Deus 2022

Bach’s four Lutheran Masses feature almost no Lutheran material at all. Sometimes called "Missa brevis", musically they are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bach’s Cantatas. While often overshadowed by the more famous Mass in B minor, the beauty of these short Masses is that they represent Bach’s own choice of his finest Cantata movements.Despite their exquisite beauty, featuring splendid choruses and deeply moving arias, there are relatively few recordings of the Masses. This collection combines The Sixteen’s recordings into one collection. Just eight singers join The Sixteen’s orchestra to perform the Masses, allowing the beauty of the virtuosic vocal lines to be heard with absolute clarity.

"Amália Rodrigues - Amália Rodrigues Ao Vivo Café Luso 1955 - Olympia 1956 - Bobino 1960 (Restauración 2022)" is an album featuring live performances by the iconic Portuguese fado singer Amália Rodrigues. This album includes recordings from three different venues and years: Café Luso in 1955, Olympia in 1956, and Bobino in 1960. The 2022 restoration likely enhances the audio quality of these historical performances, bringing a fresh and refined listening experience to fans of Amália Rodrigues and fado music.

Francis Poulenc was the leading composer of Les Six, the French group devoted to turning music away from Impressionism, formality, and intellectualism. He wrote in a direct and tuneful manner, often juxtaposing the witty and ironic with the sentimental or melancholy. He heavily favored diatonic and modal textures over chromatic writing. His music also shows many elements of pandiatonicism, introduced around 1920 by Stravinsky, whose influence can be heard in some of Poulenc's compositions, such as the religious choral work Gloria. Poulenc is regarded as one of the most important 20th century composers of religious music, and in the realm of the French art song, he is also a major voice of his time.

Bach’s four Lutheran Masses feature almost no Lutheran material at all. Sometimes called "Missa brevis", musically they are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bach’s Cantatas. While often overshadowed by the more famous Mass in B minor, the beauty of these short Masses is that they represent Bach’s own choice of his finest Cantata movements.Despite their exquisite beauty, featuring splendid choruses and deeply moving arias, there are relatively few recordings of the Masses. This collection combines The Sixteen’s recordings into one collection. Just eight singers join The Sixteen’s orchestra to perform the Masses, allowing the beauty of the virtuosic vocal lines to be heard with absolute clarity.

When François Couperin published his Mass for the Convents in 1690, he had just turned 20, yet he had created the most exceptional collection of organ music to be written during the reign of Louis XIV.

A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us.

Here is the latest record from Klaus Schulze, who died on April 26, 2022 at the age of 74. A special disc in his vast discography (more than 50 albums) because it is the album composed immediately after the soundtrack of Dune version 2021. The ex-drummer of Tangerine Dream had released in 1979 an album entitled Dune, which was to accompany an adaptation project (aborted) by Alejandro Jodorowsky of Frank Herbert's novel. It is Toto (+ a title by the Eno brothers) who will inherit the soundtrack of the Lynch film in 1984. Three decades later, the announcement of Denis Villeneuve's remake plunges Schulze back into the books, of which he is a big fan – to the point of having titled one of his songs Frank Herbert on the 1978 album X. Hans Zimmer then had the excellent idea of ​​calling him to offer him to collaborate on the soundtrack of the film and thus close the loop.

Michel Corboz recorded Bach’s Mass in B Minor no less than four times! This is the original version, made available again for the first time since the LP release.

A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating existing examples of his sacred music (such as the famous Gloria) and other works given a different text to suit their new liturgical function (Sanctus and Agnus Dei), the ensemble Les Arts Florissants now offers us a compelling reconstruction of a solemn Mass which the “Red-Haired Priest” might have written… for just such an assembly of exceptional soloists!