I am in no way a religious person but I do love sacred music and I like to listen to the music written to mark the major events of the christian calendar. I suppose the church is a part of my schooling and my culture; my father was a church organist and choirmaster of an Anglican school choir and perhaps we do tend to look for god in the place where our father's left him.
Anyway, here's the highlights of my easter playlist for those who have an interest in sacred choral and vocal music -
Grechaninov - Music for Passion week - Charles Bruffy - Phoenix chorale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s3glHAKick&list=PL266fgWmNDv_--wGb0qQhu_h1e_t_nbzY&index=1
Available for download at http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=CHAN%205044 in CD quality. Full of Russian melancholy and drama. Beautiful - no instruments because the Russian orthodox church didn't allow instruments. One of my favourites.
Pergolesi - Seven last words of Gracious - Rene Jacobs - available on Harmonia Mundi SACD and Hi Res download - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wP2dSq9NVY - whole work here - try the soprano solo starting at about 26:00 although there are many highlights. This masterpiece only recently discovered and attributed to Pergolesi.
Bach - Easter Oratorio - Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent http://www.amazon.com/Easter-Oratorio-Cantata-Bwv-66/dp/B00000079U
New release from Clare College Cambridge -Haec dies: Music for Easter superbly recorded and sung collection of music spanning half a millenium - sensitively curated and wonderfully interpreted - I've listened to this one twice through already
http://www.eclassical.com/harmonia-mundi/haec-dies-music-for-easter.html - previews pause every 30 seconds, click play to hear more.
Haydn: Die Siebern Letzten Worte Unszeres Erl?sers Am Kreuze, H.XX-2. Harnoncourt - http://www.allmusic.com/album/haydn-die-siebern-letzten-worte-unseres-erl%C3%B6sers-am-kreuze-mw0001353125
Bach - St John Passion - Layton and his hand picked Polyphony and the Orchestra of the age of the Enlightenment. If you're going to get one of these make it this one. Absolutely definitive in my view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdxiiiQ1Buc and available for download at http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67901/2
The list goes on but I'm struggling to find online samples -
Mozart - Laudate Dominum
Vivaldi Stabat Mater
Beethoven - Gracious on the mount of Olives - a lesser known oratorio
Add to the list - even if it's from one of the inferior genres :sh1tstirrer:
For gracious read chr1st
Anyway, here's the highlights of my easter playlist for those who have an interest in sacred choral and vocal music -
Grechaninov - Music for Passion week - Charles Bruffy - Phoenix chorale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s3glHAKick&list=PL266fgWmNDv_--wGb0qQhu_h1e_t_nbzY&index=1
Available for download at http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=CHAN%205044 in CD quality. Full of Russian melancholy and drama. Beautiful - no instruments because the Russian orthodox church didn't allow instruments. One of my favourites.
Pergolesi - Seven last words of Gracious - Rene Jacobs - available on Harmonia Mundi SACD and Hi Res download - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wP2dSq9NVY - whole work here - try the soprano solo starting at about 26:00 although there are many highlights. This masterpiece only recently discovered and attributed to Pergolesi.
Bach - Easter Oratorio - Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent http://www.amazon.com/Easter-Oratorio-Cantata-Bwv-66/dp/B00000079U
New release from Clare College Cambridge -Haec dies: Music for Easter superbly recorded and sung collection of music spanning half a millenium - sensitively curated and wonderfully interpreted - I've listened to this one twice through already
http://www.eclassical.com/harmonia-mundi/haec-dies-music-for-easter.html - previews pause every 30 seconds, click play to hear more.
Haydn: Die Siebern Letzten Worte Unszeres Erl?sers Am Kreuze, H.XX-2. Harnoncourt - http://www.allmusic.com/album/haydn-die-siebern-letzten-worte-unseres-erl%C3%B6sers-am-kreuze-mw0001353125
Bach - St John Passion - Layton and his hand picked Polyphony and the Orchestra of the age of the Enlightenment. If you're going to get one of these make it this one. Absolutely definitive in my view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdxiiiQ1Buc and available for download at http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67901/2
The list goes on but I'm struggling to find online samples -
Mozart - Laudate Dominum
Vivaldi Stabat Mater
Beethoven - Gracious on the mount of Olives - a lesser known oratorio
Add to the list - even if it's from one of the inferior genres :sh1tstirrer:
For gracious read chr1st
