Main Performer: Bruce Boyce (Baritone); Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto (Female alto)); Norman Walker (Bass); Sir Peter Pears (Tenor); Suzanne Danco (Soprano)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s): BBC Chorus; (Boyd) Neel Orchestra; New Symphony Orchestra
Date of Release: 06/02/2006
Label / Distributor: Ariadne / Coda Distribution Ltd
Pieces in Set: 2
Running Time: 2 hours 12 minutes
Genre(s): Vocal and choral
Stereo: Mono
SPAR Code: ADD
EAN: 748871500020
Work 1
Work Title: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Excerpt(s): 1. KYRIE - Kyrie eleison 2. Christe eleison 3. Kyrie eleison 4. GLORIA - Gloria in excelsis 5. Laudamus te 6. Gratias agimus tibi 7. Dominus Deus 8. Qui tollis peccata mundi 9. Qui sedes 10. Quoniam tu solus 11. Cum sancto spiritu 12. CREDO (Symbolum Nicenum) - Credo 13. Credo 14. Et in unum Dominum 15. Et incarnatus est 16. Crucifixus 17. Et resurrexit 18. Et in spiritum sanctum 19. Confiteor 20. Et expecto 21. SANCTUS - Sanctus 22. Hosanna 23. Benedictus 24. AGNUS DEI - Agnus Dei 25. Dona nobis pacem.
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: assembled c1747-9
Conductor: George Enescu
Orchestra / Ensemble: BBC Chorus
Orchestra / Ensemble: (Boyd) Neel Orchestra
Main Performer: Bruce Boyce (Baritone), Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto (Female alto)), Norman Walker (Bass), Sir Peter Pears (Tenor), Suzanne Danco (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): Bruce Boyce, Kathleen Ferrier, Norman Walker, Sir Peter Pears, Suzanne Danco
Work 2
Work Title: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Excerpt(s): 1. Erbarme dich
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1727
Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
Orchestra / Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra
Main Performer: Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto (Female alto)), Malcolm Sargent (Narrator)
Opera Part(s): Kathleen Ferrier, Malcolm Sargent
Work 3
Work Title: Cantata No. 11, 'Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen', BWV11
Excerpt(s): 1. Aria: Ach, bleibe doch, mein liebstes Leben (A)
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1724
Conductor: Reginald Jacques
Orchestra / Ensemble: Jacques Orchestra
Main Performer: Kathleen Ferrier (Contralto (Female alto))
Advantages: Wonderful transcriptions of JS Bach's majestic music; sensitive, tender, vivacious, effortless and fluid playing. Disadvantages: Nil.
...with such vivacity, tenderness and sensitivity as these are – then I turn into a harmless, non-homicidal and blissfully happy Bachmaniac.
For a glimpse of pure trumpet heaven, there’s the lively, minor-key Badinerie, lifted from the Orchestral Suite No. 2 (originally written for solo flute and strings), on which Ms Balsom plays a solo piccolo trumpet (the highest-pitched one). And if you’re seeking some lovely pathos to enjoy, there’s the Agnus Dei from the Mass in Bminor. Here the trumpet’s mournfulness is no less affecting than the original version with voice, supplemented as it is with textural harmonic counterpoint from the violin, organ and viola da gamba.
But really, mere words still fail me in this attempt to capture the all-around excellence of this disc. Go and listen to the music for yourself. Following are a few...
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Advantages: A definite easy listen Disadvantages: Maybe too easy
...- Romance
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar - Chanson de matin
Beethoven - Pastoral Symphony
CD 2
Mozart - 'Elvira Madigan' Piano Concerto
JS Bach - Sheep may safely graze
JS Bach - Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor
Handel - Water Music
Vivaldi - Concerto for lute and two violins
JS Bach - Aria
Grieg - Piano Concerto
JS Bach - Double Violin Concerto
Monteverdi - Beatus vir
Chopin - Etude in E 'Tristesse'
Elgar - Serenade in E minor
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 2
Barber - Adagio for String
Faure - In paradisum - Schubert - String Quintet
Faure - Berceuse
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classical tunes! Review ofThe Best Classical Album in the World ... Ever!by
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Advantages: everything Disadvantages: nothing
...A cracking cd if you loooovvvveeeee clasical sounds like me I can't get enough!
Johann Pachelbel
Canon in D major for strings & continuo
Johann Sebastian BachAria (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988)
Toccata und Fuge D minor, BWV565
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 BWV 1048: Allegro
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio (Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K. 622)
Andante (Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467)
Lacrimosa (Requiem in D minor, K. 626)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Allegretto (Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral")
Adagio sostenuto (Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No. 2 -"Moonlight")
Allegro con brio (Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67)
Choral: Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125)
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings Op.11
Sergei V. Rachmaninov
Adagio...
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not helpful 28.11.2005
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