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Marcus Creed, RIAS-Kammerchor - Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (2001)

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Marcus Creed, RIAS-Kammerchor - Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (2001)

Marcus Creed, RIAS-Kammerchor - Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 80:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # 62047 6 | Recorded: 2000

After the celebrated Stabat Mater, already recorded to great acclaim by the RIAS-Kammerchor, here is Rossini’s other masterpiece in the domain of sacred music, the last of his “sins of old age”. This Petite Messe solennelle is indeed “small” in terms of the forces deployed - the instrumental accompaniment is limited to two pianos and a harmonium - but it also well deserves the adjective “solemn” for its ample scale and its formidable dramatic power. In many respects, this work may be seen as its composer’s musical testament. Dazzled, like all his critical colleagues, Filippo Filippi wrote after the first performance in March 1864: “This time, Rossini has surpassed himself, for no-one can tell what is the more impressive, his learning or his inspiration.”

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (2001)

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Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (2001)

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 57:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901693 | Recorded: 1999

One of the first, and best, recordings of this splendid but interpretatively elusive work was made in Berlin in 1954 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay. Like the present recording, it featured the RIAS (Berlin Radio) Chamber Choir, though in those days the fledgling choir was supplemented in the full choruses by the famous St Hedwig’s Cathedral Choir. Now it is on its own, acquitting itself superbly in all movements and dimensions; what’s more, the conductor of the entire enterprise is its own conductor, the English-born Marcus Creed.

Marcus Creed – Schubert: Nachtgesang, Rias Kammerchor (1999)

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Marcus Creed – Schubert: Nachtgesang, Rias Kammerchor (1999)

Marcus Creed – Schubert: Nachtgesang, Rias Kammerchor (1999)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:21 | 236 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: 901669

This is a beautiful, heartwarming record. Schubert's part-songs, originally written for friendly gatherings at home, have never received the recognition they deserve, perhaps partly because he himself underrated them. Yet their extraordinary variety of mood, character, and texture, (often within a single song) and the inspired melodies, harmonic surprises, and magical modulations, are vintage Schubert.

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1994)

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Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1994)

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS-Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (1994)
EAC | APE | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 711 Mb | Total time: 61:54+56:25+41:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # BC 1057-2 | Recorded: 1994

Jephtha, first performed in 1752, was Handel’s last major work, written while he was struggling with poor health and failing eyesight. Yet the score contains some of his most powerful and moving music, notably the chorus’s bleak paean to blind faith, ‘How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!’ Jephtha is also one of his more operatic oratorios and, if many Baroque operas require the suspension of disbelief, this libretto (by Thomas Morell) may need modern listeners to suspend their distaste at the perversities of its 18th-century pietism. Handel’s wonderfully humane music cuts through all such sanctimony, however, as if – as the Handel scholar Winton Dean has argued – in highlighting the themes of personal suffering and capricious fate, Handel implicitly ‘makes Jehovah the villain of the piece’.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Baltikum: Einfelde, Mažulis, Vasks, Tormis, Dzenītis, Janulytė, Pärt (2020)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Baltikum: Einfelde, Mažulis, Vasks, Tormis, Dzenītis, Janulytė, Pärt (2020)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Baltikum: Einfelde, Mažulis, Vasks, Tormis, Dzenītis, Janulytė, Pärt (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 71:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # SWR19087CD | Recorded: 2019

The folk music of the Baltic peoples can be traced back to pagan times whereas the development of their art music did not start until around 100 years ago. Every country has it's own founding fathers where music is concerned: the Estonians admire Heino Eller and the Latvians Jazeps Vitols as the founder of their respective national music culture. Arvo Part was one of Eller's students. The founding figure of Lithuanian art music and art is Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, who created fugues and sonatas as well as symphonic poems, music for piano, and choral works. This is the ninth and last installment of the SWR Vokalensemble series dedicated to musical portraits of different countries and the last release with it's chief conductor Marcus Creed. The SWR Vokalensemble is internationally renowned as one of the best choirs for modern a cappella repertoire, it's performances are characterized by exquisite mastership.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Japan: Hosokawa, Takemitsu, Mamiya, Kondō (2019)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Japan: Hosokawa, Takemitsu, Mamiya, Kondō (2019)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Japan: Hosokawa, Takemitsu, Mamiya, Kondō (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 67:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SWR | # SWR19079CD | Recorded: 2018

This is a new installment in the SWR Vokalensemble's country series. It contains excellent performances of rarely performed and recorded choral works. The SWR Vokalensemble is among the best choirs in the world. The accompanying booklet contains the Japanese texts of the works. In it's more than 2000-year history Japan has developed it's own, independent music, whose principal means of expression are single tones and tonal color, which is used in quite a broad spectrum, including sounds. References to nature and it's sounds is another aspect of great significance. This album presents a selection of choral works which were composed after 1950, at a time when a lot of Japanese composers began to free themselves from European and American music as their model and started to develop individual styles. In doing so, they also used elements of Japan's musical tradition and integrated them into their own musical language in various ways.

