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Greater Love: The English Choral and Organ Tradition/ECU Chamber Singers, Bara
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The ECU Chamber Singers and organist Janette Fishell are conducted by Daniel Bara in these monuments of the English choral tradition. The choir’s sound is greatly enhanced by the sumptuous acoustics of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, and its large, new Fisk organ.
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Praise Parisienne/National Lutheran Choir, David Cherwein, dir; Martin Jean, organ
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The National Lutheran Choir’s first recording on Gothic! David Cherwien directs the NLC—2007 winner of the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence– through a program of popular French choral music, joined by organist Martin Jean of Yale, playing on the Casavant Organ (Opus 1177) at Saint Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minnesota.
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Bach: St John Passion - 1725 version/Yale Schola Cantorum - Carrington (2 CDs!)
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The rarely performed 1725 version of Bach’s St. John Passion is presented by Yale University’s premier early-music ensembles. Simon Carrington, who initiated his illustrious musical career as cofounder of the King’s Singers, directs this live performance.
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Gaudete in Domino: An English Lady Mass by Thomas Packe/Schola Gothia
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Polyphonic settings of the ordinary of the Mass by Thomas Packe (fl. 1487-1499) are interspersed with Gregorian chant in this program which was recorded in the magnificent acoustics of the Varnhem Abbey. The four women of the Grammy-nominated Schola Gothia sing from manuscripts in historical notation on a single large music stand, facilitating a unity of ensemble that gives this music an authentic, transcendent spirit.
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Across the Bar... / St. Mary's College Women's Choir
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On the leading edge of the choral art, The Saint Mary's College Women's Choir, under the leadership of conductor Dr Nancy Menk, have assembled a program featuring fine new music from many of the most talked-about new choral composers. American composers William Hawley, Michael Sitton, Frank Ferko and Gwyneth Walker, and Finnish composer Jaakko Mantyjarvi, are just some of the names we'll be hearing about in fine choral music for this generation and the next. The works of these composers, as well as some classics, are assembled and presented here by one of the finest collegiate women's choirs in the U.S.
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Beautiful Rain: The Notre Dame Glee Club/Daniel Stowe
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The Notre Dame Glee Club is a music tradition that began at the University in 1915. Since 1993, Daniel Stowe has led the Glee Club in world-wide tours with great success.
Today, Glee Club repertoire is not just football songs, sea shanties and the alma mater theme. In recent years, the choir has been trimmed in numbers to 55 select singers, and their repertoire now focuses upon a wider range of styles: from German art songs, American spirituals, Russian Orthodox, Baroque and Renaissance sacred music, to Barbershop harmony and folk music from nations of the world. The Glee Club's versatility is showcased in the wide variety of genres on this disc.. The musicianship of the Glee Club is all the more remarkable when considering that the Glee Club is a volunteer ensemble, operating independently from music degree programs. Recorded in spring 2007, in the finely-tuned acoustic of Leighton Concert Hall in the newly-finished DiBartolo Performing Arts Center on the campus of University of Notre Dame.
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Hommage a Messiaen/Colin Andrews
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Olivier Messiaen’s French-Catholic mysticism is reflected in his unique musical vocabulary—it forms the basis of one of the most important organ repertoires of the twentieth century. His “Nativity Suite” is one of the most popular of his early organ works, offering musical meditations on the themes and characters of the Christmas story. Also included is the premiere recording of Lionel Rogg’s Hommage à Messiaen. Acclaimed organist Colin Andrews presents his own musical homage for the centenary of Messiaen’s birth (2008).
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J.S. Bach: Weimar Preludes and Fugues/Lippincott
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Bach's prelude and fugue compositions reached an extraordinary peak of sophistication and virtuosity during his tenure as court organist in Weimar (1708-1717). Joan Lippincott plays the Paul Fritts organ in a highly reverberant room that is not unlike the court chapel in Weimar.
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Ja kyung Oh plays the Yokota/GOArt organ of Seoul, Korea
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Munetaka Yokota—researcher, designer, and organ builder at GOArt (the Göteborg Organ Art Center) at Göteborg University, Sweden—designed the organ at Korea National University of Arts (K'Arts) according to the style of Arp Schnitger and based on the extensive Schnitger research done by GOArt. Yokota especially modeled this organ after an example of Schnitger's in Charlottenburg (Berlin), which demonstrates some significant differences from Schnitger's North German instruments.
K'Arts organist Ja kyung Oh is director of the Early Music Institute at K'Arts.
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Bach, Improvisations and the Liturgical Year/Ruiter-Feenstra
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This recording documents a recital given by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra on the Martin Pasi organ of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood, WA. Compositions of J. S. Bach were organized by the liturgical year, and interspersed with Ruiter-Feenstra's own improvisations. Based on ideas found in Bach’s works and stemming from genres he most commonly used, her improvisations create new works using Bach’s compositional processes. In her roles as artist and teacher, Ruiter-Feenstra is a major advocate of improvisation and performance on historically-based instruments.
