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The most exciting Bach discovery in 70 years! Found in a box of miscellaneous
documents saved by chance from the fire that destroyed the Anna Amalia Library
in Weimar in June of this year, the first complete vocal work of J.S. Bach to
be discovered since 1935, an aria for soprano and strings celebrating the birthday
of Wilhelm Ernst, Prince of Saxony, is here given its premiere CD release, coupled
with a selection of as yet unreleased Cantata arias and choruses recorded on
the 2000 Bach Cantata Pilgrimage.
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SDG 114 (1 cd) contains:
Alles mit Gott BWV 1127
Soloist: Elin Manahan Thomas
Arias and Choruses from Cantatas:
BWV 71 / 78 / 151 / 155 / 159 / 182 / 190
Soloists: Joanne Lunn | Malin Hartelius | Gillian Keith
Nathalie Stutzmann | Robin Tyson
James Gilchrist | Peter Harvey
Monteverdi Choir | English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner
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SDG ON THE NIGHT
Monteverdi Productions is launching a new initiative, SDG On the
Night, with the first of what we hope will become a regular series of live,
unedited recordings made at MCO concerts and released on the night! On 9th February
we recorded the first half of our concert at Cadogan Hall, London, two Mozart
symphonies. During the second half the CDs were pressed so that the audience
would be able to take home a tangible memento of what was a very special evening.
If you did not manage to attend the concert, you can still obtain this CD, which
is a strictly limited edition of 3,000 copies: it is not available in any shops
but is on sale through our website while stocks last.
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SDG 501 - SDG On the Night - 9th February 2006 (1 cd) contains:
W. A. Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E flat Major, K. 543
Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter"
(recorded live: Cadogan Hall, London 9th February 2006)
English Baroque Soloists | Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO
In 2004, its fortieth anniversary year, the Monteverdi Choir under the direction
of Sir John Eliot Gardiner undertook a pilgrimage in song through France and
Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, performing in the great abbeys and
cathedrals along the way. The choir’s pilgrimage programmes focussed on the
sacred polyphony of the Iberian peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, these works being set in a broader European context through the inclusion
of pieces by composers who worked outside Spain and Portugal, but whose music
was probably known there. This recording, the second of two made on the choir’s
return to London, offers a chance to share their experience of living inside
the music along El camino de Santiago.
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SDG 701 (1 cd) contains:
Music from the twelfth-century Codex Calixtinus:
Dum pater familias
Congaudeant Catholici
Alma perpetui
Psallat chorus celestium
O Venerande Apostoli
O lux et decus Hispaniae
from the Llibre Vermell:
O virgo splendens
and by composers Tomás Luis de Victoria:
Missa O Quam Gloriosum
Motet O Quam Gloriosum
Vadam et Circuibo
Jacobus Clemens non Papa:
O Maria vernans rosa
Sanctus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:
Jesu Rex admirabilis
Guillaume Dufay:
Rite majorem
Cristobal Morales:
Parce mihi Domine
Orlande de Lassus:
Iustorum animae
and Jean Mouton:
Nesciens mater
(recorded: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London - May 2005)
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner
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