For our fourth installment, six choral masterpieces:
Jan Dismas Zelenka: “Missa Divi Xaverii”
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks conducting
(recorded 2014, Utrecht, Netherlands):
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Stravinsky: “Symphony of Psalms”
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Peter Dijkstra conducting
(recorded 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands):
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Brahms: “Ein deutsches Requiem” (“A German Requiem”)
Iwona Sobotka, soprano
Andrè Schuen, baritone
MDR Radio Chorus
MDR Symphony Orchestra
Risto Joost conducting
(recorded 2017, Dresden):
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Pēteris Vasks: “Dona nobis pacem”
Le Choeur l’Art Neuf & orchestra
Pierre Barrette conducting
(recorded 2017, Montreal):
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Haydn: “Missa in tempore belli” (“Mass in Time of War”)
Yeree Suh, soprano
Ulrike Mayer, alto
Uwe Gottswinter, tenor
Christof Hartkopf, bass
Regensburger Domspatzen
L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Roland Büchner conducting
(recorded 2013, Regensburg, Germany):
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J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
Julia Doyle & Hana Blažíková, sopranos
Maarten Engeltjes, alto
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Christian Immler, bass
Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven conducting
(recorded 2014, Naarden, Netherlands):
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