2010-12-10

Highlights of the collection

A relatively brief playlist of highlights:


Individual videos,
Years are years of birth
1410 Ockeghem

Sheer gorgeous shimmering walls of sound.

1490 Taverner


1505 Tallis
Tallis’s Gaude gloriosa, Part-1

A very similar work: Tallis’s 40-part motet Spem in alium
Patience: music starts at second 13.


1567 Monteverdi

Alternative performances of Beatus Vir at youtube.com

1583 Gibbons
(This one is a little more overtly religious and less aesthetic.)


1585 Schütz

Clicking here will initiate the playing of a lovely series of Schütz’s works.

1587 Scheidt


1653 Pachelbel


1685 Bach
BWV 71


BWV 51

Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!
Was der Himmel und die Welt
An Geschöpfen in sich hält,
Müssen dessen Ruhm erhöhen,
Und wir wollen unserm Gott
Gleichfalls itzt ein Opfer bringen,
Dass er uns in Kreuz und Not
Allezeit hat beigestanden.
Praise ye God in ev'ry nation!
All that heaven and the world
Of created order hold
Must be now his fame exalting,
And we would to this our God
Likewise now present an off'ring
For that he midst cross and woe
Always hath stood close beside us.

That was Edith Mathis.
Other videos have better visuals,
but it is hard to imagine it better sung.



go, Go, GO! :-)


1685 Handel


Just the “Hallelujah, Amen”. But why not hear it again :-)




1710 Pergolesi



1732 Haydn
The Creation is much longer than the other works on this page,
but it is so great I cannot resist including it here!





1895 Orff

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