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Water and Light: Scott Montgomery
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Scott Montgomery won First Prize in the July, 2006 competition known as NYACOP (National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance) sponsored by the American Guild of Organists. This new Pro Organo CD reveals Mr Montgomery as a virtuoso with solid technique and with a keen and rare interpretative depth. The varied program covers the French Classic, Age of Bach, and the French Romantic, German Romantic and French contemporary schools.
The organ is the large 4-manual organ built by John Mander for Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, located in the fashionable Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Recorded with multi-channel DSD® (Direct Stream Digital®) technology and released as a conventional stereo audio CD.
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Bach: Trio Sonatas/Rakich et al. (2 CDs!)
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Scored for organ (or pedal clavichord), the Bach trio sonatas can be played on a variety of instruments, as Christa Rakich demonstrates in this imaginative program. Six different organs, six different organ builders, and an assortment of period chamber music instruments are used on this double-CD set!
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Promenade: A Musical Procession through paintings at Memorial Art Gallery/Bellotti
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Italian organ virtuoso Edoardo Bellotti creates this musical “promenade” based on a sampling of paintings at Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. Improvisations by Bellotti connect organ works by Frescobaldi, Pasquini, Vivaldi, and others, which are paired with seven paintings. Includes full-color images of the paintings and notes by Nancy Norwood, the museum’s Curator of European Art. Performed on the museum’s organ, the only full-size Italian Baroque organ in the Western hemisphere.
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How Brightly Shines the Morning Star/St. Mark's Cathedral (Seattle) Choir/Mel Butler
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The chorale “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” (“How brightly shines the Morning Star”) is presented on this CD in a wide variety of musical styles, along with other hymns, anthems and voluntaries for the season of Epiphany. J. Melvin Butler directs the cathedral choir in this program of familiar–and unusual–works.
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Lighten Our Darkness & Compline/Cambridge Singers
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The Office of Compline has inspired a great deal of music over the centuries, dealing with the themes of night, death and ressurection. This ancient monastic service is sung just before going to bed, and typically concludes with an elaborate anthem to the Virgin Mary. John Rutter and The Cambridge Singers bring polish and atmosphere to this program of works related to Compline; a second disc has the unadorned Office of Compline, beautiful in stark simplicity.
Two discs for the price of one!
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The Story of King's College Choir / "The Boast of King's"
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This film, made at the time Philip Ledger was choirmaster, tells the story of the King’s College Choir and the famous chapel. Includes interviews with choir members and many beautiful photographs of the chapel.
Music heard in the DVD includes: Herbert Howells: Nunc Dimittis; Psalm Prelude, Op. 32 (organ). Robert Parsons: Ave Maria. Gregorio Allegri: (arr. Mozart): Miserere. Philip Radcliffe: Fecisti Nos. Ley: King Henry VI’s Prayer. Cole Porter: Night & Day. Randy Newman: Dayton Ohio 1903. Traditional.: Plainsong; Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven; God is Our Hope and Strength. Marcel Dupré: Prelude & Fugue in B (organ). J. S. Bach: Trio in D minor (organ).
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And on Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass
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This CD is a significant milestone in Chanticleer’s long history of commissioning new works and supporting contemporary composers. All but one of the five Mass composers represented wrote for Chanticleer for the first time on this recording; all were selected for the project by Chanticleer’s music director, Joseph H. Jennings.
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French Éclat at St. Thomas Church, New York/Jeremy Bruns
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Jeremy Bruns served as a music associate under John Scott in the music program of Saint Thomas Church in New York City until his recent appointment as Organist-Choirmaster of St Paul’s Cathedral in Buffalo. A winner of several organ competitions, Jeremy Bruns shows his technique to be in top form as he gives stunning renditions of Widor's complete Sixth Organ Symphony, and the virtuosic Ascension Suite by Messiaen. Recorded on the historic Aeoline-Skinner of St Thomas Church in New York. A complete stoplist of the organ is provided.
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Cleveland in Columbus
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The first recording of the Fritts organ at St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio! Dedicated in December, 2006, this organ took more than two years to construct, consists of about 5,000 pipes, and ranks as one of the largest mechanicalaction organs in the United States. Gothic artist Douglas Cleveland, director of music at Plymouth Congregational in Seattle, “pulls out all the stops” in the organ’s vast tonal palette. The CD starts with a Battalia for the horizontal trumpet stop (located inside the pedal towers).
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Buxtehude organ works, v.2: The Bach Perspective/Davidsson (2 CDs!)
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Drawn by reports of the acclaimed organist of the Mariankirche in Lübeck, Dieterich Buxtehude, the 20-year old J. S. Bach traveled almost 300 miles to hear Buxtehude’s music first hand. On the second in our three-volume set of the complete organ works of Buxtehude, Hans Davidsson plays the ground-breaking repertoire that was known to Bach and his circle, and which may have influenced his musical compositions and performance.
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