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HANDEL: Fireworks Music; Water Music; Concertos; Operatic Ballets; Messiah; Jephtha; Acis & Galatea; Coronation Anthems; Judas Maccabaeus excerpts Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner Decca Eloquence 484 [...]

BACH: St Matthew Passion Dann Coakwell, Evangelist; William Sharp, Jesus; Clara Rottsolk, Luthien Brackett, Isaiah Bell, Enrico Lagasca; Bethlehem Bach Choir & Orchestra/ Christopher Jackson Analekta 953 [2CD] 125 minutes [...]

The Feast of the Swan Den Bosch Choirbooks, Volume 4 Brumel, Clemens non Papa, Compere, Appenzeller, Susato, Vinders, Pipelare, de la Rue, anonymous Cappella Pratensis/ Stratton Bull; Sollazzo Ensemble/ Anna [...]

Timor Mortis BARRA: Salve Regina; D'ARGENTIL: Mass for the Dead; SERMISY: Lamentations Ensemble Gilles Binchois/ Dominique Vellard Evidence 110-59 minutes Of these three rarities of liturgical music from the first [...]

SCHUTZ: Motets Da Pacem, Domine (B 465); Was Betrust du Dich (B 353); Die mit Tranen Saen (B 378); Herr, nun Lassest du Deinen Diener (B 352a); Domine, Ne in [...]

MILHAUD: Scaramouche; see Collections MONTEVERDI: The Lost Vespers Domine in Adjutorium; Dixit Dominus; Ut Queant Laxis; Lauda Jerusalem; Laudate Dominum; Nisi Dominus; Sanctorum Meritis I; Beatus Vir; Salve Regina; Litany [...]

CAVALLI: Magnificat; see MONTEVERDI CHARPENTIER: Mass for Holy Saturday; Mass for the Dead Ton Koopman, org; Hanover Boys' Choir/ Heinz Hennig Hanssler 24023-52 minutes This is a reissue of recordings [...]

BACH: Cantatas, Motets, & Organ Pieces Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam; Musica Amphion/ Pieter-Jan Belder, org Brilliant 96434 [6CD] 7:23 In his introductory essay to this 6CD set, Pieter-Jan Belder stresses the [...]

CLEMENS NON PAPA: Ego Flos Campi; LASSUS: Il Magnanimo Pietro; E Non Fu; MORLEY: Hard by a Crystal Fountain; Fyre, Fyre!; BYRD: This Sweet and Marry Month of May; GESUALDO: [...]

MARCHAND: Grand Dialog; BACH: Allein Gott; Prelude & Fugue in E-flat; ROSSI: Toccata Settima; BRAHMS: Schmucke Dich; FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue, & Variation; JONES: Improvisation on Aka Tonbo; WIDOR: Symphony 9: [...]

Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (18) I Fagiolini/ Robert Hollingworth Coro 16204-72 minutes Tenebrae is the special form of the office of Matins in the final three days of Holy Week: Maundy [...]

BACH: Organ Pieces Preludes & Fugues in A (S 536), A minor (543), G (541), C (545), E minor (533); Fantasia in G (571); Fugue in C minor on a [...]

BACH: Organ Pieces 3 Peter Kofler Farao 108121 [6CD] 7 hours This is the third and final release in Peter Kofler's complete recording of Bach organ works on the 4-manual [...]

BACH: Mass in B minor Sherezade Panthaki, Rhianna Cockrell, Thomas Cooley, Paul Max Tipton; Cantata Collective/Nicholas McGegan Avie 2668 [2CD] 107 minutes The San Francisco Chronicle has described Cantata Collective [...]

Salvation BACH: Violin Sonata in G; Prelude & Fugue in D minor from WTC II; excerpts from Cantatas 58, 80, 120a, 161, 171, 204, 210; SHOSTAKOVICH: Trio 1; Prelude & [...]

BACH: Clavierubung III Jeremy Filsell, org; St Thomas Church Choir/ Jeremy Filsell Signum 744 [2CD] 112 minutes In his booklet essay with this recording, Jeremy Filsell addresses the perennial question [...]

Sacred Treasures of Venice G Gabrieli, A Gabrieli, Bassano, Merulo, Monteverdi, Finetti, Croce London Oratory Schola Cantorum/ Charles Cole--Hyperion 68427--67 minutes For many listeners, church music in Venice conjures up [...]

LOCKE: Consorts Flat and Sharp Suites from The Flat Consort and The Little Consort Phantasm; Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo Linn 737--57 minutes Matthew Locke (c1621-77) was a transitional figure in the [...]

