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Weihn Weihnachts Oratorium Christmas Oratorio - J. S. Bach

Weihn Weihnachts Oratorium Christmas Oratorio - J. S. Bach
ID: COR16017
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Oratorios

The Christmas Oratorio is one of Bach's greatest masterpieces and this recording is one of The Sixteen's finest.

Lynda Russell (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor, Evangelist), Michael George (bass, Herod), Libby Crabtree (angel, Echo)
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Sarah Connolly - Heroes and Heroines - Handel

Sarah Connolly - Heroes and Heroines - Handel
ID: COR16025
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir

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Bach: Cantatas 34, 50, 147

Bach: Cantatas 34, 50, 147
ID: COR16039
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

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Vivald: Gloria in D major / Bach: Magnificat in D major - The Sixteen - H. Christophers

Vivald: Gloria in D major / Bach: Magnificat in D major - The Sixteen - H. Christophers
ID: COR16042
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Baroque

About this title: The small British chorus called the Sixteen and director Harry Christophers have delivered consistently popular recordings of Renaissance and Baroque music, maintaining very high standards of performance. Here they couple two of the most popular Baroque works of all, Vivaldi's Gloria in D major, RV 589, and Bach's Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, and the results are handsome indeed. The tenor of the performances flows from the conceptions of each work that Christophers expresses in one of the little personal essays that appears at the beginning of each booklet in this series: Vivaldi, he said, is "effective," and even operates in places here "at his simplest," while Bach is "complex." Some would use other words first, for each composer -- daring or kinetic for Vivaldi, devotional or a dozen other words for Bach. There are recordings that give Vivaldi in general and the Gloria in particular more of an edge; there are recordings of Bach that seem warmer, or more rooted in the sacred texts.
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J. S. Bach - Mass in B minor BWV 232

J. S. Bach - Mass in B minor BWV 232
ID: COR16044
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

Bach's Mass in B minor displays all the ingredients that that contribute his supreme ranking amongst his peers of any age, and also demonstrates the breadth of compositional skills amassed during his lifetime. It demands choral singing of blistering athleticism but also sensitive, responsive and, at times, majestic orchestral playing coupled with virtuosic obligatos along with a team of soloists who can breathe an immediacy of expression into the words of the mass. All these elements are well to the fore in this magnificent recording.
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Fedel e Costante - Handel Italian Cantatas - Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano

Fedel e Costante - Handel Italian Cantatas - Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano
ID: COR16045
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir

Recorded live at The Sixteen's Handel in Oxford Festival, 2006, Elin Manahan Thomas gives a performance of captivating communication and sparkling intelligence in these stunning and contrasting Handel Cantatas, bringing to life the world of four women, all of whom have been betrayed by love and its deceitful charms.

Agrippina, sister of Caligula and wife of Claudius, vacillates from fiery monarch in outrage to a tender mother appalled by her son's weakness. At the last, she resigns herself to a noble death at the hands of her cruel, ignoble son. Nel dolce dell' oblio descries the sweet oblivion of sleep as the beloved Fili lies dreaming of her darling. Tu fedel, Tu Costante has the singer berating her beloved, Fileno, for his philandering ways as he loves a hundred beauties and wishes to share himself with them all. In the last aria she decides either to love another, or to live entirely with out love henceforth. Armida abbandonata tells a tale of desperate, unrequited love. When the Saracen witch Armida falls in love with captured warrior Rinaldo, Armida bewitches him to love her in return but eventually her spell fails and Rinaldo returns to his ship and abandons her.
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