Sacred Music Box - Bach, Beethoven, Haydn

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Label: EUROARTS
Catalog: 2075118
Format: DVD

Beyer; Brook; Crowe; DeShong; DiDonato; Grunenwald; Guera; Milne; Morscheck; Phan; Rice; Rose; Schukoff; Sherratt; Wilson

Composed by: Bach; Beethoven; Haydn

EuroArts Sacred Music 4DVD box presents four of the greatest sacred works from the Baroque, Classical and early-Romantic eras, all featuring the acclaimed maestro John Nelson and each performance highlighting a different orchestral ensemble.Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterly St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, filmed live in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, during the 2011 Saint-Denis Festival, features Werner Güra, Stephen Morscheck and Lucy Crowe among its principal voices.Bach’s towering masterpiece, the Mass in B minor, BWV 232, filmed live in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, March 2006, features a stunning ensemble of soloists: Ruth Ziesak, Joyce DiDonato, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew and Dietrich Henschel.Beethoven’s late, great Missa Solemnis in D, op. 123, filmed live in the Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2010, stars Tamara Wilson, Elizabeth DeShong, Nikolai Schukoff and Brindley Sherratt.Last is Franz Joseph Haydn’s Creation, filmed live at the Grote Kerk, Naarden, Netherlands, in June 2010 with vocal soloists Lisa Milne, Werner Güra, Matthew Rose, Lucy Crowe and Jonathan Beyer.

Price: $110.98