à la Gloire de Dieu. Album by The Sixteen and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

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à la Gloire de Dieu. Album by The Sixteen and BBC Philharmonic OrchestraAlbum Description Winner of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik This recording draws together some truly great choral pieces Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms through to Barber's Agnus Dei, the moving choral setting of his ever popular Adagio for Strings. Here the most prominent new world composers of the time, Ives and Barber, are brought together with old world counterparts, Poulenc and Stravinsky, in a disc of deeply felt music expressing

bloody fate

Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble

Gustav HOLST

Hallelujah (from Messiah)

Nunc dimittis

This is the second album we have recorded with the Britten Sinfonia

Iuravit Dominus

Tracks 9-20 previously released on COR16042

Opus 18 needs little introduction and is often revered as demonstrating Beethoven’s total mastery of the Classical String Quartet

One of the greatest of England's composers

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) (from Missa Breve ‘La Stella’) 1