Amazing pieces of classical music - 40Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's 'Missarum liber secundus', Missa No. 7 under the title of 'Missa Papae Marcelli': Kyrie (composed in 1562) in the 1962 performance by the Regensburger Domchor under the direction of Theobald Schrems. The mass from... See More » (3)
I know you love the song but not the singer. I know you've got me wrapped around your finger...I know you want the sin without the sinner I know I know (1)
Amazing pieces of classical music - 35'Ad completorium in nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi' (At the Compline of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ): V: Custodi nos, Domine (Save us, Lord), Antiphona "Salva Nos" (Antiphon "Save us") and Canticum Simeonis "Nunc Dimittis" (Simeon's... See More » (1)
Amazing pieces of classical music - 25Maurice Duruflé's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op. 10, No. 1 "Ubi caritas (et amor)" for a cappella polyphony, specifically four mixed voices (1960). The words mean "Where charity and love are, God is there". "Ubi caritas et amor" is a... See More » (1)
Amazing pieces of classical music - 17"Nymphes des bois", also known as "La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem", is a lament composed by the great Josquin des Prez to commemorate the death of his predecessor Johannes Ockeghem. Here it's performed by the Chanteurs de Saint-Eustache under... See More » (1)
Amazing pieces of classical music - 16And, of course, there's Handel's Messiah (HWV 56), an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 of which the text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter. This marvel of a work was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742... See More » (1)
Amazing pieces of classical music - 12Let me now mentioned a religious choral masterwork that a non-church going Russian once composed before the Bolsjevic takeover of his country, one of his most beloved creations and an absolute true indication of what it means to be Russian. This... See More » (1)
Amazing pieces of classical music - 4When I am Laid in Earth from Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Janet Baker as Dido was recorded in 1962. She herself was surprised when Anthony Lewis asked her to sing the role the year before. However, it remains a performance that demonstrates that... See More » (1)