HANDEL: Messiah Marie Lys, Margherita Maria Sala, Pablo Bemsch, Alex Rosen; Palau Chamber Choir; Royal Opera Orchestra/ Franco Fagioli Versailles 107 [2CD] 133 minutes Franco Fagioli, a native of Argentina, [...]

BYRD: Keyboard Music, all Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord, virginals, organ Brilliant 97074 [9CD] 9:54 In 1999 Hyperion released a 7CD set of the complete keyboard music of William Byrd (c1540-1623) performed [...]

BYRD: Sacred Pieces Mass for 4 Voices; Great Service; motets; organ pieces Nicolas Haigh & Jeremy Filsell, org; St Thomas Choir/ Jeremy Filsell & Gerre Hancock Signum 776 [2CD] 144 [...]

ARAUJO: Organ Pieces (13) Rui Fernando Soares Brilliant 97076--69 minutes Pedro de Araujo (c1630-1707) was an important figure in Portuguese keyboard music in the 17th Century. Biographical details are sparse. [...]

LULLY: Motets, Volume 4 Te Deum; Exaudiat te Dominus Versailles Pages & Singers; Les Epopees/ Stephane Fuget--Versailles 117-68 minutes Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-87) wrote 12 grand motets. This was the most [...]

LASSUS: Magnificats (14) based on madrigals Magnificat/ Philip Cave Linn 660 [2CD] 158 minutes As far as we can tell, Orlandus Lassus (153094) wrote more polyphonic settings of the Magnificat [...]

BACH: Organ Pieces 5 Preludes & Fugues in D (S 532), C (S 545), B minor, S 544); Orgelbuchlein Chorales (S 625644) Masaaki Suzuki BIS 2661 [SACD] 66 minutes This [...]

BACH: Cantatas 4, 106, 150; chorale preludes; KUHNAU: Christ Lag in Todesbanden Les Arts Florissants/ Paul Agnew HM 8905364-73 minutes This recording is the first in a series intended to [...]

WILLAERT: St John Passion; motets Dionysos Now/ Tore Tom Denys Evil Penguin 54-61 minutes Adrian Willaert (c1490-1562) was a native of the Low Countries, probably Bruges, but spent the greater [...]

GUERRERO: Mass, Ecce Sacerdos Magnus; Motets Gaude Barbara; Quomodo Cantabimus Canticum Domini?; Simile Est Regnum Caelorum; O Crux Splendidior; Ductus Est Jesus; Peccantem Me Quotidie; Beatus Es et Bene Tibi [...]

DANDRIEU: Organ Pieces, Book 1 Pieter-Jan Belder Brilliant 95137 [2CD] 122 minutes Jean-Francois Dandrieu (1682-1738) was born on the Isle de la Cite in Paris. It was mainly an artisan [...]

CHARPENTIER: Te Deum; De Profundis; Magnificat Gwendoline Blondeel & Cecile Achille, s; David Tricou, ct; Mathias Vidal, t; Geoffroy Buffiere, b; Chapelle Harmonique/ Valentin Tournet--Versailles 98-65 minutes Of the voluminous [...]

BACH, JS & JC: Motets Solomon's Knot/ Jonathan Sells Prospero 73 [2CD] 92 minutes The motets of JS Bach constitute a small category in his total output. Of the standard [...]

BACH: Cantatas 35, 54, 169 Reginald Mobley, ct; Nicholas McGegan, org; Cantata Collective Centaur 4035-58 minutes This is the second volume in a series of Bach cantata recordings by Cantata [...]

HANDEL: Israel in Egypt Margaret Carpenter Haigh & Molly Netter,s; Daniel Moody, ct; Jacob Perry, t; Edward Vogel, bar; Apollo's Fire/ Jeannette Sorrell Avie 2629-74 minutes The first version of [...]

Bach: Trio Sonatas (6) Manuel Tomadin, organ Brilliant 96438--80 minutes JS Bach's six trio sonatas for the organ were probably written as study pieces for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann [...]

Dering & philips: Motets & Consort Music Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; In Echo/ Matthew Martin Linn 717--61 minutes Peter Philips (1560-1628) and Richard Dering (c1580-1630) were English Catholics who [...]

Weelkes: Anthems, Canticles, & Consort Music What Joy So True; Lord, to Thee I Make My Moan; All People, Clap Your Hands; Hosanna to the Son of David; O How [...]

London Circa 1740-- Handel's Musicians HANDEL: Trio Sonata, op 2:5; Hornpipe for Vauxhall; WEIDEMAN: Flute Concerto, op 2:6; SAMMARTINI: Recorder Concerto in F; CASTRUCCI: Gamba Sonata in G minor; OSWALD: [...]