Reference

Composer

Title

Performer

Tracks

Notes

Our_£

RRP_£

Reviews

GMCD7104

Schubert / Haydn

The Choir of St. Pauls Cathedral, London Bach Orch. Barry Rose.

Schubert: Mass in G. Haydn: Nelson Mass in Dminor.

Schubert seemed to find his soul as he wrote this Mass. In the Haydn, apart from Julie Kennard, the choir provide solo parts. A chamber organ is used additional to the Mander north choir organ.

£12.50

£12.99

REG CD103

Kodaly

Kodaly

Regent Chamber Choir Cond.by Gary Cole Organ. John Scott

Missa Brevis,(8 tracks with soloists).. Pange Lingua, Laudes Organi

Three of the large-scale works composed for mixed choir with organ

£12.50

£12.99

I left this recording uncommonly refreshed. (Hi-Fi News)

CD6144

13 different composers

Great Choral Classics

Different choirs/orchestras

Great choruses from Orf, Pergolesi, Verdi, Bruckner, Bach, Wagner, Mozart, Handel, Haydn, Puccini, Beethoven..

Choruses stay in the mind thanks to simplicity and power of this the oldest component of classical music. Beethovens 9th to Verdi's Libera Me sung at Diana's funeral.

£3.50

£4.00

A very special offer from Church Mouse at an "I can't believe it" price.

ROY701052

Bach

The Art of Fugue

Bell Arte Ensemble

18 tracks of the original explanation by Bach of how fugues are derived

EMI recording of Eurostar players showing the variations possible to orchestra (and organ) on a theme. Make a change for we organists to hear it played as intended on strings

£5.00

£5.00

ROY6425

Bach

Matthaus Passion

Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, Piet van Egmond

18 excerpts

EMI recording in Holland with Amsterdam Oratorio Choir and Boys choir

£5.00

£5.00

MDK48296

Bach & Handel

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

20 great choruses from RPO, Columbia SO, Philadelphia Orchestras.

Yanks still think Might is Right. Well, it certainly seems to work for this vast choir singing the old chestnuts like you heve never heard them before!

£10.00

£10.99

Seldom have we heard a big choir under such control

99137

Bach JS

4 Passions

Various including Kings, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

8CDs give the full Matthew, John, Mark & Luke with mainly British conductors and soloists

What a present for a choral enthusiast with classical leanings. All four in a boxed set at a super price. We wish to offer you decent recordings and the best buys. Well here is one.

£21.00

£23.99

08 5023 71

Bach JS

Magnificat

Vienna State Opera

Magnificat (12 parts) plus Cantatas BWV 50 & 70

Odd that in his lifetime Bach was not revered at all, unlike his son CPE. Only after his death did all these wonderful offerings really begin to find a platform

£5.50

£5.99

99174

Bach JS

Matthaeus Passion

Kings College, Cambridge (Stephen Cleobury ),

26 edited highlights. Soloists Emme Kirk, Michael Chance.

Written for Good Friday Vespers at Leipzig, an hour long sermon would interrupt the two sections to assert dominance of The Word in Lutheran reformed 'liturgy'. This pure gold lasts 77mins!

£9.00

£10.99

74321 305042

Bach, Gounod, Scarlatti, Galuppi, Bernhard

Christmas Cantatas

Hamburg Soloists Orchestra

Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod), Cantata Pastorale (Scarlatti), Christmas Aria, &Concerto 2 (Galuppi), Christmas Cantata (Bernhard)

The famour solo 'Ave Maria' taken by Hellen Kwon is one of a number of religious cantatas leading us to the Christmas Gospel in Church Services.

£5.50

£5.99

Excellent performance especially Cologne's soloist Hellen Kwon from Korea.

8550827

Bach, Handel, Mozart…

Allegri and other Choral

Scholars Baroque, Oxford Camerata

13 track compilation of the famous choral masterpieces featured in Naxos

Parts of Bach's Mass in B, Handels Messiah, Ein Feste Burg, Christmas Oratorio. Moxart's Ave Verum, Requiem, Vesperae Solennes. Palestrine Lesson 1, Allegri Miserere

£5.00

£5.00

A good disc for those encountering serious music for the first time.

74321 292352

Bach, JS

Organ Works (Baroque music series)

Zsigmond Szathmary

Tocc & Fu in D minor, Pass & Fu in C minor, Fugue in G minorBWV578, Fantasy & Fu in G minor, 6 Schubler chorales etc

72 minutes is a good sampler of these famous organ works at a budget price

£5.00

£5.00

"Bach was a master of Organ Music - full of grandeur, power and imagination

74321 304892

Bach, JS

Musical Offering

London Festival Orchestra Ensemble

Musikalisches Opfer - Musical Offering BWV1079

Bach is recorded as visiting the King Friedrich at Potsdam only to be presented with an 8 bar theme to turn into a fugue! JSB made enough of it to fill this CD. Orchestral

£5.50

£5.99

This is so unusual we had to include it although it was an 'offering' to the King, not God.

8550832/3/4

Bach, JS

St. Matthew Passion

Hungarian Festival Choir

3CD Set of the entire work on a grand scale and admirably performed, with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, Childrens Choir, and nine soloists

'Passion' of course is the Gospel narrative of events leading to Easter, Christ giving himself up to be crucified. Bach wrote in German.

