For all it's charm and elegance, Lennox Berkeley' unique compositional voice is marked in his sacred choral music by an inner conviction borne of a strong personal faith. In this regard he mirrored...
Scarlatti / Scandrett Sacred Choral Music CD1. Iste Confessor, Motet for Soprano, Chorus ; Organ in G Major 2. Miserere, Motet for Double Chorus in E minor 3. Salve Regina, Motet for Soprano, Alto ;...
Even though Charles Gounod is now mostly remembered as a composer of the opera Faust, his main creative focus was church music. His sacred oeuvre eclipses that of his French contemporaries, but...
Lulli is given praise, Corelli great acclaim; Telemann alone is above all fame, wrote the music author Johann Mattheson in 1740. Mattheson's claim was quite accurate: the director of music in Hamburg...
Cleobury / Willcocks Miserere: Sacred Choral Music CD1. Allegri: Miserere Mei 2. Palestrina: Exsultate Deo 3. Palestrina: Peccantem Me Quotidie 4. Lotti: Crucifixus 5. G. Gabrieli: O Magnum Mysterium...