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ID: GCCD4050 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Subcollection: Sacred Songs of SorrowHighly successful & interesting arrangements of Negro Spirituals, plus the lovely Four Prieres for St Francis of Assisi by Poulenc. |
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ID: GMCD7111 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection Recorded in: St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast |
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ID: COR16079 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Collection: Sacred Music Subcollection: ChoirPresenter: Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by founder Harry Christophers. The music takes us on a journey of over six hundred years, from haunting plainchant through to the celebrated music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Highlights include Palestrina's motet Assumpta Est Maria, and Allegri's Miserere.
Region Code: ALL, NTSC, Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo
DVD Format: DVD 9
Screen Format: 16.9 Anamorphic
Duration: 120 mins Approx
Color mode: Colour
Subtitles: none
DDD - 24 bit digital recording |
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ID: GMCD7226 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Choral and OrganChristopher Eastwood plays the organ for In The Bleak Midwinter, and conducts The Three Kings.
Mark Williams (A Spotless Rose)
Rebecca Willcox (In The Bleak Midwinter)
William Tallon (In The Bleak Midwinter)
Sylvia Garnsey (Coventry Carol, Once In Royal)
Thomas Lydon (Three Kings)
Poulenc: Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel
Poulenc’s religious music, while expressing perfectly his profound Catholic faith, was always closely bound up with his relationships with friends and lovers. He had been catapulted back to the church in 1936 by the death in appalling circumstances of the composer Pierre-Octave Ferroud. His great opera Dialogues des Carmelites was deeply affected by the illness and death of his lover Lucien Roubert. These four exquisite miniatures seem to have been written, between November 1951 and May 1952, at least in part as gifts for their dedicatees: indeed they are such private pieces that no proper record exists of their first performance. What may have been their premiere was given, rather incongruously, in Madrid by the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Poulenc dedicated the first of them, a dark, tender setting of "O Magnum Mysterium", to the conductor of that performance, Felix de Nobel. The gentle second motet "Quem Vidistis Pastores" was a tribute to one of Poulenc’s closest woman friends, Simone Girard. She was the secretary of the Avignon Concerts Society and by all accounts an indefatigable organiser and fine amateur pianist. To Poulenc she was indispensable. In a letter of 1951, in which he offers her the "Quem Vidistis", he tells her "You have the ultimate intelligence - quite simply that of the heart, a sentiment surely appropriate to this evocation of the simple shepherds seeing the star over Bethlehem. The set is completed by a setting, marked "Calme et doux", of "Videntes Stellam", and an exultant "Hodie Christus Natus Est" which seems to be made up entirely of fanfares. |
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ID: GD118 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Subcollection: ChoirThe programme is part of the series of liturgical music released by Gega New and contains performances of the Sofia Priest Choir established in 1947. The choir has been conducted by prominent Bulgarian clergymen who were masters in the details of the Orthodox singing. For this CD, dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, the choir's current conductor, Kiril Popov, musician, graduate of the Sofia Ecclesiastical Seminary, with a PhD Degree from the Moscow Ecclesiastical Seminary, has selected some famous psalms, as well as pieces by renowned composers of church chants. The richness of sound of the male voices, the hues of timbres and colours make a special impression in the tracks Praise the Lord from the Heavens, mode 5, by John Koukouzeles, a great historical figure in Bulgarian musical culture, and O Holy God, in which the singers show their mastership in the jubilant singing. The choir sings beautifully these complex compositions and the deeply emotional, elevated music. Cherubic Hymn, mode 5, Meet It Is, mode 5 by Ioan Ohridsky also deserve special attention. Among the other performances are In Thy Kingdom by Dobri Hristov, the remarkable author of Bulgarian religious music, as well as the masterpiece O God, Save Thy People by the Russian composer, Pavel Chesnokov. The last track in the CD is the traditional Bulgarian chant Grant, O Lord, Many Years - a message and greeting to all Christians.
Soloist:
Markov, Protodeacon S. (1, 4, 6, 12, 14, 17)
Archpriest B. Chakov (4, 8, 10)
Archpriest I. Mihov (1, 6)
Archpriest M. Minchev (5)
Archpriest A. Naidenov (6)
Interprets: Chakov B., Mihov I., Minchev M., Naidenov A., Popov, Sofia Priest Choir
Recorded in St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral June 1997/ Balance G. Nedyalkov, editing I. Litov |
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ID: GD126 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleInterprets:
Orthodox Chamber Ensemble
Klochkov, Vivian - conductor
Soloist:
S. Atanasov - bass (10, 11, 14, 16)
K. Nazlumov - tenor (11, 14, 16)
N. Yordanov - bass (8) |
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ID: GD133 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Subcollection: ChoirThe conductor has selected nine of the most popular chants for festive services dedicated to Lord Jesus Christ and his sufferings during the last three days of his earthly life. Famous composers of Russian sacred music like Kedrov, Bakhmetiev and Tchaikovsky, as well as the Bulgarian Dobri Hristov, arranged and harmonized the old church motifs, thus turning them into brilliant pieces full of compassion and glorification of Christ's sacrifice. The chants are sung in Church-Slavonic with the fluency and timbre variety characteristic of East-Orthodox music. |
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ID: GD142 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: VoicesAs a continuation of GEGA NEW's idea to present troparia and chants from the Passion Week common in the practice of East-Orthodox community, Miroslav Popsavov has selected in this programme some of the most typical for the New-Year service chants related to the wedding ceremony. The psalms glorifying God and Jesus Christ are arranged in the order required by the canons. Most of the melodies, of ancient origin, have been arranged by Russian and Bulgarian composers. The most popular among them are Mnogoletie (For Many Years) and Dostoino est (Meet It Is), which have also become concerto pieces in the repertoire of the Slavic male choirs. The CD is of interest for everybody who would want to look into the world of Orthodox music, the ancient roots of which are in the Byzantine chant and service. Later on, in Church-Slavonic singing there were not only transferred canons, troparia and various jubilation modulae, but new chants were also created on the basis of Bolgarskii rospev and the so called znamenii chant, elements of which are present in some of the works included in this release. |
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ID: GD158 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: LiturgyGretschaninov: Vespers Liturgy, Op. 59
3 - Soloists: M. Vassileva - mezzosoprano
B. Spirov - tenor
S. Atanassov - bass
9 - Soloists: Y. Ilieva - alto
S. Atanassov - bass
I. Tsaneva - mezzo-soprano
B. Spirov - tenor |
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