£13.50

£15.00

Music being the great international language, allow Bach's faith to be portrayed through this fine music

8553198

Bach, JS

St. Matthew (Highlights)

Hungarian Festival Choir

14 of the 68 parts of this great work, reduced down for your enjoyment if you do not have 3 hours to spend! 3CD set also available

Bach fluctuated between duties as Church Organist/choirmaster and providing music at Court. In between times he conducted the University choir, producing masterworks like this for them

£5.00

£5.00

4 masses for Easter use the Gospel account from each of the 4 evangelists, one for each day

8553257

Bach, JS

Favourite Arias and Choruses

Hungarian, Slovak, Scholars Baroque

Best known excerpts from Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor, St.Matthew and St.John's Passion

A four-part compilation to give the taste of Bach in relation to his greatest choral works

£5.00

£5.00

Another superb little taster of an important phase in the development of Classic style church music

CD QSS324

Bach, JS

St.Matthew Passion in English

Bach Choir, St.Pauls choristers, Thames Chamber Orch

Sir David Wilcox is joined by Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Felicity Lott, Neil Jenkins, Alfreda Hodgson, Stephen Roberts

3CD set. This has got to be the best classical production on our books for performers and price. Wonderful music which you CAN afford

£13.50

£14.99

78 track epic intended to be part of a Church Service with spoken passages. People today want to take the music yet not give the Worship it asks of us.

8550664/5

Bach, JS

St. John Passion

Scholars Baroque Ensemble

The full work in 40 parts on 2 CD Set

One of the greatest works from this writer described as the King of Baroque Music, to be performed in church as the basis of an Easter Mass

£9.50

£10.00

Translation is provided in the excellent notes if your German is past it's Sell-by date

74321 636322

Bach, JS

Mass in B Minor BWV232

Munich Symphony Orch, Europa Choir Academy

25 parts contained on 2CD's

The Latin Mass written by a Protestant? Saxony was a harmonious mix of the two when Bach worked there. Nobody had a problem with that, and that is how true faith is. And faith was his motivation. It's inspiring stuff.

£10.00

£10.99

"CD budget price but a new recording of the highest quality

8550763

Bach, JS

J.S.Bach

Schola Cantorum, Oxford, Jeremy Summerly

Magnificat in D (12 parts) BWV243, Cantata "Ich habe Genug" (5 parts)BWV82

Northern Chamber Orchestra. SoloistsAnna Crookes, Jayne Whittaker, Carolyn Trevor, Timothy Robinson, Nicholas Gedge, Organ Christopher Stokes

£5.00

£5.00

Choir and composer are well enough known to guarantee the performance

SK60155

Bach, JS

Heart's Solace

Taverner Consort (Parrott)

23 motets and Odes described dauntingly as Funeral Music. Do not be put off by that!

Fact:We all have to go. For a Christian believer, death is not an end but a beginning, the key that unlocks the prison doors of earthly sorrow.

£13.50

£14.99

Be as morbid as they liked, Bach wasn't having any of it. He loved God with all his heart, knowing tears today meant joy in the morning.

8553435

Bach,Beethoven, Handel, Vivaldi, Chopin

In Memoriam

Oxford Camerata, Bertalan Hock organ, and others

Death of Queen Mary, Largo from Serse, Dance of the blessed spirits, Marche Funebre, Albinoni's Adagio, Dead March from Saul, Notre Dame, Jesu Joy, Last Spring

There is a place for everything, including sad remembrance of our loved ones. You might see this as a beautiful tribute to our humanity

£5.00

£5.00

All tracks derived from other albums

08 5017 71

Beethoven

Mass in C major

Sofia Philharmonic with the Rodina Choir

5 movements

Dramatic expression and spiritual depth join in a 'great' Mass for a devout congregation assembled for worship

£5.50

£5.99

08 9272 71

Beethoven

Christus am Olberg

Stuttgart Philharmonic

8 part Oratorio for orchestra, choir and soloists

Heard of this? Musicians of the highest calibre, Lieselotte Rebmann soprano is notable in eating up the most demanding arias. Your collection is not complete yet…

£5.50

£5.99

08 5021 72

Berlioz

Requiem

Utah Symphony Orch, Maurice Abravanel, with the University Choir

2CDs

We set out to provide British productions, but this US one is so notable. It uses 4 brass sections and huge resources to create the most expansive sound demanded by Berlioz. Splendid work.

£10.00

£10.99

CDA66991/2

Berlioz, Hector

L'Enfance du Christ

Corydon Singers and Orchestra

A Sacred Trilogy using soloists and choirs to tell the story of the flight of Jesus, Mary and Joseph from Herod into Egypt, in French. But it is the music..incredible!

"No previous recording has moved me like this one…magical…Heavenly" The Independent. "Tour de force of expressiveness, discipline, and meticulous attention to detail.

£24.00

£29.99

"A real Gem, superbly focussed netural and musical balance in which everything feels right" Gramophone

SMK60175

Bernstein, Leonard

Children's Classics

New York Philharmonic

Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev), Carnival des Animaux(Saint Saens), Britten's Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra.

This forever enthusiastic conductor shares his love of the orchestra in a delightful narrative to help children understand that real music is enjoyable

£10.00

£10.99

He chats his way through, pulling in bits of the orchestra. Excellently produced.

