Alfred Schnittke: Requiem

Requiem, music to Schiller's drama “Don Carlos” for soloists, mixed chorus, and instrumental ensemble In fourteen movements, op. 101 (1975)

Helga Therme and Gisela Burghardt, sopranos
Heidi Riess, mezzo-soprano
Albrecht Lepetit, tenor
Hermann Christian Polster, bass
Dresden Kreuzchor and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Martin Flämig, conductor

live performance 26 May 1982 in the Dresden Kreuzkirche
Dresden Festival 1982

Toward the end of his life, Schnittke was lionized by the West, partly because his style was more Western than Soviet.

aircheck 29 January 1983, 2000–2037h, KUSC-FM Los Angeles
(Por si la palabra «aircheck» no se traduce bien, sabed que significa una grabación sacada de la radio, a veces de un evento difundido en vivo, más comúnmente de un evento grabado en vivo para emitirse otro día. De costumbre los airchecks se identifican por las siglas de la radiodifusora y la fecha de emisión.)


Schnittke Requiem
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Stabat Mater: Music from the Eton Choirbook

Richard Davy: Stabat mater dolorosa
John Browne: Stabat iuxta Christi crucem
John Browne: Stabat mater dolorosa
William Cornyshe: Gaude virgo mater Christi

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, director

Four-, five-, and six-voice Marian antiphons of the late fifteenth century taken from the collection at Eton College, Berkshire, and transcribed by Christophers. Recorded at the Church of St Anne and St Agnes, London, January 1982.


antiphons from the Eton Choirbook

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Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle

Kari Lövass, sorano
Brigitte Fassbaender, alto
Peter Schreier, tenor
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Munich Vocal Ensemble
Wolfgang Sawallisch & Hans Ludwig Hirsch, piano
Reinhard Raffalt, harmonium
Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

Strange things can happen when opera composers decide to write a mass. This one was performed almost a cappella by a small complement of first-class singers and recorded live in the Church of the Baumburg Cloister in 1978.

Rossini Petite Messe
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Antonio Soler: Los Villancicos

Escolanía de la Abadía de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos
Ensemble Baroque Pygmalion
Jean-Michel Hasler, conductor
15th International Festival of Sacred Music, Sylvanès Abbey, August 1992

Padre Antonio is known more for his brilliant keyboard music, but here he is developing the villancico, originally a troubdour song, into its Baroque form as a Christmas carol for orchestra and chorus. The one characteristic that Soler preserved from the poetical form of the troubadours is its alternation of estribillo and copla, a characteristic that has since permeated Spanish music throughout the world.

The audiocassette is a Mexican release of a French production featuring a children's choir from Roncesvalles, Spain, and an instrumental group from Aveyron, France.


Soler villancicos
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