SUMMER COMBO #2: BRAHMS CHORAL WORKS + DVORAK CHORAL WORKS (13 CD)
SUMMER COMBO #2: BRAHMS CHORAL WORKS + DVORAK CHORAL WORKS (13 CD)
FORMAT (CD, LP, DVD?)
FORMAT (CD, LP, DVD?)
Summer Combo #2 combines beautiful but not well known works by two popular composers. Better known for their symphonic works, their choral compositions cover an emotional gamut that includes the sacred.
DVORAK: SACRED CHORAL MUSIC
Unrivalled in the catalogue, this box brings together all the works in a genre for which Dvořák has been undervalued. The composer was himself a lifelong Catholic, a man of uncomplicated faith and not prey to spiritual torments in the manner of his contemporary Bruckner.
Dvořák wrote religious music throughout his career, though his first substantial contribution was the Stabat mater of 1876-7. This large-scale setting burns with a restrained pathos likely intensified during the period of composition by the deaths of his children. One of the most personal of all his major works, the Stabat mater sets the tone for the equally large-scale St Ludmila oratorio of 1886 and the Requiem of 1890: not for Dvořák the hellfire and damnation so vividly evoked by Berlioz and Verdi in their settings of the text: sorrow andconsolation are the Requiem’s key-signatures, just as devout belief infuses the Czech legend of St Ludmila.
The Mass in D was originally composed in 1887 with organ accompaniment, but the carefully integrated nature of his setting is in the spirit of the late Masses by Haydn and Schubert, as he recognised by orchestrating it a few years later. His final sacred work is the elementally exuberant Te Deum of 1892, which looks back in spirit to his robust and festive setting of Psalm 149.
The recordings in this box are all modern, made during the last 20 years by ensembles in Cologne, Navarra, Warsaw and Washington, and masterminded by noted choral conductors including Gerd Albrecht (St Ludmila), Robert Shafer (Stabat mater, Psalm 149) and Antoni Wit (Requiem, Mass in D, Te Deum).
BRAHMS: CHORAL MUSIC
Brahms’s choral music ranges from the severe magnificence of the Fest- und Gedenk-sprüche to the ravishing opulence of the Op.17 Songs for female voices, horns and harp. Brahms conducted amateur choirs throughout his professional life, both as a useful source of income and because he enjoyed his contact with enthusiastic, amateur music-makers, not least the ladies in his various choirs. It also gave him a chance to explore music of former eras, by Bach, Schütz, Buxtehude and more, which Brahms considered a vital part of his musical heritage and which, practically speaking, he was bringing back to life in a culture that barely knew its own history. We may with some justice speak of Brahms the period-instrument pioneer.
These splendid modern performances come from a choir of a similar size to the one Brahms would have recognised, and are directed by the experienced choral trainer Nicol Matt.
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Bach: St John Passion - ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC / STEPHEN CLEOBURY (2 HYBRID SACDS)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Triple Concerto - BERNARD HAITINK / MARIA JOAO-PERES / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HYBRID SACD)
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 / Leonore Overture No. 2 - BERNARD HAITINK / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HYBRID SACD)
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - SIR COLIN DAVIS / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (2 HYBRID SACDS)
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Berlioz: Harold En Italie / La Mort De Cleopatre - VALERY GERGIEV / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HYBRID SACD)
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Waverley Oveture) - VALERY GERGIEV / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (2 Discs, incl. Blu-Ray Audio, Hybrid SACD Versions and Live Concert Footage)
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Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem - BRITTEN SINFONIA / STEPHEN CLEOBURY (HYBRID SACD)
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Brahms: German Requiem - VALERY GERGIEV / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HYBRID SACD)
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - BERNARD HAITINK / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HYBRID SACD)
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Britten: Peter Grimes - SIR COLIN DAVIS / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (3 HYBRID SACDS)
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Britten: The Turn Of The Screw - LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / FARNES (2 HYBRID SACD)
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Bruckner: Mass In E Minor, Motets - KINGS COLLEGE CHOIR / CLEOBURY (HYBRID SACD)
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Byrd: Motets - KINGS COLLEGE CHOIR / CLEOBURY
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Durufle: Requiem - ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTMENT / STEPHEN CLEOBURY (HYBRID SACD)
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 - SIR COLIN DAVIS / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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Haydn: Die Schopfung (The Creation) - SIR COLIN DAVIS / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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Liszt, Reubke & Mendelssohn: Organ Works - STEPHEN CLEOBURY
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LOVE FROM KING'S - THE KING'S MEN
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - VALERY GERGIEV / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HYBRID SACD)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 & 10 - VALERY GERGIEV / LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (2 HYBRID SACD)
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