09026 608682

Brahms

A German Requiem

Sir Colin Davis with Bayerischen Rudfunks

The full Requiem, soloists: Angela Blassi, Bryn Terfel

"How lovely are Thy Tabernacles"… The work is popularly believed to be a spiritual reaction to the death of Brahms' mother in 1865.

£13.00

£13.99

CDA66126

Britten

Benjamin Britten

Corydon Singers & Westminster Cathedral

Rejoice in the Lamb, A Wedding Anthem, Festival Te Deum, A boy was Born

This beautifully made record deserves the widest circulation. The sound these choirs make is captured in a flawless recording full of atmosphere and warmth

£12.60

£13.99

"Britten would have loved it. Excellent in every respect. The presence is breathtaking, the singing superb (Gramophone)

8553558-9

Britten, Benjamin

Britten- War Requiem

Scottish Festival Chorus & Symphony Orchestra

2CD Set with 6 parts. Includes choristers of St.Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Chamber Orchestra, George McPhee, organ

Lynda Russel, Thomas Randle, Michael Volle, Conductor Martyn Brabbins

£10.00

£10.00

Sponsored by the BBC

CDS44071/2/3

Bruckner, Anton

Bruckner. The Masses

Corydon Singers & Orchestra

3 CD Set. Masses 1/2/3 plus TeDeum, Aequalis, Libera Me, Auqualis 2, Psalm 150.

James O'Donnell, John Scott, Organ, and English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble. All Top-notch soloists

£21.00

£23.00

"Hoping for a better all-round performance than this is probably an impossible dream" (Gramophone),"One of the most beautiful recordings I have ever heard (Sunday Times).

CD QS6132

Byrd, William (+ some Taverner)

BYRD, Sacred Music

Pro Cantione Antiqua

Mass for 4 Voices, Ne Irascaris, Haec Dicit, Ave Verum Corpus (Byrd), Dum Transisset, Magnificat, Te Deum, Gloria (Taverner)

While Palestrina and Lassus were writing in the 16th century, Byrd was the English pillar of polyphony

£6.00

£6.99

A little peach of counter-tenor led madrigal singing

CDA66805

Cherubini, Luigi

Cherubini Requiem

Corydon Singers and Orchestra

Marche Funebre, Requiem in C minor, with Matthew Best conductor.

"If ever a performance and a recorded sound were set fair to enthuse an audience, this is it. From the thrill of the tam-tam to the poignancy of the most expressive moments it is all here. (Org Review)

£12.60

£13.99

"A really knockout performance with some startling effects"BBC Record Rev. "Record of the Month"Classic FM Mag

SMK63155

Copland

Symphony for Organ

New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)

Copland Symphony No.3. Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (Organ -E.Power Biggs)

Warning - dissonant modernism! Thank the Lord for Post Modernism. Some will love this as a reaction against a classic schooling.

£10.00

£10.99

"Begins with a reverie, breaks into a squalling scherzo, and ends screaming like a bewildered banshee…!"

08 9274 71

Couperin

Lecons des Tenebres

Alfred Deller (counter tenor),

3 Lessons from the Lamentation of Jeremiah

Authentic early music sound with chamber organ and Viola da Gamba. Deller has recorded 60 albums on this label of Tudor music. It is very Beautiful.

£5.50

£5.99

CHAN9208

Elgar

Elgar - The Light of Life

London Symphony Orch. & Chorus (Richard Hickox)

The Light of Life in 17 parts

Beautiful scriptural transcription with Judith Howarth, Linda Finnie, Arthur Davies and John Shirley- Quirk

£13.00

£13.99

SB2K63247

Elgar

2CD. Sir Edward Elgar

Philadelphia/London Phil

Enigma Variations, Cello concerto (Jacqueline du Pre), Cockaigne, Pomp & Circumstance 1-5, Violin Concerto

An amazing 2 1/2 hours of some of Englands finest music on the much respected Sony label

£11.50

£12.99

If you take only one record of Elgar this time, consider this a possible.

SBK48265

Elgar, Sir Edward

Enigma, Pomp & Circumstance

London Philharmonic (Barenboim)

Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance 5 Military Marches, The Crown of India Suite.

Sleeve notes tell of the intrigue, writing musical caricatures of Elgar's friends.

£7.00

£8.99

The early 1900's were militaristic and glamorous times before the world broke up in turmoil. All the popular marches are here

SBK67176

Elgar, Sir Edward

Symphony No.2., Elegy, Serenade for Strings

London Philharmonic (Barenboim)

More from this wonderfully English composer. Nothing 'spiritual' in the church sense, but superbly uplifting.

An inspiring performance indeed. Any small classical collection must include Elgar, played in England!

£7.00

£8.99

His finest work betrays a sensitive, poetical and mystical nature in a complex yet listener-friendly work.

SBK53510

Elgar, Sir Edward

Symphony No.1, Romance, Cockaigne Overture

London Philharmonic, Barenboim

Apart from well loved Church music, Elgar's works deserve to be placed high on your shopping list. The Sony Classics are a notable collection of these super pieces

Also Romance (for Bassoon) by the English Chamber Orchestra, and the "Cockney" Overture called In London Town.

£7.00

£8.99

The Empire at irs zenith, Edwardian Splendour was everywhere. In Malvern perhaps!

560062

Elgar, Sir Edward

Elgar

BBC Phil, Sir Edward Downes

Cello Conc. Enigma Variations, In the South, Froissart

Supreme expressions of the mood of the day are the trade mark of Elgars very British composition.

