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Musica Sacra - Sacred Music Through The Ages / Deller, et al

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by: Andre Danican Philidor

Release Date November 10, 1998

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Christus Oratorio

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from: Hungaroton

Release Date September 15, 1999
Liszts's Christus is an absolutely spiritual experience. It's full of complex and divine harmonies, and the choral and orchestral forces are commited on elevating us to the heights!

Be ready to be transformed!

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Liszt: Christus

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from: Haenssler

Release Date January 01, 1998
Liszts's Christus is an absolutely spiritual experience. It's full of complex and divine harmonies, and the choral and orchestral forces are commited on elevating us to the heights!

Be ready to be transformed!

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Liszt: Christus

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from: Hanssler Classics

Release Date February 29, 2000
I cannot claim anywhere near the authority of Mr. Carpenter, but while I second nearly everything he says in his fine review, we part company when it comes to the March of the Three Kings movement. It is incredibly hard to catch the right combination of vigor and spiritual afflatus in this march without descending into bombast, and I feel Maestro Rilling erred on the side of good taste, with the result that the piece goes at too low an emotional temperature and the miraculous release at the climax of the movement is underplayed. For me, the definitive performance of this movement remains the piano transcription of Ervin Nyiregyhazi, warts and all. This one reservation apart, I cannot recommend Rilling's traversal of Christus highly enough. ... Read More:

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Polifonia Sacra Del XVI Secolo

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from: Stradivarius

Release Date April 21, 1998
I cannot claim anywhere near the authority of Mr. Carpenter, but while I second nearly everything he says in his fine review, we part company when it comes to the March of the Three Kings movement. It is incredibly hard to catch the right combination of vigor and spiritual afflatus in this march without descending into bombast, and I feel Maestro Rilling erred on the side of good taste, with the result that the piece goes at too low an emotional temperature and the miraculous release at the climax of the movement is underplayed. For me, the definitive performance of this movement remains the piano transcription of Ervin Nyiregyhazi, warts and all. This one reservation apart, I cannot recommend Rilling's traversal of Christus highly enough. ... Read More:

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Gregorio Paniagua: La Folia

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from: Harmonia Mundi Fr.

Release Date February 12, 1992
A radio station today played Michael Praetorius' Dances from Terpsichore, and remembering I had this very very funny treatment of early music, I listened to this again. It is every bit as melodic when it's serious, with all the right instrumentation (recorders and such), but then every once in a while it takes these strange, surprising turns which make you laugh. It's not as silly as, say, PDQ Bach -- no, it's actually pretty earnest -- it's just that they weave in all these other types of music, and instruments (although they never go electric -- maybe the buzz saw is an electric one, but there are also gasoline buzz saws, right?).

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Viadana: Responsoria et Lamentationes

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from: Stradivarius

Release Date September 01, 1996
A radio station today played Michael Praetorius' Dances from Terpsichore, and remembering I had this very very funny treatment of early music, I listened to this again. It is every bit as melodic when it's serious, with all the right instrumentation (recorders and such), but then every once in a while it takes these strange, surprising turns which make you laugh. It's not as silly as, say, PDQ Bach -- no, it's actually pretty earnest -- it's just that they weave in all these other types of music, and instruments (although they never go electric -- maybe the buzz saw is an electric one, but there are also gasoline buzz saws, right?).

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Tucapsky: Choral Music

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from: Somm Recordings

Release Date May 21, 1996
A radio station today played Michael Praetorius' Dances from Terpsichore, and remembering I had this very very funny treatment of early music, I listened to this again. It is every bit as melodic when it's serious, with all the right instrumentation (recorders and such), but then every once in a while it takes these strange, surprising turns which make you laugh. It's not as silly as, say, PDQ Bach -- no, it's actually pretty earnest -- it's just that they weave in all these other types of music, and instruments (although they never go electric -- maybe the buzz saw is an electric one, but there are also gasoline buzz saws, right?).

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Christ Rising

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from: Guild

Release Date January 17, 2005
A radio station today played Michael Praetorius' Dances from Terpsichore, and remembering I had this very very funny treatment of early music, I listened to this again. It is every bit as melodic when it's serious, with all the right instrumentation (recorders and such), but then every once in a while it takes these strange, surprising turns which make you laugh. It's not as silly as, say, PDQ Bach -- no, it's actually pretty earnest -- it's just that they weave in all these other types of music, and instruments (although they never go electric -- maybe the buzz saw is an electric one, but there are also gasoline buzz saws, right?).

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Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories; Benedictus; Miserere

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from: Warner Classics

Release Date May 22, 2007
A radio station today played Michael Praetorius' Dances from Terpsichore, and remembering I had this very very funny treatment of early music, I listened to this again. It is every bit as melodic when it's serious, with all the right instrumentation (recorders and such), but then every once in a while it takes these strange, surprising turns which make you laugh. It's not as silly as, say, PDQ Bach -- no, it's actually pretty earnest -- it's just that they weave in all these other types of music, and instruments (although they never go electric -- maybe the buzz saw is an electric one, but there are also gasoline buzz saws, right?).