Sacred Songs

Lyudmila Shkirtil - Kuzmin: Sacred Songs (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Lyudmila Shkirtil - Kuzmin: Sacred Songs (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 60:05 minutes | 2.07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The great twentieth-century Russian poet, Mikhail Alexeevich Kuzmin, was for much of his early life also passionately devoted to composition. Masterpieces of the vocal miniature, his Sacred Songs for voice and orchestra are settings of his own words based on studies of ancient Russian music. His incidental music for Masquerade is notable for a heartfelt Romance and a closing chorus which draws upon traditional Russian church music. The Society of Honoured Bell Ringers displays Mahlerian and Mozartian influences whilst greater harmonic complexity can be savoured in Kuzmin’s edgier music for Der deutsche Hinkemann.
Connie Smith - Sings Great Sacred Songs (1966/2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Connie Smith - Sings Great Sacred Songs (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 29:31 minutes | 1,22 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 29:31 minutes | 704 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs" is the fourth studio album by American country music artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in June 1966 on RCA Victor Records and was produced by Bob Ferguson. This album was Connie Smith's first Gospel recording and would set the trend for a series of Gospel releases she would issue in the next decade. Upon the album's release, "Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs" entered the Billboard Magazine charts, peaking at #19 on their Top Country Albums chart, becoming Smith's first LP not to reach the Top 10.
Tenebrae & Nigel Short - Bach & Macmillan: Motets and Sacred Songs (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tenebrae & Nigel Short - Bach & Macmillan: Motets and Sacred Songs (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 79:30 minutes | 1,27 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Signum Classics, Official Digital Download

Tenebrae bring their trademark passion and precision to this live performance of music by J. S. Bach and Sir James MacMillan, to be recorded live at Snape Maltings in May 2023. Renowned for their technical difficulty, Bach’s motets are pillars of the choral repertoire, requiring minute attention to detail as well as a full emotional range. Here, Tenebrae performs the three most well-known of the set, culminating in the joyful Singet dem Herrn. Like Bach, Sir James MacMillan has written much of his music for the church, and his settings of the Tenebrae responsories paint a vivid picture of the events of Holy Week. This album also features the premiere recording of I saw Eternity the other night, which MacMillan composed for Tenebrae in 2021 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the London Bach Society.
Solomon's Knot - Lost Majesty: Sacred Songs and Anthems by George Jeffreys (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48-192]

Solomon's Knot - Lost Majesty: Sacred Songs and Anthems by George Jeffreys (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48-192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 85:57 minutes | 2,23 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Prospero Classical, Official Digital Download

The recording of this composer’s extraordinary vocal music was made at Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire, where this one-time organist to Charles I lived and worked for the Hatton family. Thanks to the kind permission of English Heritage, and the generous donations of so many of our supporters, we have the pleasure of bringing the forgotten composer of the English 17th century back into the light. The double album features all of Jeffreys’ works for 4 and 5 voices with continuo, including many world-premiere recordings. It is released on the Prospero Classical label: streaming services on 8 December 2023 & in physical form in February 2024 worldwide.
The Sixteen & Harry Christophers - Royal Welcome Songs for King James II (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Sixteen & Harry Christophers - Royal Welcome Songs for King James II (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 63:48 minutes | 1.18 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Despite being written for the celebration of royal occasions, Purcells Royal Welcome Songs were penned during a time of immense disillusionment with the monarchy. Filled with humour as well as an ironic detachment from the politics of the time, Ye tuneful muses and Sound the trumpet fizz with the dramatic energy which characterised his later operas and mark a crucial turning point in Purcells career. This programme showcases the variety and diversity of Purcells writing, opening with the Chacony in G minor, which is among the great glories of music for strings, and including When on my sick bed I languish - an amazingly impassioned piece in which he bares his soul…quintessential Purcell!
Jugendchor Hochtaunus & Tristan Meister - Nightfall - Sacred Romantic Part Songs (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jugendchor Hochtaunus & Tristan Meister - Nightfall - Sacred Romantic Part Songs (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 51:12 minutes | 939 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The term Romanticism is understood differently by everyone, and the composers of that epoch chose different approaches when setting a particular subject to music. In sacred music, of course, specific names and pieces immediately come to mind: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Anton Bruckner, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Max Reger, and others. But the period between 1789 and 1914 saw the emergence of a large number of composers who gave this epoch its face, and not only in Germany. With the album "Nightfall - Sacred Romantic Parts Songs," the Jugendchor Hochtaunus under the direction of its artistic director Tristan Meister presents 18 works by European Romantic composers.
Roderick Williams, Martin Ford, Vasari Singers - Vaughan Williams, Elgar & Others: British Sacred Choral Works (2022) [24/192]

Roderick Williams, Martin Ford, Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse - Vaughan Williams, Elgar & Others: British Sacred Choral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 76:14 minutes | 2,48GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download

Featuring Vaughan Williams’ masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. Often setting the poetry of the King James Bible, the finely spun melodies and sensitivity to word-rhythm of composers from S. S. Wesley to Herbert Howells result in a uniquely British form of expression.
Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer & Ian Burnside - Ina Boyle: Songs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer & Ian Burnside - Ina Boyle: Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 77:21 minutes | 1,18 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Delphian Records, Official Digital Download

In lifelong seclusion in rural County Wicklow, Ina Boyle created a legacy of song – tender, often melancholy, illuminated by an exquisite sense for harmony. ‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition,’ wrote Vaughan Williams to his pupil. ‘The only thing to say is that it does come finally.’

Secret Garden - Sacred Night (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Nov. 14, 2020
Secret Garden - Sacred Night (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Secret Garden - Sacred Night (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 30:06 minutes | 634 MB
Classical | Label: Universal Music AS, Official Digital Download

This is the first time Secret Garden has made a Christmas album. The recording is a collaboration with Cathrine Iversen, who is the soloist on all songs. The Christmas songs are new, original songs by Rolf Løvland, except the 500-year old “I Know a Rose Tree”.
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Silvestrov: To Thee We Sing (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Silvestrov: To Thee We Sing (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 59:51 minutes | 968 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937) is an important contemporary voice in vocal music. In this new release Silvestrov's hauntingly beautiful vocal works are performed by the Latvian Radio Choir under their director Sigvards Klava.