£10.00

£11.99

2 CD's a remarkable price for a fine British recording.

COLCD109

Faure

Requiem and other choral

Cambridge Singers

1893 Requiem, Messe Basse, AveVerumC, TantumErgo, AveMaria, MariaMater, JeanRacine.

Mixed choir and soloists supported by orchestral ensemble, otherwise organ (John Scott). Conducted by John Rutter.

£13.00

£14.99

"a revelation; this surely is the sound that Faure imagined as he wrote…beautifully sung..quite indispensable" Gramophone

74321 304672

Faure

Gabriel Faure

London Festival Orchestra, Ross Pople

Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine, Messe Basse

"It has been said that my Requiem does not succeed in relaying the fearfulness of death. Someone called it a 'lullaby of death'. But that is how I envisage death…

£5.50

£5.99

More a peaceful deliverance than a painful departure, a longing for the happiness beyond.

SBK67182

Faure, Durufle

Requiem

Phil.Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers

Kiri Te Kanawa and Lucia Popp make this one not to miss. Outstanding value

Harp, choir of Angels, six-part chorus and organ…it gets no better!

£7.00

£8.99

They can play this at my funeral! What a way to go across the 'Bridge'.

8550765

Faure, Gabriel

Faure - Requiem

Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata

Faure Requiem Op48, Vierne Andantino, Severac 'Tantum Ergo', Faure 'Messe Basse', Faure 'Cantique de Jean Racine'

Some more serious pieces from French composers, but be assured this is not 'heavy' but gently thoughtful in attitude.

£5.00

£5.00

75605 513392

Faure, Gabriel

Faure - The Essential Collection

Liverpool Phil, Trinity College, soloists

Pavanne, Pie Jesu, Mazurka, JeanRacine, Ave Maria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Ave Verum, Nocturne 8, 3 Romances…

Faure was a blend of what we all are - secular and spiritual. He wrote as his heart dictated offering us a rich blend portrayed here

£7.00

£7.99

Features Kathryn Stott, piano.

74321 178852

Handel

Messiah (highlights)

RPO, Sir Thomas Beecham

19 tracks, soloists Vyvyan, Sinclair, Vickers, Tozzi.

An inexpensive version of the great work performed at its best.

£5.00

£5.00

75605 570572

Handel

Messiah highlights

London Musici with Kwella, Denley, Ainsley & Terfel

21 tracks, 67 minutes of the best-known bits. Full versions available from main lists

Undoubtedly our best Choral work is often sung the worst! Familiarity and all that. This performance was set up to demonstrate a degree of excellence with top rate soloists.

£9.50

£10.00

5* uplifting, 4* soothing, 3* exhiliarating, 3* joyful, and even 1* romantic (did you ever?)

74496

Handel

Organ Concerto 7/4

Harald Feller

Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op7/4, Concerto Grosso, Fireworks Music (Slovac Phil)

The most typical and significant of the 16 Haydn concerto's written as improvisations and fillers for the interludes during Oratorios.

£4.50

£5.00

Thoroughly enjoyable singing diapasons broken up by crashing parts of Full chorus in true Handelian style. Really nice!

ROY6430

Handel

The Messiah excerpts

Royal Liverpool Phil, Sir Malcolm Sargent. Huddersfield Ch. Soc.

13 excerpts

Another quality EMI recording to go out on a budget label

£5.00

£5.00

0123

Handel

Organ Concertos Op 4 & 7

Slovak Chamber Orchestra. Organ- Ivan Sokol

3CDs. All the Concertos together.

Be assured this is a very fine recording allbeit on a budget label which we have searched out for you, or I will eat my CD player!

£9.00

£10.99

09026 612662

Handel

Messiah

Royal Philharmonic - Sir Thomas Beecham

Undoubtedly one of the 'great' recordings of all time, the entire work on 3 CD's.

A landmark of recording excellence which seems never to have been surpassed was this RPO/ Beecham classic

£16.00

£17.99

Soloists - Vyvyan, Sinclair, Vickers, Tozzi

CHE00862

Handel

Sacred Cantatas

Rhein Camera Orchestra, Koln.

Silete Venti, Coelestis dum spirat aura, Salve Regina.

World class orchestra and a soaring soprano make this another 'find' for church music lovers

£5.50

£5.99

74321 592282

Handel GF

Chandos TeDeum

Drottningholms Baroque Ensemble

Chandos Te Deum in English (13 parts). Chandos Anthem 'Let God Arise' in English (8 parts)

The Handelian style of vocal/instrumental music found its way to the sanctuary and the stage thanks to his huge middle-class following with developed musical tastes

£5.50

£5.99

Commissions from the Duke of Chandos were more spiritual in concept, usually cantatas. This is the only recording available.

KING4

Handel, Bach etc

Baroque Collection

Kings Consort, New College and soloists

21 tracks of general and sacred period music from Vivaldi, Gabrieli, Purcell, Telemann, Bach and Handel

A very generous sampler full of familiar, interesting and well produced items out of the Hyperion range

£5.00

£5.00

This firm are producing some of the most highly acclaimed work of present times

SBK60293

Handel, George Frederick

The Magnificent Mr.Handel

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Groves)

30 favourite pieces which once featured greatly on every church organ recital.

The American E.Power Biggs plays delightfully on organ where required

£7.00

£8.99

You can almost guess which pieces from which works are included in this bumper package.

