's Singers
The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... — More…
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Kantate - German Baroque Cantatas
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor)
Concerto di Viole & Basel Consort
…the union of youthful timbre, sublime instrumental playing and explorative repertoire achieves a rare kind of perfection here. …essential for lovers of Baroque vocal music. — More…
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Da Pacem: Echo der Reformation
RIAS Kammerchor, Capella de la Torre
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 chant,... — More…
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Schütz - Musikalische Exequien & Kleine geistliche Konzerte
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La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
From early-Baroque Germany no more heart-felt funeral meditation exists than Schütz's Exequien, supplemented here by six exquisite motets. This superb chamber-scale performance still merits... — More…
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Schütz: Opus Ultimum
Collegium Vocale & Concerto Palatino, Philippe Herreweghe
This…enthrals, with superb interpretations and glorious depths of sound from choir and instruments in a wondrously lively recording. Subtle, profound and energised, Philip Herreweghe’s intricately... — More…
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