Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Geistliche Chorwerke (CD)

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

CD

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

Item in stock

Current price: EUR 5.99

*Sonderpreis gültig solange Artikel am Lager

Shipping (United States of America): EUR 19.90

Aus tiefer Not; Ave Maria; Mitten wir im Leben sind; Hör mein Bitten; Warum toben die Heiden; Richte mich, Gott; Zum Abendsegen; Kyrie eleison; Heilig, heilig ist Gott, der Herr Zebaoth; Ehre sei Gott in der höhe; Verleih' uns Frieden; O for the wings of a dove

Artists:: St. John's College Choir Canbridge, Hill
Label:: Hyperion
Year of recording ca.:: 2005
Item number:: 9010541
UPC/EAN:: 0034571175584
Release date:: 23.6.2006

Lagerräumung

Overall sales rank: 7768
Sales rank in CDs: 3932

Product-Information:

Nowhere is Mendelssohn’s creative psyche more poignantly exposed than in his choral works. His desire to create music rewarding for performers and listeners alike is everywhere apparent, as is his always mellifluous and gracious vocal writing. Most endearing of all are Mendelssohn’s worlds of dream-like contentment, which cocoon the listener in a web of enchanted idealism. Hör mein Bitten (Hear my prayer) is the most popular of his small-scale choral works and was composed during Mendelssohn’s eighth visit to England in 1844, just before he began putting the finishing touches to his E minor Violin Concerto. The piece conjures up the feelings of peace and contentment in the flowing melodic lines of the inimitable ‘O for the wings of a dove’, which is also on this disc in its famous English adaptation. All of these sacred works are radiantly performed by The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge under David Hill in the first of a new series of recordings on the Hyperion label. The treble soloist is the stunning Quintin Beer who recently featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary about Allegri’s famous Miserere.

Rezensionen

'I doubt that you would find a better performance of Mendelssohn's sacred choral music than this. Finely executed with immaculate phrasing sensitively performed, it is clear that David Hill is leading the choir of St John's to even greater heights while it maintains its own highly individual sound. The whole production is worthy of the highest praise' (Choir & Organ)

'Outgoing, excitingly resonant, spirited singing' (Gramophone)

'This is one special record' (American Record Guide)

'The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, under David Hill, simply outsings all the current competition in sacred music by Mendelssohn' (Fanfare, USA)

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

Aus tiefer Not op. 23 Nr. 1 (für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Soli und Orgel) (Motette)

1 Choral: Aus tiefer Not
2 Fuge: Aus tiefer Not
3 Bei mir gilt nichts
4 Und ob es währt
5 Ob bei uns ist der Sünden viel

6 Ave Maria op. 23 Nr. 2 (für achtstimmigen gemischten Chor, Soli und Orgel) (Motette)
7 Mitten wir im Leben sind op. 23 Nr. 3 (für achtstimmigen gemischten Chor) (Motette)
8 Hör mein Bitten, Herr (Hymne)

Motetten op. 78 Nr. 1-3 (Auszug)

9 Nr. 1: Warum toben die Heiden
10 Nr. 2: Richte mich, Gott

11 Zum Abendsegen (für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor)
12 Kyrie eleison
13 Heilig, heilig ist Gott, der Herr Zebaoth
14 Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
15 Verleih' uns Frieden
16 O for the wings of a dove

More from Felix Mendelsso...

Show all

Mehr von Hyperion

Zum Labelshop

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Geistliche Chorwerke on CD

Geistliche Chorwerke

The item Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): Geistliche Chorwerke has been placed in the cart.