Haydn2032 - No.16

The Surprise

Kapustin: Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 6

Rautavaara - Aho

joy & asymmetry

Doux Silence

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - François Lazarevitch

Fauré: Requiem (1888)
Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina

Crossroads

Ksenija Sidorova plays Bach, Akhunov, Tabakova & Montero

Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots

Kuhnau: "Uns ist ein Kind geboren"

Weihnachtskantaten

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem

Schnittke: Film Music - Vol.6

Little Tragedies

Clarinet Trios

Hartmann - Gade - Mendelssohn

Monteverdi: Testamento - Vespro della Madonna 1643

New Monteverdi Verspers from his true musical testament

Sorabji: Vocal and Chamber Works

Pietro Auletta: L'Orazio

(World Premiere Recording)

Wilms: Symphony No.6 & Overtures
Music of the Angels

Media Vita

Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria - Missa Cantate

Media Vita
SHEPPARD John (ca.1515-1558) Choir of Westminster Cathedral - Martin Baker Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA68187 1 CD Spielzeit : 079:39
CHF 19.50


Even by the standards of a time and place - Tudor England - in which masterpieces of choral polyphony appear to have been virtually an everyday occurrence, there is something uniquely and intensely compelling about the surviving works of John Sheppard. This is music designed to be sung by liturgical professionals, and none rise to its demands quite like Westminster Cathedral Choir.