Harmonia Mundi Sacred Music Box Set (30 Cds)

various artists, orchestras and conductors

Complete Masterworks [CD 1] Chant of the Early Christians - Milanese, Old Roman, Benevento & Mozarabic repertoires [CD 2] The Reign of Gregorian Chant - Gregorian Requiem Mass, Mass for the Year 1000, Codex Calixtinus, Cistercian chant [CD 3] The Birth of Polyphony - Polyphony at St-Martial de Limoges (11th cent.) • Notre Dame School (12th cent.) Codex Bamberg (13th cent.) • Marian Songs of the 13th century. Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany (14th & 15th cent.) Sarum Chant (13th & 14th Cent.) [CD 4-5] The Polyphonic Mass from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance - Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame/ Josquin Desprez: Missa ‘Pangue lingua’ / janequin: Messe ‘La Bataille’ / Lassus: Missa ‘Tous les regretz’ / Palestrina: Missa ‘Viri Galilaei’ • Byrd: Mass for 4 voices [CD 6] The Polyphonic Motet from Ars Antiqua to the Renaissance - Ars Antiqua • The Ars Nova revival / Renaissance motets • Josquin Desprez: Motets [CD 7] Petits & grand Motets - Bouzignac: Ecce homo / Ha! Plange • Dumont: Super flumina Babylonis * Delalande / Lull y: petits & grands motets • Charpentier: Te Deum [CD 8] Lamentations and Leçons de Ténèbres - Tiburtio Massaino: Musica super Threnos Ieremiae prophete • Lassus: Lamentationes Hieremiae • Charpentier: Seconde Leçon de Ténèbres du Mercredy • François couperin: Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres / Krenek: Hieremiae prophaete Lamentationes [CD 9-10] Baroque Vespers - Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (2 CD) Philippe Herreweghe/ Rovetta: Solemn Vespers for the Birth of Louis XIV [CD 11-16] Great oratorios - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cain overo Il primo omicidio – Cond. René Jacobs (2CD) / Handel: Messiah - Cond. William Christie (2CD) / Mendelssohn: Paulus - Cond. P. Herreweghe (2 CD) [CD 17-19] Music for the Reformed Church - Claudin de Sermisy, Paschal de l’Estocart: Psalms of the Reformation / Tallis: 9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop / Parker’s Psalter / Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences, full anthem Z50 / Schütz: Musikalische Exequien / Bruhns: Cantata, Hemmt eure Tränenflut / J.S. Bach: Missa brevis in F BWV 233 Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 - Cond. René Jacobs (2 CD) [CD 20-21] Stabat Mater Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Rossini: Stabat Mater (complete works) [CD 22-24] Requiem - Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Duruflé: Requiem (complete works) [CD 25-28] 19th and 20th centuries - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis op.123 / Mendelssohn: Psalms op.78 nos 1-3, Psalm 100, Motets op.69 nos.1-3, Missa breve, Choral motet / Bruckner: Motets: Ave Maria, Christus factus est, Os justi, Locus iste, Vexilla regis / Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, Mass in G major / Bernstein: Mass (complete works) [CD 29] Orthodox Chant - Choral Works by Bortnyansky, Titov, Galuppi, Sarti, Vedel / Rachmaninov: Vespers [CD 30] Sung Texts (PDF)

Special re-issue for 2014. Limited pressing. Don't miss out!
A brand new box set from Harmonia Mundi entitled 'Cornerstone Works of Sacred Music' is now in stock. It is one of the most amazing box sets I have ever encountered. The set itself is packaged beautifully in a sleek flip-top box, and contains 30 CDs. The content is somewhat miraculous in the fact that not only do you get the cornerstone sacred choral works, but the definitive recordings of these works. Included are complete recordings of Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Requiems by Mozart, Brahms, Faure, Durufle, Bernstein's Mass, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Monteverdi's Vespers, Stabat Maters by Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini, and Rossini, Mendelssohn's Paulus, Charpentier's Te Deum, Masses by Palestrina, Byrd, Machaut, Josquin, Bach and Poulenc, Rachmaninov's Vespers, as well as early chant and polyphony, and other selected choral works by Purcell, Tallis, Schutz, Scarlatti. The artists are among finest in the world including Gerald Finley, Philippe Herreweghe, The Hilliard Ensemble, Alfred Deller, Rene Jacobs, William Christie, Andreas Scholl, Ian Bostridge, and the RIAS Kammerchor. The set is organized chronologically, and is accompanied by an unparralled 200 page booklet. The set also contains a CD-ROM of complete texts for all works in the box. This is quite simply one of the BEST sets I have ever come across. Harmonia Mundi has only done one pressing of this set, so once we have sold out, it is gone and is never coming back. Pick up this one of a kind set before it is gone!

A quintessential selection of the best western sacred music through the ages and continents that will please one and all, from an inquisitive novice to the discerning connoisseur. 90 complete works of essential repertoire [on 30 CDs].
Harmonia Mundi offers you the finest selection of 111 cornerstone works of western sacred music. From the earliest Christian chants to Bernstein's mass, from the gems of the Baroque to beloved Lutheran hymns, this vital collection has been created by today’s finest artists at the peak of their talents. harmonia mundi is offering it in this extremely Limited Box Edition. A gift beyond compare.