From Allegri’s Miserer to Barber’s Agnus Dei, this new compilation offers, on 2 CDs for the price of 1, a thorough insight into the great sacred works. With great performances from Virgin Classics’ and EMI Classics’ catalogue featuring Stephanie Blythe, Barbara Bonney, Ileana Cotrubas, Véronique Gens, Barbara Hendricks, Gérard Lesne, Michel Corboz, Philip Ledger, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Raymond Leppard, Riccardo Muti, John Nelson, Roger Norrington, Andrew Parrott, Michel Plasson, Wolfgang Sawallisch and David Willcocks.

From Allegri’s Miserer to Barber’s Agnus Dei, this new compilation offers, on 2 CDs for the price of 1, a thorough insight into the great sacred works. With great performances from Virgin Classics’ and EMI Classics’ catalogue featuring Stephanie Blythe, Barbara Bonney, Ileana Cotrubas, Véronique Gens, Barbara Hendricks, Gérard Lesne, Michel Corboz, Philip Ledger, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Raymond Leppard, Riccardo Muti, John Nelson, Roger Norrington, Andrew Parrott, Michel Plasson, Wolfgang Sawallisch and David Willcocks.



Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem
Disc 1

1) Dies irae
Samuel Barber

2) Agnus Dei
Georg Friedrich Handel

3) Dixit Dominus
Gregorio Allegri

4) Miserere (excerpt)
Johann-Sebastian Bach

5) Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (from Cantata BWV 147)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Laudate Dominum

6) Vesperae solennes de confessore
Antonio Lotti

7) Crucifixus
Johann-Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor BWV 232

8) Gloria
Gabriel Fauré

9) Cantique de Jean Racine
Giacomo Puccini: Missa da Gloria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

11) Kyrie

12) Lacrimosa
Joseph Haydn: Die Schopfung

13) Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes
Franz Schubert: German Mass D 872

14) Heilig, Heilig, Heilig
Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Ehre Gottes aus der Nature Op. 48 No. 4

15) Die Himmel rühmen
Feliz Mendelssohn: Elias

16) Alsdann wird euer Licht hervorbrechen
Maurice Duruflé

17) Ubi caritas
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem

18) Pie Jesu

19) In paradisum
Disc 2
Georg Friedrich Handel: The Messiah

1) Alleluia
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat.......
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