The reissue of this 2000 release serves as a reassertion of a way of playing the ensemble music of Giovanni Gabrieli that remains rare, although contemporary sources offer plenty of justification for doing it this way. Part of the problem is the specificity of Gabrieli's music to St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, which has changed a lot since his ...
Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent have already made a couple of other great Schütz recordings. There's the heartrending Musikalische Exequien from 1987 and the awe-inspiring Geistliche Chormusik from 1994. But good as those recordings were, they aren't in the same league as this 2005 recording of Schütz's opus ultimum, his ...
Harmonia Mundi's Biber: Litaniae de Sancto Josepho, featuring Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel, is one of the finest recordings ever made of Salzburgian Baroque sacred choral music. Recorded in Melk Abbey in Austria, these combined period instrument groups pack a real wallop inside the Melk Abbey's cavernous interiors, and ...
Compared with the other ongoing series of Bach's cantatas, those of conductor Masaaki Suzuki and his historical-instrument Bach Collegium Japan are quite restrained in their basic outlook. There are warmer, more humanistic readings (such as those by John Eliot Gardiner), and there are northern European performances that make greater use of the ...
Fruits de la Passion is a sampler disc, presenting music that was heard at the Montreal Baroque Music Festival in 2003 and 2004. It's not clear why it is labeled with the date 2005. Perhaps it was intended to be sold at the 2005 festival but was released later for general sale. In any event, it's an invitation to the festival, held in the Old ...
Heinrich Schütz's final set of Symphoniae Sacrae was composed in 1650, as Germany was emerging from the chaos of the Thirty Years' War. With the exception of the magnificent Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415, these pieces for five to eight vocal parts with instrumental ensemble are less well known than the composer's earlier sacred ...
Though no doubt sincerely spiritual, what one often admires most in Masaaki Suzuki's recordings of Bach's cantatas is their intense humanity. With his adept and idiomatic Bach Collegium Japan plus the services of soprano Carolyn Sampson, counter-tenor Robin Blaze, tenor Gerd Turk, and bass Peter Koooij, Suzuki turns in skillfully directed ...
At first glance, one should take note that this disc by the redoubtable Cantus Cölln with Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel is devoted to Virgilio Mazzocchi and not to his better known elder brother Domenico. Virgilio Mazzocchi was a native of Civita Castellana and began his career as a church musician in the cathedral there; with his ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
![J.S. Bach: Cantatas 91, 101, 121, & 133 [Hybrid SACD]](http://images.alibris.com/cover/m20296he5mk_t.jpg)
![Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 39 [Hybrid SACD]](http://images.alibris.com/cover/m52381rob4t_t.jpg)
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide or All Movie Guide. © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. All Music Guide and All Movie Guide are registered Trademarks of All Media Guide, LLC.