chorus/vocals

Mozart: Anime Immortali / Franco Fagioli

Counter-tenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, exploring the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate, the recorded works share a sublime and profound demonstrating Mozartʼs strong connection to the castrato voice.

(Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187044 $15.99

Ligeti: Complete Works for a cappella Choir [2 CDs]

In addition to his popular compositions such as orchestral works and chamber music, György Ligeti also wrote vocal music, among them numerous and demanding a cappella choral works. These, just like his canonically treated instrumental works, reflect his changes of style. Ligeti exclusively set Hungarian poetry to music, showing a marked preference for texts by Balint Balassa and Sándor Weöres. (SWR Classic)

2CD# SWR19128CD $26.99

Trotta: Intimations of Immortality / MSU State Singers

This recording includes a fivemovement work by Michael John Trotta along with three a cappella traditional works. Intimations of Immortality is based on Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. (Gia Choral Works)

1CD# GIACD-1129 $16.99

Cupido – Love Songs / Markus Miesenberg

Here is a totally original disc with a song repertoire seldom if ever recorded. Accompanied by two specialists playing on period instruments (fortepiano and guitar), the tenor Markus Miesenberg delivers a program of proto-romantic love songs from Vienna. (Challenge)

1SACD# CC 72936 $18.99

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem / Vox Luminis

Johannes Brahms drew texts from various Biblical sources for his Deutsches Requiem. As we hear in his choral music, he had a passion for polyphony and was inspired by models from the great Lutheran tradition of the late Renaissance and the Baroque. (Ricercar)

1CD# RIC445 $18.99

Sword in the Soul / London Choral Sinfonia

In an album that includes worldpremiere recordings, Michael Waldron and the London Choral Sinfonia perform Francis Grier’s modern-day Passion, Sword in the Soul, to texts by Rowan Williams narrated by Simon Callow, Samantha Bond and Adrian Peacock. Alongside Grier’s Sword in the Soul, we also hear Lux Eterna. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100223 $16.99

Coleridge: Requiem

“Composers have been setting the Requiem texts to music since the late Middle Ages, and it was to these early settings that I was drawn when writing my own offering: with simple, flowing melodic threads combined to create a richer fabric. My thanks to Rupert Gough and the vibrant young voices of the Choir of Royal Holloway.” – Matthew Coleridge (Convivium)

1CD# CVI081 $16.99

This Island / Susan Narucki; Donald Berman

GRAMMY Award winning American soprano Susan Narucki, “one of the great practitioners of contemporary vocal music” (Opera News) presents This Island, a specially curated, unique set of 21 art songs written in the first half of the 20th century, chiefly by women and some receiving their world premiere recordings. (Avie)

1CD# AV2592 $17.99

Mahler, Strauss: Befreit – A Soul Surrendered Having won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and Royal Overseas League Award in the same year, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately writes of this project: ‘It has been my great pleasure to record with Joseph once again. We have long shared a mutual passion for early-twentieth-centuryromantic Lieder and talked of making a disc including songs by Mahler and Strauss. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20177 $20.99

Jonathan Dove: Sappho Sings

“It’s testament to the force of Sappho’s art that, even though practically all that remains of her work is, tantalizingly, just fragments, those fragments of her work still have the power to move, intrigue and inspire us. Huge thanks to Ralph Woodward for giving me the opportunity to set Alasdair Middleton’s wonderfully immediate translations.” (Convivium)

1CD# CVI076 $11.99