CDA66961/2

Handel, GF

Handel, The Occasional Oratorio

New College, Oxford, The Kings' Consort

2 CD Set of the Full Work includes soloists Susan Gritton, Lisa Milne, James Bowman, John Ainsley, Michael George

This expansive work demands the best from a fine line-up. This authoratitive performance uses mixed voices to generate sweetness and power!

£22.50

£24.00

Gramophone critics choice.

CDA66641/2

Handel, GF

Handel, Judas Maccabaeus

New College, Oxford, The Kings Consort

2 CD Set gives the full epic production of this stirring Masterwork with Emma Kirkby, Catherine Denley, James Bowman, Jamie MacDougall, Michael George

Praise indeed for this recording came from the American Handel Society, voting it Best CD of the Year.

£22.50

£24.00

Almost everything Kings Consort produces is given a Best Choice Award

ROY6489

Haydn

Schopfung (The Creation) excerpts

Berliner Symphoniker, Choir of St. Hedwigs Cathedral

17 excerpts

EMI recording of a great favourite for budget label. Quality performance and soloists

£5.00

£5.00

08 5022 71

Haydn

Mass in Time of War

Vienna State Opera

13 parts

At a time when all Europe was trembling under the boot of Napoleon, Haydn wrote this music to the familiar words of the Mass as a prayer "Lord, give us Peace"

£5.50

£5.99

08 5024 71

Haydn

The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Solisti di Zagreb orchestra

9 movements in the original version for orchestra only

Custom to perform an Oratorio at Easter in the Cathedral at Cadiz, very spiritual and moving, interspersed with scripture and short sermons. The quality here is quite excellent

£5.50

£5.99

05472 774602

Haydn, Joseph

3 Masses

CameraOchestra, Munich

Mass in G Major "Sancti Nicolai". Missa Brevis Bb major "Little OrganSolo". F major "Jungendmass"

New series of budget discs which truly reflect historical performance practise. Three serenely devout Haydn Masses here.

£5.00

£5.00

CHAN8901

Holst

Holst

London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (Richard Hickox)

The Cloud Messenger in 5 movements, and The Hymn of Jesus

Arthur Bliss felt "as though the air he breathed were noticably rarified" as he listened. The Hymn is derived from the Apocryphal St.John

£13.00

£13.99

Penguin Guide 3*

05472 774112

JSBach, CPEBach

Magnificat

Tolzer Knabenchor

Magnificat in D major (JSB), Magnificat W215 (CPEBach)

Another in this fine series of 'authentic' recordings in the style of the day, at a time when popular music was turning from Devotional to Secular by degrees

£5.00

£5.00

05472 774722

Lechner, Leonhard (d.1606)

St.John Passion

Augsburg Cathedral Domsingnaben

Title "The Story of the Passion and Suffering of our only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ", also Prima Missa.

From Germany's leading sacred music recordists, this remarkable series explores "how it really used to sound". This is so tranquil that Lechner should be on your list.

£5.00

£5.00

CDA67038

Linley, Thomas Jnr.

The Song of Moses

Holst Singers, Parley of Instruments

The Song of Moses (Exodus 15) Oratorio for Drury Lane Theatre 1777,/ Let God Arise, anthem for 3 Choirs Festival, Worcester 1773

A fine group of soloists under Peter Holman with period orchestra, altogether well- drilled and resounding

£12.60

£13.99

"The adventurous will find their curiosity amply rewarded" (Classic CD), "One of the best finds yet" (Gramophone)

M2K44553

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony No. 3

London Symphony Orchestra

Features London Sym. Chorus and Southend Boys Choir

Not notably a Christian work, Mahler glories in the observable world of Nature, and man's inner being, which we find indivisible from The Creator God.

£15.50

£17.99

2CD set. A notable work full of orchestral vocal and instrumental colour

SM3K47581

Mahler, Gustav

Symphonies 6 & 8

NewYork Phil & London Smphony Ochestra

Sym 6. New York Sym (Leonard Bernstein). Sym 8 by London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Bernstein

Also Leeds Festival Ch., Orpington Junior Singers, Highgate Boys, Finchley Childrens choirs

£21.00

£23.99

3CD set contains some very powerful sounds worthy of a serious collector of the best music.

CHAN8695

Mathias

Lux Aeterna

St.George's Chapel choir, Windsor. London Symphony Orchestra (Sir David Willcocks)

Op 88. Lux Aeterna, Domine Jesu Christe, Libera me.

Commissioned in 1982 for the 3 Choirs Festival at Hereford, then in the Royal Festival Hall, London, our recording features Dame Felicity Lott, Margaret Cable, Penelope Walker and John Scott

£13.00

£13.99

08 9276 71

Monteverdi

Maria Vespers

Ambrosian Singers & Orchestra, Denis Stevens

8 parts

When this was written in Rome 1610, Marianism had become the central theme of the church as many were afraid to even utter the precious name of Jesus. She was the 'mediator' in whos name they prayed to the Father, this devotion being portrayed musically.

£5.50

£5.99

ROY6486

Mozart

Requiem

Suddeutscher Madrigalchor, Wolfgang Gonnenwein

Complete

EMI recording . Soloists were ZylisGara, Dominguez, Schreier and Crass

£5.00

£5.00

MRFD 95904

Mozart

Mozart Requiem Mass K626

London Forest Choir. London Pro Arte Orchestra.

