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Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford - A Lullaby Carol- Christmas at Christ Church (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford - A Lullaby Carol- Christmas at Christ Church (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:07:30 minutes | 1.14 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The resounding refrains of The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford reverberate throughout A Lullaby Carol: Christmas from Christ Church, a rich tapestry of traditional and contemporary works celebrating the choir's musical heritage, particularly from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford - A Lullaby Carol- Christmas at Christ Church (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford - A Lullaby Carol- Christmas at Christ Church (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:07:30 minutes | 1.14 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The resounding refrains of The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford reverberate throughout A Lullaby Carol: Christmas from Christ Church, a rich tapestry of traditional and contemporary works celebrating the choir's musical heritage, particularly from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Edward Higginbottom, The Choir of New College Oxford - Eustache du Caurroy: Requiem Mass & Motets (2002)

Edward Higginbottom, The Choir of New College Oxford - Eustache du Caurroy: Requiem Mass & Motets (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 66:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CRD Records | # CRD 3518 | Recorded: 1996

Eustache du Caurroy is one of the unacknowledged masters of French Renaissaice polyphony whose works are rarely performed, due in part to the general lack of accessible or reliable editions. The majority of his compositions were for liturgical use - probably at the French Royal Court during the reigns of the successive monarchs Charles IX, Henri III and Henri IV. The motets recorded here illustrate two contrasting styles of vocal writing: imitative polyphony and 'musique mesurée', the former equating to the familiar, pan-European idiom of Palestrina and his later Renaissance contemporaries, the latter outlining protracted chord-against chord movement reflecting the natural stress-patterns of the words. The Missa pro Defunctis, the major work on this disc, was first performed at the funeral of Henri IV and remained for many years the official requiem sung at funerals of French monarchs.
Jeremy Summerly, Oxford Camerata - Heinrich Schütz: The Christmas Story (1996)

Jeremy Summerly, Oxford Camerata - Heinrich Schütz: The Christmas Story (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 217 Mb | Total time: 55:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553514 | Recorded: 1995

Schutz’s Weinachtshistorie is a magnificent Christmas counterpart to the Passion, and one can perhaps understand that during his lifetime the composer would only permit musicians of a certain standard to perform it in its entirety. The present recording is in most respects excellent. The choir are on very good form, bright, perfectly tuned (listen to Intermedium II, “The Multitude”, for example, or the vigorous characterization of the Magi in Intermedium IV), the instrumental contributions are discreet but vigorous when necessary, and the soloists all good. Paul Agnew is, I feel, a little matter of fact at the beginning, but seems to warm up as the work progresses (always a dangerous thing to say since, for all one knows, the work may have been recorded entirely in reverse order, but that is the impression given).
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Steven Grahl & Benjamin Sheen - A Lullaby Carol: Christmas at Christ Church (2024)

Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Steven Grahl & Benjamin Sheen - A Lullaby Carol: Christmas at Christ Church (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:07:17 | 273 Mb
Genre: Classical

The resounding refrains of The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford reverberate throughout A Lullaby Carol: Christmas from Christ Church, a rich tapestry of traditional and contemporary works celebrating the choir's musical heritage, particularly from the 20th and 21st centuries. Highlights include the melodically and rhythmically rich "Make we joy now in this fest" and "All this time", by Sir William Walton, one of Christ Church's most famous alumni; John Rutter's modern masterpiece "Hymn to the Creator of Light" and Simon Preston's timeless "There is no rose". There are also two settings by former Organists of Christ Church: Stephen Darlington's arrangement of "Silent Night", and his successor Steven Grahl's setting of "O nata lux".
Owen Rees, The Choir of the Queen’s College Oxford - Caeli Porta: 17th-Century sacred music from Lisbon & Granada (2008)

Owen Rees, The Choir of the Queen’s College Oxford - Caeli Porta: 17th-Century sacred music from Lisbon & Granada (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 60:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Guild | GMCD7323 | Recorded: 2007, 2008

Portuguese music enjoyed its most spectacular flowering in the early seventeenth century. Many of the greatest composers were gathered in the capital Lisbon, and this was a period when many Portuguese musicians also made their careers in Spain, which was then linked to Portugal politically. This recording presents masterpieces of Portuguese polyphony from Lisbon and Granada brought to light by the choir’s director, Owen Rees. The Lisbon composers represented are Duarte Lobo (chapelmaster at the Cathedral), Pedro de Cristo (chapelmaster at the Monastery of São Vicente), and Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (organist at the Royal Chapel).
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Steven Grahl & Benjamin Sheen - A Lullaby Carol: Christmas at Christ Church (2024)

Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Steven Grahl & Benjamin Sheen - A Lullaby Carol: Christmas at Christ Church (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:07:17 | 273 Mb
Genre: Classical

The resounding refrains of The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford reverberate throughout A Lullaby Carol: Christmas from Christ Church, a rich tapestry of traditional and contemporary works celebrating the choir's musical heritage, particularly from the 20th and 21st centuries. Highlights include the melodically and rhythmically rich "Make we joy now in this fest" and "All this time", by Sir William Walton, one of Christ Church's most famous alumni; John Rutter's modern masterpiece "Hymn to the Creator of Light" and Simon Preston's timeless "There is no rose". There are also two settings by former Organists of Christ Church: Stephen Darlington's arrangement of "Silent Night", and his successor Steven Grahl's setting of "O nata lux".
VA - Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe (2014)

VA - Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe (2014)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.6 GB
12:14:44 | Classical, Early, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque | Label: Naxos

This is a journey through the music world of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It ends with those composers and those pieces of music that, around 1600, were shaping the sound that we call 'baroque'. Presented chronologically, this extensive collection of works covers sacred and secular music from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England, Flanders, Portugal and The Netherlands, from a wide range of composers. Includes a comprehensive 76 page booklet charting the history and development of the music included in these specially chosen recordings. An ideal introduction and guide to this fascinating music.
VA - Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe (2014)

VA - Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe (2014)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.6 GB
12:14:44 | Classical, Early, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque | Label: Naxos

This is a journey through the music world of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It ends with those composers and those pieces of music that, around 1600, were shaping the sound that we call 'baroque'. Presented chronologically, this extensive collection of works covers sacred and secular music from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England, Flanders, Portugal and The Netherlands, from a wide range of composers. Includes a comprehensive 76 page booklet charting the history and development of the music included in these specially chosen recordings. An ideal introduction and guide to this fascinating music.
Theatre of Voices: The Age of Cathedrals (Music from the Magnus Liber Organi)

Theatre of Voices: The Age of Cathedrals (Music from the Magnus Liber Organi)
EAC (APE & CUE) | Classical | 1 CD / 282 MB
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France witnessed an unprecedented flowering of learning, art, and music in the twelfth century. Most of this "Renaissance" occurred within the Church all, within the great Gothic cathedrals that sprang up throughout France from the 1130s on. The cathedral was the bishop's church, the seat of ecclesiastical power and administration. Equally important, it was the center of religious life, and above all of the celebration of the liturgy, with elaborate ceremonial and festive music. Building on traditions that had long been fostered in the monasteries, the cathedral musicians drew inspiration from the brilliant and spectacular spaces that the new cathedral buildings provided, producing monophonic and polyphonic lyrical masterpieces of unprecedented dimensions, subtlery, and power. This recording explores the extraordinary musical achievements fostered by the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and its antecedents in the great abbey of St. Martial in Limoges.