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another beautiful production from The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, well worth including to your listening pleasure.
 
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Paër: Il Santo Sepolcro (The Holy Sepulchre)
Preceded by Invito by Giovanni Simon Mayr (1763-1845)

Cornelia Horak (soprano), Miriam Clark (soprano), Vanessa Barkowski (alto), Valer Barna-Sabadus (alto), Thomas Michael Allen (tenor), Klaus Steppberger (tenor), Jens Hamann (bass) & Thomas Stimmel (bass)

Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble, Franz Hauk
 
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Berlioz: Te Deum, Op. 22

John Aler (tenor), Mark Kruczek (organ)

Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra, Young Singers of Pennnsylvania, Dennis Keene


For this performance, which was captured live in this recording, the Voices of Ascension were augmented up to a total of 140 of New York's finest professional singers, probably the largest all-professional chorus that has ever sung this work. Another 140 members of The Young Voices of Pennsylvania sang the children's chorus part. There was an orchestra of over 100 players, including a double number of winds and brass, and four pairs of cymbals and military field drums. Tenor John Aler was the vocal soloist, and Mark Kruczek was at the great Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. John the Divine. Berlioz's requirement of a vast performing space was certainly met on this occasion. The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City is the largest Gothic space in the world. It is so vast, in fact, that a fortissimo orchestra or organ chord will reverberate in the cathedral for several seconds, even when the cathedral is packed with thousands and thousands of people, as it was the night of the concert.
 
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J.S. Bach:

Cantatas BWV 18, BWV 23 & BWV 1

Siri Thornhill (soprano)
Petra Noskaiová (alto)
Marcus Ullmann (tenor)
Jan van der Crabben (bass)
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
This is quiet a chance to the one above, I like that, I was born with the wrong key in my blood, according to my piano teacher.
 
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