Solos: Carys Lloyd Roberts, Debra Stuart, Richard Edgar Wilson,Christopher Purves.Conductor Murray Stewart

The choir has a well-earned reputation for performing to a high standard in London's main concert halls. Quite delightful.

£9.00

£10.99

RD60599

Mozart

Requiem K626 in D minor

Sir Colin Davis leads Bayerischen Rudfunks

All 14 parts of the Mass

The film 'Amadeus' portrayed Mozart as poor and dissolute, but there were better times when he was clearly inspired. This is his most inspirational work.

£13.00

£13.99

Soloists: Blasi, Lipovsek, Heilmann, Rootering.

8550512

Mozart

Mozart - Church Sonatas

Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, Budapest

Complete set of 17 Sonatas

Written before the Organ took dominance, and fashionable churches had small orchestras which needed shorter works for during services

£5.00

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The organ was however a part of the ensemble as seen here

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Mozart

Mozart - Coronation Mass

Kosice Choir, Camerata Cassovia

10 tracks, the full Mass in C major K317 plus Laudate Dominum, Sub Tuum, Ave Verum Corpus, Exultate Jubilate

The music is linked with the Coronation of Emperor Leopold II in Prague 1791, but also the crowning of a miraculous statue which would hardly interest Mozart!

£5.00

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8550235

Mozart

Mozart - Requiem

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus

14 tracks. Introitus, Kyrie, Sequentia, Offertorium

Vladimir Ruso features on organ and a full line of soloists with very complicated names

£5.00

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74321 292382

Mozart

Requiem K626 in D minor

Vienna boys and mens Choir & orchestra

All 14 parts of the Mass

Another superb classic recording put out at a budget price

£5.00

£5.00

450027210

Mozart

Requiem Mass in D minor

Berlin Philharmonic

Requiem in 14 tracks with Wilma Lipp,Rossel-Majdan, Anton Dermota, Walter Berry.

DeutchesGramophon put this out at full price and it sold out. Now available at a super price

£5.00

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The most moving and expansive creation of Mozart on a recording we commend.

05472 774702

Mozart WA

Coronation Mass K317

Tolzer Knabenchor , Collegium Aureum

Coronation Mass in C major, Vesperae solennes de confessore, Litaneae Lauretatae

Mozart here played in the old way on old instruments, as it would have been with brass, strings and organ in the days of the Minstrels Gallery

£5.00

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SK46671

Mozart WA

Mozart Mass in C minor

Berlin Philharmonic (Abbado)

A mass in 13 parts with the Rundfunkchor. 1990 recording probably the best available.

Mozart may have been a bit wild but he wrote inspired music. It is doubtful if Faith inspired his mass rather than the need to work and earn!

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Whetever, this was given to God, and is considered to be a masterwork

05472 774182

Palestrina

Missa Papae Marcelli + motets

Regensburg Cathedral Choir

10 motets and the famous Mass

The Council of Trent sought to reform church and music, the mass being set then to any old tune the people could manage, often pub, folk or love songs! Palestrina offered this to the Pope as his 'sampler'

£5.00

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74321 516372

Pasterwiz, Georg von (1730-1803)

Baroque Organ & Harpsichord

Rene Clemencic

19 arrangements from the 300 short works available

A college-mate of Salieri this priest organist often wrote for the Church, on the theme of Gregorian and German hymns, being short and thematic.

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Clemencic is a world famous musicologist from Vienna.

8550766

Pergolesi, Giovanni

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater

Camerata Budapest

Stabat Mater in 12 parts, the Orfeo Cantata is included in 4 parts

Julia Faulkner and Anna Gonda are the soloists here, the Stabat using them solo or duetting in each part, quite delightfully

£5.00

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8553129

Purcell, Henry

Full Anthems & Organ Music

Oxford Camerata

12 Anthems , then Music on the Death of Queen Mary

Choir and soloists with organ accompaniment. Purcell only had a short life 1659-1695 yet made such a lot of it as to be a household word among English musicians to this day

£5.00

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Produced and conducted by Jeremy Summerly

74321 251882

Rachmaninov

Russian Choral Music 5

USSR Min of Culture Chamber Choir

15 tracks, 67 minutes of OPUS 37 Vespers

The Cathedral is famous for its accoustics which lend impression to an "all night vigil" such as this would have been.

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The splendour of the Resurrection even outshines the Star of Bethlehem.

74321 251872

Rachmaninov

Russian Choral Music 4

Moscow Chamber Choir

17 Tracks. The Litergy of St. John Chrysostom

Rachmaninov revealed a growing affinity to the basic tenets of Orthodox piety, despite the free thinking nature of his muscical temperament.

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It is most appropriate that we have gone to Russia to find an authentic recording of this work.

CHE00492

Reger

Choral Cantatas for the Church Year

Bach Choir, Mainz with soloists, organ and chamber instruments

9 tracks of Chorales

Starts off with the familiar Von Himmel Hoch of Luther accompanied lightly…it’s a beauty of a disc

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75605 570292

Renaissance

Sacred Voices

The New Company

13 by Palestrina, Allegri, Lobo, Byrd, Phillips, Mundy, Tallis, Dering

Classic FM are always consulting their listeners (in between the adverts) about the music they like. This was the result - a range of CD's which are suprisingly high-brow.

