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Special offer. Paradisum: Serene Sacred Songs

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Jose Carreras (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu...

Paradisum: Serene Sacred Songs

Special offer. Paradisum: Serene Sacred Songs

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Jose Carreras (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu...

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This 2CD collection brings together the calmest and most thoughtful sacred songs ever written, performed by the world’s greatest singers including Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, José Carreras and Bryn Terfel.

Composers range from Mozart and Bach to the contemporary cool of today’s great writers such as Eric Whitacre and Ola Gjeilo.

Artists

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Jose Carreras (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Felicity Palmer (soprano)

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, The Holst Singers, Voces8, Sir Neville Marriner

Contents and tracklist

Schubert: Ave Maria, D. 839 (Orch. Gamley)
Work length4:51
Excerpt,Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48
Work length4:05
Pie Jesu
Track length4:05
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'
Work length6:00
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring, BWV 147
Track length6:00
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
Work length4:39
Lloyd Webber, A: Requiem
Work length3:45
Pie Jesu
Track length3:45
Handel: Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1
Work length3:01
"Ombra mai fu"
Track length3:01
Gounod: Repentir (O Divine Redeemer)
Work length5:28
Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K618
Work length3:36
Giulio Caccini, Vladimir Vavilov: Ave Maria
Work length5:39
Schubert: Wiegenlied, D498
Work length3:56
Excerpt,Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (5)
Work length3:14
Der Engel
Track length3:14
Excerpt,Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Work length3:06
IIIf. Lacrimosa
Track length3:06
Excerpt,Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Work length3:06
  • Andrea Haines (soprano), Emily Dickens (soprano), Christopher Wardle (countertenor), Barnaby Smith (countertenor), Oliver Vincent (tenor), Samuel Dressel (tenor), Paul Smith (baritone), Dingle Yandell (bass)
  • Voces8
  • Recorded: 2014-05-16
  • Recording Venue: Dore Abbey, Herefordshire
VI. Bogoroditse Devo
Track length3:06
Tavener: Song for Athene
Work length5:34
Excerpt,Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48
Work length3:08
VII. In paradisum
Track length3:08
Gounod: Ave Maria
Work length2:57
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
Work length5:36
Gjeilo: The Ground
Work length3:38
  • Ola Gjeilo (piano)
  • Tenebrae, The Chamber Orchestra Of London
  • Recorded: 2015-04-15
  • Recording Venue: All Hallows Church, London
Excerpt,Bernstein: Mass
Work length4:08
Simple Song
Track length4:08
Franck, C: Panis angelicus, CFF 209 (Re-Orch. Gamley)
Work length4:04
Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
Work length3:37
  • Natalia Kornieva (soprano)
  • St. Petersburg Chamber Choir
  • Nikolai Korniev
  • Recorded: 1994-01-29
  • Recording Venue: St. Peter & St. Paul Fortress Cathedral, St. Petersburg
10. We Praise Thee: "Tebe poem"
Track length3:37
Mascagni: Sancta Maria
Work length3:37
Ramirez, A: Misa Criolla
Work length3:49
  • José Carreras (tenor), Domingo Cura (percussion), Jorge Padín (percussion)
  • Coral Salvé de Laredo, Sociedad Coral de Bilbao
  • José Luis Ocejo
  • Recorded: 1987-07
  • Recording Venue: Ampuero, Laredo
1. Kyrie
Track length3:49
Mendelssohn: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2
Work length2:51
Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur sapientiam
Work length4:47
  • Emily Dickens (soprano), Andrea Haines (soprano), Chris Wardle (countertenor), Barnaby Smith (countertenor), Sam Dressel (tenor), Oliver Vincent (tenor), Paul Smith (baritone), Dingle Yandell (bass)
  • Voces8
  • Recorded: 2013-04-11
  • Recording Venue: L'Eglise de Notre-Dame, Hement
Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera, motet for soprano, strings & continuo, RV 630
Work length6:47
I. Nulla in mundo pax sincera
Track length6:47
Excerpt,Rachmaninoff: Songs (12), Op. 21
Work length2:25
VII. Zdes′ khorosho
Track length2:25
Excerpt,Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K339
Work length4:52
5. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
Track length4:52
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Magnificat in D major, BWV243
Work length4:02
Quia respexit...Omnes generationes
Track length4:02
Whitacre: Lux aurumque
Work length4:11
  • Grace Davidson (soprano), Katy Hill (vocalist), Eloise Irving (vocalist), Lucy Goddard (vocalist), Anne Jones (vocalist), Ruth Gibbins (vocalist), Chris Tortise (vocalist), Benedict Hymas (vocalist), Jonathan Bungard (vocalist), Rueben Thomas (vocalist), Peter Foggitt (vocalist), Ashley Riches (vocalist), Stephen Kennedy (vocalist), Amelia Berridge (vocalist), Rachel Spencer (vocalist), Louise Wayman (vocalist), Marie Macklin (vocalist), Charlotte Brosnan (vocalist), Hanna Berridge (vocalist), Gillian Plummer (vocalist), Francesca Mastaglio (vocalist), Lucy Cox (vocalist), Bethan Moore (vocalist), Ruth McElvanney (vocalist), Felicity Buckland (vocalist), Sarah Maxted (vocalist), Tori Longdon (vocalist), Christopher Hann (vocalist), Felix Leach (vocalist), Christopher Palmer (vocalist), Michael Bradley (vocalist), David Bond (vocalist), David Le Prevost (vocalist), Robert Garland (vocalist), Jonathan Bell (vocalist), Dominic Barberi (vocalist), Sandy Walker (vocalist)
  • Eric Whitacre Singers
  • Eric Whitacre
  • Recorded: 2010-08-05
  • Recording Venue: St. Silas Church, London
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