Messen: Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Weber, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schumann, Kiel, Gounod, Bruckner [10CDs] (2013)

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Messen: Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Weber, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schumann, Kiel, Gounod, Bruckner [10CDs] (2013)

Messen: Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Weber, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schumann, Kiel, Gounod, Bruckner [10CDs] (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,85 Gb | Total time: 11:25:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C7161 | Recorded: 1982-2006

This 10 CD-Set offers a collection of the most popular Mass compositions from the Viennese Classics up to the romantic period. It includes famous masterpieces like Mozart’s „Coronation Mass“, Beethoven Missa solemnis, Haydn „Harmony Mass“, Gounod St. Cecilia Mass but also rarities like „Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni“ by Michael Haydn, the „Coronation Mass“ by Cherubini, „Missa sacra“ by Robert Schumann and the „Misa solemnis“ of the german romantic composer Friedrich Kiel. Performed by well known artists like the Vienna Boys’ Choir, RIAS Chamber Choir, Tölzer Boys’ Choir, Wiener Akademie and last but not least also includes the spectacular recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with conductor Michael Gielen.

Marcus Creed, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Dixit Dominus (2009)

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Marcus Creed, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Dixit Dominus (2009)

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Dixit Dominus (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 301 Mb | Total time: 56:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902041 | Recorded: 2008

Marcus Creed amply proves in this recording of the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne and the Dixit Dominus that he has what it takes to conduct George Frederick Handel. He's got the big beat down, plus the muscular rhythms, vigorous tempos, and vivid textures, as well as the tight ensembles and the unstoppable drive so essential in making Handel come alive. And that's just in the fast choral movements. In the solos and duets, Creed creates poised, alert, and wholly sympathetic accompaniments that help shape the singers' performances as part of the total work. And what singers! Both sopranos are superlative, especially Sophie Kussmann, and countertenor Andreas Scholl is, as always, strong, yet supple and sensitive.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - France: Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Jolivet, Messiaen, Aperghis (2018)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - France: Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Jolivet, Messiaen, Aperghis (2018)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - France: Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Jolivet, Messiaen, Aperghis (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 268 Mb | Total time: 70:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # SWR19065CD | Recorded: 2005-2017

French intellectuals, especially musicians and writers, were enchanted by the magic of Richard Wagner's music, but they earnestly wanted to pursue new ideas for what might follow. They believed that music and art should be free from 'German elements' and they consequently wanted to establish a decidedly contrasting, French style of music. It was for this reason that Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns set up the Societé Nationale de Musique in 1871, tasking it with supporting new French compositions. Successive composers were fascinated by new developments in the great French music tradition and experimented with modal alternatives and aspects of counterpoint. Compositional clarity was expected to express the simple but poetic relationship between music and text, drawing on graceful melodic lines and a Renaissance-like serenity of expression.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Polska: Penderecki, Szymanowski, Górecki, Lutosławski, Haubenstock-Ramati (2016)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Polska: Penderecki, Szymanowski, Górecki, Lutosławski, Haubenstock-Ramati (2016)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Polska: Penderecki, Szymanowski, Górecki, Lutosławski, Haubenstock-Ramati (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 225 Mb | Total time: 57:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # SWR19017CD | Recorded: 2015