£9.50

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They awarded themselves 5* for 'Soothing' and 5* uplifting

CDA66883

Rheinberger, Joseph

Suites for Organ Violin and Cello

Christopher Herrick organ

Suite for Organ,Violin and Cello Op149, Six Pieces for Organ and Violin.

With Paul Barritt on violin, and Richard Lester on Cello, we find some unusually moving and evocative music from the 19th c.

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"This is certainly one to savour (Gramophone), "Highly attractive (Classic CD), "My record of the month (Org Review)

CSCD504

Rutter, John

Requiem & Magnificat

Cambridge Singers

Requiem 7 parts, 37 mins.with oboe, cello and soprano soloists, Magnificat in 7 parts, 37 mins.

John conducts his own very well reviewed compositions here with the choir which he leads.

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"momorable and ineffably lovely…a moving devotional account" HiFi News

COLCD112

Rutter, John

Te Deum

Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia

13 tracks are short pieces commissioned for special occasions in church…Te Deum, Be Thou my vision, As the Bridegroom, Thy Perfect love, Go forth in peace…

Originally written to be accompanied be organ, John has added the dimension of orchestra for this recording made by the BBC

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"This music has unfailing appeal" (CD Review)

COLCD100

Rutter, John

Gloria

Cambridge Singers, Philip Jones Brass, London Sinfonia

Gloria, for choir, brass, percussion and Organ; 10 anthems include O Clap your Hands, All things Bright & Beautiful, The Lord is my Shepherd…

Gloria is in three movements taking 17 minutes and all the musical resources! 10 of John's Anthems follow with orchestra

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"This is a jewel of a record" (Gramophone)

COLCD114

Rutter, John

Magnificat

Cambridge Singers,City of London Sinfonia

Magnificat. The Falcon (with St Paul's Cathedral choir). Festival Anthems - O Praise the Lord of Heaven/ Behold the Tabernacle of God.

A magnum opus from Rutter with an array of musicians providing top rate music of great power and sensitivity.

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"delightfully light hearted, bubbly and immediately attractive" (Gramophone)

CD80051

Saint Saens

Symphony No.3 for Organ

Michael Murray & Philadelphia Orchestra

Only 34 minutes of the Symphony with no padding, but pure excitement undiluted.

A huge marbled Byzantine church with an organ voiced to emulate Harrison flues and Cavailler Coll reeds. Orchestrally superb.

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For the first time out of about a dozen recordings listened to, I think this one is the ultimate perfection.

ROY6440

Saint-Saens

'Organ' Symphony No 3

City of Birmingham Sym. Orch. Organ- Christopher Robinson

oh, incidentally includes Dvorak's 'From the New World' by Berlin Phil!!

You take a risk with the Organ Symphony as many recording engineers just don't understand the instrument. This one is superb,the music beating you about the head in great swathes. Well worth £5??

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8550138

Saint-Saens

Saint-Saens Sym.3 'Organ'

Bratislava Symphony Orchestra

Symphony 3 for Organ, plus Le Rouet d'Omphale, Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah

Recording quality and ambience are perfect, the orchestra precise and well balanced, held back majestically

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then, wow, poco pronto! And the organ is full, powerful and dominant

SBK47655

Saint-Saens, Camile

Organ Sym., Animals, Macabre..

Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)

Organ Symphony with Edward Power Biggs on the Aolean-Skinner organ in the Academy of Music

Also some favourites - Bachanale, Marche Militaire, Danse Macabre, Carnival des Animaux.

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A total gem of a disc with gorgeous pieces. Organ comes over well.

75605 512932

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Scarlatti Cantatas

Arcadian Academy

Gia lusingato appieno dai Zeffiri, Arianna, Bella Madri, Poi che riseppe

In 17/18th C. Italy the name Cantata applied to sacred and secular music, such was the influence of the Church in everyday life. The words in this album then are mixed in their sentiment

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Christine Brandes is the Soloist

SBK48282

Scarlatti, Vivaldi

Stabat Mater

BBC Singers, English Bach Festival

Also Dixit Dominus (Vivaldi), Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra with popular soloists.

Early 1700's music still looked back to the rich polyphony of the Renaissance yet edging forward towards Mozart

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Before the newly protestant countries established their music styles, the Catholic styles still dominated

SM2K48456

Schoenberg

Moses ans Aaron

BBC Symphony & Singers

Written in the 1930s as a pious Oratorio telling of the conflict in the Wilderness as God was speaking to Moses whilst the people turned with Aaron to make a Golden Image instead.

The work was named an Opera as it dealt more with human passion than the Word of God. Features the Orpheus Boys Choir.

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2CD set includes the Second Chamber Symphony

SK68248

Schubert, Franz

Mass in Bb & C

Age of Enlightenment & Vienna Chorus

Mass in Bbmajor and Cmajor for solo voices, mixed chorus, orchestra and organ, conductor - Bruno Weil

Schubert was a chorister at Lichtenstal Parish Church in Vienna where the dedication and first performance was made

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Remarkably these masses are played on period instruments described in the notes

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Schubert, Franz

Mass in Eb major

Age of Enlightenment & Vienna Chorus

Mass for five solo voices, mixed chorus and orchestra. Vienna Boys Choir.

Unusually this time Schubert stuck rigidly to arranging the Latin text instead of letting his personal faith rule the construction.

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Consequently, rather than giving spiritual solace, the work rather puts the Fear of God into its listeners, no bad thing.

