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Sacred music; what have you been listening to lately?

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A thread just for sacred music...

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another beautiful production from The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, well worth including to your listening pleasure.
 
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Giovanni Sgambati - Messa Da Requiem (1895)

Pupil of Liszt although this late romantic requiem sounds more Wagnerian to me. Very rich but fairly low key, not a Verdi opera-like mass. Supposedly Sgambati was trying to remake Italian instrumental music and drag it away from it all simply being in service to opera.

Ethel Smyth - Mass in D (1891)

That led me to discover that suffragette Ethel Smyth also wrote a mass. Got to listen to that one now too.

Igor Loboda - "Requiem for Ukraine"

Is sacred music ever not political? Well it rather clearly is here. Lisa Batiashvili performs a new piece for solo violin, an instrumental requiem for Ukraine.
 
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Pergolesi:
Nel chiuso centro - chamber cantata
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
La conversion e morte di San Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania: Sinfonia to the sacred drama
Questo è il piano
Marianna Pizzolato (contralto)
Stabat Mater
Anna Netrebko (soprano) & Marianna Pizzolato (contralto)

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Not only is this my favourite interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater but also this is my favourite performance of Neterbko and Pizzolato.
 
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Big surprise: gobs and gobs of Bach, Buxtehude, and Graupner. Every time I sneeze the conductor's score for a cantata comes rocketing out. Right now my big craze has been Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan, their St. John Passion is mind blowing. If I could live in Leipzig and listen to High German music during every church music I would probably find a way to go every time they held a service, multiple times a day. Because I'm self employed and have the time to spare I'm sure you would find me more often than not sitting in Bach's own pew with a handkerchief handy just in case I start crying like a little girl.

And I'm not even Lutheran. Could care less. That's a hard act for any pastor to follow up.



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I swear, one day I will take a seat in the Thomaskirche and gaze straight at God's throne. Sorry guys, I couldn't find a recording of the St. Matthew Passion in the Thomaskirche on youtube, would be nice to gaze at the mosaics and wonderful architecture as I listen.
 
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There are some absolutely stunning pieces on this recording and some wonderful singing from a star studded cast

Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell'Assunzione di Maria Vergine
Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
I highly recommend it and now on special offer from my favourite music store that I mention too often.

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Anton Webern. That's all.
 
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Possibly my favorite cantata by Graupner: Gott sei uns gnädig, GWV 110941.

God be merciful and bless us.
The old year has come and gone.
Jesus is still my high priest yet.
Is your bounty worth it?
Open your hands Jesus.
Let me see your treasures.
God be gracious and merciful.
 
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Im lisening to the Cosmedin Ensemble, anima mea(my soul) this bowed psaltery is so well from god in a way,it give the vocal chants who are superbe an edge. oh man i love this cd, it clearly sanctified the house each time i lisen to it...music that you can feel, anima mea embrassed your soul reach your heart, sound corny but this is the effect of the music on my karma.

Great jobs Cosmedin ensemble jeez i hope they do another one like this one, may i dare say true angelic music, than the price of admission is cheap it's naxos you have no excuse not to buy this one.I post about this in the past and i still find this captivating.
it survive multiple lisening, time test and it's that good.
 
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Cherubini for me too. I usually reach for his Messe Solennelle n:eek: 2 in D minor - I can't get enough of it.
 
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Sorry - back to annoy you !

Always on the lookout for lovely sacred music. Recent 'discoveries' include:
Bernard Zweers; Sint-Nicolaas Cantate (Parts 1 & 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6RhkWmbAs...haven't discovered yet if there's much more. Maybe someone here...?
Rudi Tas; Miserere for cello & choir One of a number of very pleasant sacred works by this composer.
Armando Pierucci; Via Crucis
Peter Maxwell Davies; Tenebrae Super Gesualdo
Modest(e) Mussorgsky; Messe de St. Nicolas (link to Kyrie)
Stanislaw Moniuszko; Premiere Litanie a la Vierge d'Ostra Brama (link to Kyrie)
Arvo Part; Salve Regina

Hope something here appeals to someone - always happy to 'chat' about sacred music !
 
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