Choral Music reccomendations.

[marty]

Gramophone's choral recording of the year for 2016

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Gramophone's choral recording of the year for 2016
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Ah, yes, but if it is Hyperion, it ain't multichannel. Fortunatly, we also have:

and

 

[GaryProtein]

Thank you everyone who posted.

Now I have my work cut out to see which of these I should buy.

 

[carolkoh]

if you want to start "Light" I suggest the small groups. Chanticleer, King's Singers, Anonymous 4, Tapestry, etc.

The former two are male voices, the latter two are female voices. For mixed voice choirs Alamire, Boston Camerata, Monteverdi Choir

Why yes, I do like Early Music, but most of the groups also do contemporary music.

 

[Kefas]

[video]http://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/video/mozart-requiem-cd-introduction/[/video]

I do not know if this is what your looking for but this is worthwhile.

 

[Hipper]

Tomas Thallis - Spem in Alium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ

Not sure if this has the original planned 40 singers but some CDs do. The effect is stunning.

Tomas Luis de Victoria and Palestrina offer similar works.

Whilst they are all sacred works they are in Latin and unintelligible to me so just come across as a fabulous use of voices.

The Harry Christophers Sixteen also record interesting material.

 

[LL21]

 

[bonzo75]

Classical aside, we saw the Aladdin music this week, fantastic amplified jazz, vocals, and chorals. Bass, slam, and dynamics to test any system, with chorals. Hope they make good recordings of the show

 

[Migo]

[video]http://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/video/mozart-requiem-cd-introduction/[/video]

I do not know if this is what your looking for but this is worthwhile.

That is indeed a very beautiful version of the requiem.

 

[Empirical Audio]

Eric Whitacre - "Sleep":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng

Best choral piece I have ever heard. Available on CD I believe, maybe SACD too.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

 

[GSOphile]

Handel, Dettingen Te Deum & Dittingen Anthem; Choir of Westminster Abbey, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, Simon Preston (Archiv CD)

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

This is all excellent and cannot believe its been a year.
Kind of gave up when I thought my kit could not resolve the material.
Since all the recent kit improvements, its time to get back into it.
The room has been torn apart, painted and reduced the clutter some more so to speak.
There will be some cabinetry showing up this weekend to hold the vinyl. Once in place, the journey for the right position for the Maggies will start all over again, then the Choral discovery will resume.
Leaning towards material that is chantish(my made up word)/medative/haunting multi layered, do not know enough about it to know what to call it!
This is awesome guys/gals thanks.

 

[mullard88]

My recommendation:

Now the Green Blade Riseth
Kornet har sin vila

 

[andolink]

You might try these superb examples of Renaissance vocal music by Josquin des Prez; the first is sacred, the second is secular:

 

[853guy]

Personal faves:

Krenek Lamentatio Jeremiæ Prophetæ; RIAS Kammerchor; Creed (Harmonia Mundi)




Ligeti A Capella Choral Works; London Sinfonietta Voices; Edwards (Sony)




Penderecki Stabat Mater; Tapiola Chamber Choir; Kuivanen (Finlandia)




Rachmaninov The Vespers; Capella De Saint-Pétersbourg; Tchernouchenko (Le Chante Du Monde)

 

[gian60]