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Shubert, Franz

Mass in Ab major/Deutsche Messe

Age of Enlightenment & Vienna choirs

The Vienna Boys Choir and Vienna Chorus are linked with a remarkable collection of ancient instruments to produce a truly authentic sound.

Schubert had two apparent styles, the first emanating from his personal faith, and the second less inspirational but more 'correct' written as commissions.

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Both concepts are here, church and state, heart and head. All very inspiring either way.

CRD3365

Stanley

John Stanley

Gerald Gifford organ, Northern Sinfonia Orchestra

Six Organ Concertos Op10

A bright and precise recording of some of the best English baroque we have heard for a long time

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08 9267 71

Tchaikovsky

Liturgy of St.John Chrisostom

Great Mixed Bulgarian Choir

11 tracks

Byzantine Orthodox Church music is very lovely, rich, full bodied. Unaccompanied.

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74321 251862

Tchaikovsky

Russian Choral Music 3

USSR Min of Culture Chamber Choir

15 tracks. The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

"I attend Mass frequently. The liturgy of St.J.Chr. Is one of the most exalted works of art. This is one of the greatest pleasures in my life" (Tchaikovsky)

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"There is nothing like entering an ancient Church, in the semi darkness with the scent of incense…

CDE84333

Telemann,George

Music for Organ and Harpsicord

Gerald Gifford

Ouverture 1, Fantasia VIII,XII, Choral Preludes, Suite A maj, Drei Klein Fugen…26 tracks in all

Small Lammermuir organ, pipes entirely of wood, pedal blown. Half this programme is also played on a 1989 Philip Smart harpsichord.

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Italianate influences dominate these pieces written for church or chamber

HYP12

Various

The Essential Hyperion

Cannot begin to list them all.

28 of the most popular tracks, from Renaissance choir to modern organ and orchestral, cathedrals, soloists.

St.Paul's, Westminster Cath, Winchester, Christopher Herrick, London Festival Orch, English Northern Phil, The Sixteen, Corydon Singers..

£4.60

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"Britains brightest record label" is gently blowing it's own trumpet with this sampler

CDT5688112

Various

Unforgettable Choral Classics

22 different choirs

Can't think of anything with so much variety, 22 recordings from London Phil to Kings Singers, Halle, Birmingham Sym,

EMI quality assured, a great little extra, or present to please all tastes

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Elgar, Poulenc, Britten, Delius, Faure, Verdi, Gounod, Schubert, Haydn, Handel, Bach, Byrd, Nola..

PRCD189

Various

The Kings Trumpeter

Crispian Steele Perkins with Stephen Cleobury, Organ

Processional (Mathias), Concerto (Mozart, Voluntaries (Boyce), Concerto (Telemann), Ave Maria (Gounod)

Professor of Trumpet at Guildhall, Crispian is in great demand for concerts and film tracks.

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DCL703312

Various

Sacred Music (Simply the Best)

Victoria de Los Angeles, Kiri Te Kanawa, Janet Baker

2cds, 32 tracks from all the great classical composers

Wow! The title Simply The Best makes you cringe a bit, but it's true. 147 minutes of the worlds very finest singers in full flight. Do NOT pass this by as it must be the Value album of the year.

£7.00

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09026 614032

Verdi

Requiem

Chicago Symphony, Georg Solti

This was a classic recording which many insist has never been bettered

2CD's to play this expansive work of great solemnity, with a sympathetic input from world class soloists

£16.00

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Leontyne Price, Janet Baker, Veriano Luchetti, Jose van Dam

SB2K53252

Verdi

Messa da Requiem

Westminster Choir (USA) & Philadelphia Orchestra

Also Rossini's Stabat Mater by the New York Phil and Camerata Singers

Described as Opera in Church Vestments, too worldly, too lightweight, too agreeable, too entertaining.

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2CD set. Music critics of the 1830's were as pathetically unhelpful even then!. This is good Church music.

8550944-5

Verdi, Giusseppe

Verdi - Requiem

Hungarian State Opera

2 CD Set. 20 tracks of the Requiem, plus Quattro Pezzi Sacri 4 tracks

The Hungarian Opera, Chorus and Orchestra are among the very best in the world, making this long work very exciting indeed

£5.00

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05472 774232

Victoria, Tomas

Missa pro Defunctis

Montserrat Capella de Musica

Missa por Defunctis, Feria VI in parasceve

I never feel sorry for the fact that we put an end to Spain's Golden Age. They were brutes. Yet the Church rejoiced in the most exquisite sacred music, notably Victoria.

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Tomas Luis de Victoria 1548- 1611, is grouped with Palestrina and Lassus in style, so look for them.

08 9271 71

Vivaldi

Gloria, StabatMater

Stuttgart ProMusica Orchestra

Gloria for choir, soloists and Orchestra, Motette a canto for Soprano and strings, Stabat Mater for Alto and strings

Pieces often used by Choral Societies, but seldom recorded, presented on Vanguard's budget label to entice you

£5.50

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DCA854

Wood, Charles

Wood: St.Mark Passion

Gonvill & Caius College, Cambridge

The Passion of our Lord According to St.Mark (Wood), Since I believe in God the Father Almighty (Holloway)

"It is about time the bigger Parish Churches superceded Stainer's Crucifixion - or at least had an alternative" (Wood), and musically it is at least equal.

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"Magnificently performed" (Gramophone) and Good CD Guide Recommended