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SERGEI RACHMANINOV - Vespri // Vespers, op. 37

Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 

Passione secondo Matteo // Matthäuspassion // St. Matthews Passion

Peter Pears, Nicolai Gedda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, John Carol Case, Otokar Kraus, Heather Harper, Helen Watts

Choir / Boys of the Hampstead Parish Church Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra

Otto Klemperer

Registrazione del 1961

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Missa Solemnis op. 123 
• Triple Concerto op. 56
• Ouverture Coriolan

Elisabeth Rethberg, Marion Telva, Giovanni Martinella, Ezio Pinza
New York Schola Cantorum, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini

Registrazioni del 1935 (Missa), 1936 (Coriolan) e 1942 (Concerto). 

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 • St Nicolas, Op. 42

Katherine Watson, Zoë Brown, Sally Pryce, Allan Clayton

Trinity College Choir Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, Holst Singers & Temple Church Choristers
Stephen Layton

"Layton's flowing speeds underline the dramatic sequence of the carols...All the solo performances are impeccably shaped and harpist Sally Pryce makes light work of the fiendish accompaniments...Clayton makes the role of Nicolas entirely his own. What a glorious voice!...This is a beautiful and deeply affecting recording."

FRANK MARTIN

• Mass for double choir
• Passacaille for organ 

ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI

• Messa da Requiem
• De profundis

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell

***

Classic CD
"For connoisseurs of choral music this is an essential buy. Outstanding performances of two rarely heard 20th-century masterpieces."

"Magnificent."

SERGEI RACHMANINOV

Vespers op. 37 

Johannes-Damascenus-Chor Essen, Chor des päpstlichen Russischen Kollegs
P. Ludwig Pichler