Das SWR Vokalensemble gehört zu den besten Chören der Welt. Ein weiterer Baustein in der Serie mit Chorwerken aus verschiedenen Ländern. Sehr selten aufgeführte Werke von Szymanowski, Gorecki, Haubenstock-Ramati und Lutoslawski, den bedeutendsten polnischen Komponisten. Dass Polen besonders im 20. Jahrhundert so viele und so herausragende Komponisten hervorgebracht hat, ist angesichts der politischen Geschichte des Landes sehr überraschend. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg und nach Stalins Tod brach sich auf dem Musikfestival 'Warschauer Herbst' 1956 die aufgestaute Kreativität Bahn und es präsentierte sich das ungeheure musikalische Potential des Landes einer erstaunten Weltöffentlichkeit.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Great Britain: Britten, Harvey, MacMillan, Tavener, Davies (2015)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Great Britain: Britten, Harvey, MacMillan, Tavener, Davies (2015)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Great Britain: Britten, Harvey, MacMillan, Tavener, Davies (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 294 Mb | Total time: 76:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 93.342 | Recorded: 2014

Great Britain's music culture is marked by a centuries-old tradition of choral singing, as is shown, for instance, in the institution of college choirs. Church policy had a beneficial effect on the development of sacred music. After the Anglican Church separated from Rome in the 16th c. and the abbeys were secularized, many cathedral choirs were founded which took over the Holy Office from the monastic communities. The fact that sacred choral music in the British Isles is still written largely with an orientation to liturgical purposes must be understood as an effect of this constellation. The close relationship between the way composers and performers work, moreover, explains the tendency of a large portion of this art to be addressed to the general public.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Italia: Verdi, Scelsi, Nono, Pizzetti, Petrassi (2015)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Italia: Verdi, Scelsi, Nono, Pizzetti, Petrassi (2015)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Italia: Verdi, Scelsi, Nono, Pizzetti, Petrassi (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 71:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 93.329 | Recorded: 2004, 2012, 2013

In this latest installment of recordings focusing on the choral traditions of different countrys choral music traditions launched last year by the Vokalensemble Stuttgart des SWR, we now arrive in sunny Italy, a country said to have no native choral tradition. Giuseppe Verdi of course used choirs in his operas, but apart from that there are only a few choral works that have sustained any place in the repertoire, some of the finest of which are presented here. With the beginning of the 20th century, however, one encounters composers that are less well known, but whom have certainly composed some very exciting music for choir, including Pizzetti, Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Nono and Goffredo Petrassi.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Russia: Schnittke, Taneyev, Gubaidulina, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky (2014)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Russia: Schnittke, Taneyev, Gubaidulina, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky (2014)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Russia: Schnittke, Taneyev, Gubaidulina, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 218 Mb | Total time: 62:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 93.317 | Recorded: 2013

Diese CD bietet eine breite Palette russischer Komponisten, die in der Tradition orthodoxer Kirchenmusik komponierten. Sie reicht von Michail Glinka, Peter Tschaikowsky, Sergej Tanejew und Sergej Rachmaninoff bis zu Alfred Schnittke und Sofia Gubaidulina, von romantisch-expressiven Vertonungen bis zu den expressiven Klängen der beiden neueren Komponisten.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - America: Copland, Reich, Cage, Feldman, Bernstein, Barber (2014)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - America: Copland, Reich, Cage, Feldman, Bernstein, Barber (2014)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - America: Copland, Reich, Cage, Feldman, Bernstein, Barber (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 252 Mb | Total time: 77:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 93.306 | Recorded: 2012, 2013

The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart is one of the few choirs enjoying an international reputation. Their latest recording has “America” as its subject - and presents a tremendously wide range of forms and expressions, from music written under the influence of European masters to works that boldly explore experiments in aesthetic reorientation. The big names of the U.S. composers are of course represented, including Leonard Bernstein with his single a cappella work, the “Missa Brevis”, Steve Reich with his minimalist “Proverb” and John Cage with some of his late “Number Pieces”. Everything is presented at the highest artistic level, with ravishing sonics that cannot be beat.

RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Daniel Reuss - Poulenc: Figure humaine, Motets (2013)

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RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Daniel Reuss - Poulenc: Figure humaine, Motets (2013)

RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Daniel Reuss - Poulenc: Figure humaine, Motets (2013)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 385 MB | 01:46:05
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi

Fifty years after his death, Poulenc is one of the most frequently performed French composers of the twentieth century all over the world. His choral output offers a nuanced portrait of a musician who, at bottom, fell in love with the texts he set, whether they were sacred (CD 1) or secular (CD 2). ʻA singer, as fashioned by Francis, presents us with words raised to the height of severity or charm by Poulenc’s musical intelligence’, wrote Jean Cocteau. An admirable compliment to an oeuvre as capable of expressing faith (Motets pour un temps de pénitence) as resistance.