classical music: ascension

classical music: ascension

classical music:

Ascension

Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Karl Richter, ...

Archiv Prod Import, 1993

Bach in the Bach Tradition
I believe I owe it to the period performance movement for making me feel like I am committing a sin when I don't listen to Gardiner's or Hogwood's Bach (or Handel, or any Baroque composer for that matter). If, say, I put in Shaw's recording of the B minor mass, or most ...

Heigh-Ho! Mozart

Donald Fraser, Dennis Keene, ...

Delos Records, 1995

Uncle Walt would be quite honored!
For many a baby boomer, Walt Disney meant animation. But, besides that, music played an important part in the telling of the story. So interested in music was the animator that he fashioned one of his greatest triumphs ("Fantasia") on the works of the great masters. ...

Bach: Magnificat; Easter Oratorio

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Parrott, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

One-Voice-Per-Part At It's Best
I've never been a fan of Bach's works being performed One-Voice-Per-Part, until I listened to this recording. There is much to be praised about this recording. While I'd much prefer to hear the soprano and alto lines sung by trebles and boy altos or countertenors, the ...

Biber: The Mystery Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Tragicomedia, ...

Virgin / Angel Records, 2002

Hauntingly beautiful Baroque fare
I own three versions of Biber's Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas, and a fourth recording (by Manze) of other Biber sonatas along with the famous passacaglia that concludes the set. All of the versions (the other two being by Rheinhard Goebel on Archiv and Suzanne Lautenbacher ...

Gregorian Chants for All Seasons
Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Cesar Cui, ...

Vox (Classical), 1992

Women in Chant: Recordare: Remembering the Mysteries in the Life of Jesus, Son of Mary

The Choir of Benedictine Nuns at the Abbey of Regina Laudis

Sounds True Direct, 2001

Excellent recording of Gregorian Chants
I bought this recording a few weeks ago and it has quickly become a favourite. While Gregorian Chant has become popular, especially with the recordings of Santo Domingo de Silos, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that Gregorian Chant is sung prayer. In hearing the ...

Messiaen: L'Ascension
Olivier Messiaen, Myung-Whun Chung, ...

Deutsche Gram France, 2006

Collection Du Millenaire.

Heigh-Ho! Mozart: Favorite Disney Tunes In The Style Of Great Classical Composers

Carol Rosenberger, Dennis Keene, ...

Delos Records, 1995

Just amazing
This album I got at Disneyland Paris. I saw it and just knew that I had to have it. It's classic disney tunes in the style of the great composers. And it really do remind of them. As a lover of classic music and disney music, this couldn't be a better album.

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony; L'ascension

Olivier Messiaen, Antoni Wit, ...

Naxos, 2000

Modern French Music
Olivier Messiaen, the great French modern composer, is here represented by two of his most famous compositions: the early four meditations on L'Ascension and, a composition written after he was released from a German prison camp, the Turangalila-Symphonie, a work of ...

Aria 3: Metamorphosis

Aria, Paul Schwartz

Koch Records, 2004

Soul Satisfying
I love this CD. It's especially wonderful when it's rainy outside and I'm curled up by the fire inside. My son who is 16, blind and autistic loves it and plays it over and over. I think he taps into the immediate relaxation and beautiful blend of classical with ...

Beyond Chant: Mysteries Of The Renaissance

Anonymous, Adrian Batten, ...

Delos Records, 1994

Excellent introduction to Renaissance choral music.
This was my first CD of sacred Renaissance choral music, as it undoubtably has been for a great many people. It offers the best possible introduction to the genre for 2 main reasons: 1. No other CD of Renaissance choral music contains such a varied cross-section of ...

Olivier Messiaen: Complete Organ Works

Olivier Latry

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

The sting of awakening.
I must confess that I've been lukewarm about Messiaen. He was often pictured in the 1970's in Hawaiian shirts and suspenders jacking his pants up to his man-boobs and this tacky image carries over all too well to some of his later music, where the extended durations ...

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Rosenkranz-Sonaten (Rosary Sonatas, AKA Mystery Sonatas) - Musica Antiqua Köln

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Reinhard Goebel, ...

Universal Int'l, 1991

Beautiful compositions, performance and sound
Biber's so-called "Mystery Sonatas" are among the most alluring, meditative, virtuostic and amazingly beautiful compositions ever written for the violin - which this fine recording captures most vividly. Three aspects of this recording stand out as superb and make ...

Decca Recordings, 1965-1972 (Limited Edition)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, ...

Decca, 2003

Stupendous Stokowski
This five disc box set featuring the Decca Recordings (1965-72) of conductor Leopold Stokowski is among the latest batch of releases in the limited edition "Original Masters" series. While parts of this particular collection have been available on CD in the past (in ...

Bach: Ascension Cantatas
Klaus Mertens, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Challenge Classics, 2008

A perfect introduction to Koopman's impressive Complete Cantata Cycle as well as a splendid sixth volume in the small series of single CD compilations from the cycle, giving new shine to the term "highlights."