Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Br Klassik - Mid Price / BR Klassik
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4035719005189
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: GLORIA
Description
The Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks can be heard here performing highlights of sacred choral music dating from the Baroque period to modern times. Even today, three hundred years later, the large oratorio choirs by Bach and Handel are as vivid, realistic and captivating as ever. Haydn succeeded in preserving this for the sacred music of the Wiener Klassik era, which reached its peak in Beethoven's Missa solemnis. The heartfelt masses composed by Schubert are typical of early German Romanticism, Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass is the French equivalent here, and Dvo?ák's Stabat mater represents Bohemian Romanticism of the mid- to late 19th century. Verdi's famous Messa da Requiem testifies to the close relationship between Italian opera and Italian church music. The Mass written just before the end of World War II by the Hungarian composer Kodály is still Late Romantic in its musical language, while in his Berlin Mass, written shortly before the start of the 20th century, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt maintains the Tintinnabuli style that informs and inspires his work.
Tracklisting
Friedrich Gulda/Hager
Hermann Prey
Chor Des Bayerischen
Brso/Kondraschin
Various
Jorg Handstein
Jansons/Brso/Schloffer
Jansons/ Brso
