Harmonia Mundi - Sacred Music 30 CDs

A quintessential selection of the best western sacred music through the ages and continents that will please one and all, from an inquisitive novice to the discerning connoisseur. 90 complete works of essential repertoire [on 30 CDs]. Harmonia Mundi offers you the finest selection of 111 cornerstone works of western sacred music. From the earliest Christian chants to Bernstein's mass, from the gems of the Baroque to beloved Lutheran hymns, this vital collection has been created by today's finest artists at the peak of their talents. harmonia mundi is offering it in this extremely Limited Box Edition. A gift beyond compare. ---arkivmusic.com

CD 1: 	Ambrosian, old roman, beneventan & mozarabic repertoires Enseble Organum, Marcel Peres

CD 2: 	Gregorian Requiem Deller Consort, Alfred Deller / Mass from the year 1000 (Codex calixtinus) Anonymous 4 / Cistercian Chant Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres Magnus Liber OrganiTheatre of Voices, Paul Hillier

CD 3: 	12th-Century Polyphony in AquitaineHockets from the Bamberg Manusript Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier / 12th-century Marian Songs / An English Ladymass Anonymous 4 / Graduel d'Alienor de BretagneEnsemble Organum, Marcel Peres Ecole de Notre Dame

CD 4: 	Ecole de Notre Dame Virgo flagellatur, Mors Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier / Campanis cum cymbalis, Wordles blisse have good day, Valde mane diluculo, Ovet mundus laetabundus The Hilliard Ensemble / DUFAY Ave Regina coelorum Orlando Consort / DUNSTABLE Salve scema sanctitatis, Salve salus servulorum, Cantat celi agmina Orlando Consort / PLUMMER Anna Mater Matris Christi The Hillard Ensemble / JOSQUIN DESPREZ Salve Regina La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe / JANEQUIN Congrati suntEnsemble Clement Janequin / BYRD Peccantem me quotidie Deller Consort, Mark Deller / GESAULDO Tribulationem et dolorem, Ecce quomodo moritur justus Ensemble Vocal Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe / HASSLER Ad Dominum Ensemble Vocal Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe

CD 5: 	MACHAUT Messe de Notre DameEstonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier / JOSQUIN DESPEREZ Missa Pange lingua Ensemble Clement Janequin / JANEQUIN Messe "La Bataille" Ensemble Clement Janequin

CD 6: 	LASSUS Missa "Tous les regretz"Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel / PALESTRINA Missa Viri Galilaei dir. Philippe Herreweghe / BYRD Mass for 4 Voices Pro Aste Singers, Paul Hillier

CD 7: 	DUMONT Memorare LULLY Dies irae La Chapelle Royale, Philippe HerrewegheSuper flumina BabilonisTe Deum LULLY Ave CoeliMiserator et misericors Les Arts Florissants, William Christie DELALANDE DELALANDE CHARPENTER

CD 8: 	MASSAINO Feria V. In coena Domini LASSUS Feria sexta in Parasceve Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel / CHARPENTER Seconde Lecon de Tenebres du Mercredy Sainct COUPERIN Troisieme Lecon de TenebresConcerto Vocale, Rene JacobsHieremie prophetae Lamentationes RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed KRENEK

CD 9-10: 	MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine dir. Philippe Herreweghe / ROVETTA Vespro solenne Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghandel

CD 11-12: 	A. SCARLATTI Cain overo Il primo omicidio dir. Rene Jacobs

CD 13-14: 	HANDEL Messiah Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

CD 15-16: 	MENDELSSOHN Paulus dir. Philippe Herreweghe
CD 17: 	SERENITY Tant que vivrayEstans assis aux rives aquatiques Ensemble Clement Janequin / TALLIS 9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's PsalterStile Antico / PURCELL Remember not, Lord SCHUTZ Concert in Form einer teutschen Begrabnis dir. Philippe Herrweghe / BRUHNS Hemmt eure Tranenflut J.S. BACH Missa brevis in F-dur Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghandel ESTOCART

CD 18-19: 	J.S. BACH Weihnachts Oratoriumdir. Rene Jacobs

CD 20-21: 	PERGOLESI Stabat Mater Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs BOCCHERINI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Stabat Mater Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini / ROSSINI Stabat MaterRIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed

CD 22-24: 	MOZART Requiem BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem FAURE Requiem dir. Philippe Herrweghe / DURUFLE Requiem op. 9 The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Bill Ives

CD 25-28: 	BEETHOVEN Missa SolemnisMotets dir. Philippe Herrweghe / MENDELSSOHN Psalms & Motets POULENC Motets, Messe en Sol majeur RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed / BERNSTEIN Mass DSO Berlin, Kent Nagano BRUCKNER

CD 29: 	Orthodox Church MusicAll-Night VigilEstonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier RACHMANINOV

Performer: 
Andreas Scholl,  Agnès Mellon,  Kenneth Weiss,  Dorothea Röschmann,  Werner Güra, 
Klaus Häger,  Sandrine Piau,  Mark Padmore,  Barbara Schlick, 
Nathan Berg,  Peter Kooy,  David Thomas,  Guillemette Laurens, 
William Kendall,  Vincent Darras,  Howard Crook,  Gerard O'Byrne, 
Antonio Abete,  Bernarda Fink,  Graciela Oddone,  Richard Croft, 
René Jacobs,  Melanie Diener,  Annette Markert,  Matthias Goerne, 
James Taylor,  Jerry Hadley,  Sigurd Brauns,  Tobias Lehmann, 
Rosa Mannion,  Birgit Remmert,  Cornelius Hauptmann,  Alessandro Moccia, 
Sibylla Rubens,  Ian Bostridge,  Hanno Müller-Brachmann,  Christiane Oelze, 
Gerald Finley,  Richard Pinel,  Peter Harvey,  Magid El-Bushra, 
Mark Chaundy,  Martin Ford,  Sebastian Hennig,  Bruce Fowler, 
Krassimira Stoyanova,  Petra Lang,  Daniel Borowski,  Iris Oja, 
Mati Turi,  Stephanie Moller,  Vladimir Miller,  Toomas Tohert, 
Uku Joller,  Risto Joost,  Tiit Kogermann,  Allan Vurma, 
Kaia Galina Urb,  Aarne Talvik,  Juta Roopalu-Malk,  Vilve Hepner, 
Külli Erimäe,  Henri Ledroit,  Ulrich Studer


Conductor:  
Alfred Deller,  William Christie,  Konrad Junghänel,  Chiara Banchini,  Paul Hillier, 
Paul van Nevel,  Philippe Herreweghe,  René Jacobs,  Dominique Visse, 
Kent Nagano,  Bill Grayston Ives,  Marcus Creed

Orchestra/Ensemble:  
Deller Consort,  Les Arts Florissants,  Cantus Cölln,  Ensemble 415, 
Orlando Consort,  Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir,  Huelgas Ensemble, 
Les Pages de la Chapelle,  Ensemble Organum,  Royal Chapel European Vocal, 
Hilliard Ensemble,  Concerto Vocale,  Stile Antico, 
La Chapelle Royale Paris,  Clément Janequin Ensemble,  Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus, 
Academy for Ancient Music Berlin,  Ghent Collegium Vocale,  Les Sacqueboutiers du Toulouse, 
La Chapelle Royale Chorus Paris,  Champs-Élysées Orchestra,  Berlin Cathedral Chorus, 
Berlin Radio Chorus,  Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,  Pacific Mozart Ensemble, 
Collegium Vocale,  Musique Oblique,  English Sinfonia, 
Magdalen College Choir Oxford,  Berlin RIAS Chamber Orchestra