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Christmas Edition [Bach] Magnificat [HMX2971782] Philippe Herreweghe & Collegium Vocale Gent
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/273MB | Small Front Cover | RS.com

‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.’ harmonia mundi Christmas edition: a special edition of ten CDs exclusively devoted to Christmas! With Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent, relive the festival of Christmas as it was celebrated in Leipzig under the direction of Kantor Johann Sebastian Bach. A highlight of the programme is the original version of the celebrated Magnificat, with four extra movements . . .

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Christmas Edition [Berlioz] L'Enfance du Christ [HMX2971632.33] Herreweghe & Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 2CD/329MB | Small Front Cover+Booklet | RS.com

The ‘petite sainteté’ of Hector Berlioz. harmonia mundi Christmas edition: a special edition of ten CDs exclusively devoted to Christmas! L’Enfance du Christ is not really an oratorio in the traditional sense of the term, yet the freshness and freedom with which it treats its subject make it one of the milestones of French Romanticism.

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Christmas Edition [Charpentier] Pastorale de Noël [HMX2971082] William Christie & Les Arts Florissants
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/270MB | Small Front Cover | RS.com

A pastoral Christmas. harmonia mundi Christmas edition: a special edition of ten CDs exclusively devoted to Christmas! With William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, relive Christmas Eve as it was celebrated in the France of Louis XIV. Charpentier’s charming Pastorale is a model of its kind.

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Christmas Edition [Corelli] Christmas Concerto [HMX2971407] Christensen, Banchini & Ensemble 415
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/381MB | Small cover Front | RS.com

A concerto ‘written for Christmas Eve’. harmonia mundi Christmas edition: a special edition of ten CDs exclusively devoted to Christmas! With Chiara Banchini, Jesper Christensen and Ensemble 415, rediscover the most famous of Corelli’s Roman concerti grossi, a joyous succession of pastoral scenes glorifying the Infant Jesus.

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Christmas Edition [Schütz] Weihnachtshistorie [HMX2971310] René Jacobs & Concerto Vocale
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/251MB | Small cover Front | RS.com

A German Christmas. harmonia mundi Christmas edition: a special edition of ten CDs exclusively devoted to Christmas! René Jacobs invites you to rediscover this Christmas History, probably the most popular work of Archicantor Schütz. In his twilight years, the greatest 17th-century German composer brilliantly combined Lutheran fervour with Italianate recitative.

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Curiosita [Bruhns] Intégrale D'orgue [HMX290799] Helmut Winter
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/337MB | Cover+Booklet | RS.com

Nikolaus Bruhns is one of the most impressive personalities of the North German organ music in the Baroque era. The four organ pieces which are here recorded represented a model for the young Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Curiosita [Cesti] Cantate [HMX2901018] Helga Müller-Molinari, René Jacobs & Concerto Vocale
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/259MB | Small Front Cover+Booklet | RS.com

Celebrated for his operatic production in Rome, Venice and Vienna, Cesti was also one of the most popular composer of vocal chamber music of the time. His cantatas, most of them ‘Canzoni amorose’, are made of suave vocality, and a rich expression of ardour and tenderness.

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Curiosita [Hassler] Missa Dixit Super Maria [HMX2901401] Philippe Herreweghe & Ensemble Vocal Europeen
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/299MB | Covers | RS.com

This is music out of the High Renaissance that should be a lot better known than it is.

Hassler was in the first generation of german composers to go down to Italy to study with the great masters there. He worked with Andrea Gabrieli in Venice, and went back north, where he made one sublime piece of music after another.

Hassler's setting of the Lutheran Mass has a certain ascetic quality that his lutheran audience would have approved of. At the same time, though, the Mass has this sensuous, intimate quality that's straight from Italy. In addition to a gentle, faint folk-like quality that's subtle enough that you can't quite put your finger on it, but gives the music a very direct quality you don't get with someone like Palestrina, or even in someone like Schutz.

On the strength of the Missa alone, Hassler was a major talent. The Motets on this recording are a bit too austere for my taste, but can be quite powerful.

The Missa is the deal here. Worth buying this recording for the Mass alone. The singing is flawless and stylish and expressive, as you'd expect from Herreweghe. The music of Hassler's Mass will take you away to a quieter, slower, sweeter world. Listen especially to the final Alleluja.. the other-worldly beauty Hassler brings to the music will take your breath away.

anonymous, Amazon.com

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Curiosita [Marini] Curiose & Moderne Inventioni [HMX2907175] Andrew Manze, Nigel North, John Toll
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/339MB | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

Marini epitomizes the Italian musical avant-garde of the first half of the seventeeth century. His numeral technical innovations as a violonist and his compositional sleights of hand are stressed in his Opus VIII titled Curiose & Moderne inventioni, as a clarion call to the revolutionary of spirit.

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Curiosita [Humfrey] Verse Anthems [HMX2907053] Nicholas McGegan & Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Classical | Ape (Single Tracks) dbPowerAMP | 1CD/295MB | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

Beginning as a choirboy in the Chapel Royal, Pelham Humfrey became rapidly London’s leading composer of church music. In his anthems, that constitute his most substantial legacy, Humfrey’s flexible and expressive adaptation of the Italian recitative style to English words is memorable.

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