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Artist…: VA
Album….: 1000 Years Of Sacred Music
Type…..: Normal
Genre….: Classical
Label….: Virgin Classics
Language.: English

Year…..: 2002 Source…: CDDA
R.Date…: 01-06-2013 Grabber..: EAC Secure
S.Date…: 00-00-2002 Encoder..: FLAC 1.2.1 Lossless
Quality: 606 kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels

Track List .
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TRACK LiST: CD 1/5
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01 Ambrosian And Gregorian Chant For The Feast 5:11
Of The Epiphany – Hallelujah (Puer Natus Est)
02 Ambrosian And Gregorian Chant For The Feast 3:26
Of The Epiphany – Symnolum (Credimus In Unum
Deum)
03 XIth Century French Polyphony: Easter Mass – 5:42
Trope: Paschale Carmen/Introit: Resurrexit
04 XIth Century French Polyphony: Easter Mass – 3:25
Gradual: Haec Dies
05 XIth Century French Polyphony: Easter Mass – 4:35
Organum: Alleuia V, Pascha Nostrum V,
Epulemur
06 XIth Century French Polyphony: Easter Mass – 3:46
Antiphon: Ego Sum Alpha Et Omage
07 Office For The New Year At Puy-En-Velay 4:39
Cathedral – Veni Redemptor Gancium
08 Office For The New Year At Puy-En-Velay 1:55
Cathedral – Pater Noster Qui Es In Coelis
09 Peter Abelard – O Quanta Qualita, Motet 7:49
10 Perotin – Alleluia Posius Adjutorium 9:25
11 Llibre Vermell De Montserrat – Llibre Vermell 3:58
De Montserat/O Vrigo Splendens Hic In Celso
12 Perotin – Mariam Mater Virginem 7:19
13 Guillaume De Machaut – The First Unitary 5:14
Mass: Messe De Notre Dame/Kyrie
14 Guillaume De Machaut – The First Unitary 4:02
Mass: Messe De Notre Dame/Gloria
15 Guillaume De Machaut – The First Unitary 4:31
Mass: Messe De Notre Dame/Sanctus And
Benedictus
16 Guillaume De Machaut – The First Unitary 3:05
Mass: Messe De Notre Dame/Agnus Dei

TRACK LiST: CD 2/5
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01 John Dunstable – The Motet: Veni Sancte 6:27
Spiritus/Veni Creator
02 Guillaume Dulay – Nuper Rosarium Flores 6:48
03 Johannes Ockeghem – Alma Redemptoris Mater 5:46
04 Josquin Desprez – Pater Noster 7:38
05 Roland De Lassus – Resonet In Laudibus 5 3:17
06 G.P. Da Palestrina – The Song Of Songs: 2:40
Pulchra Es Amica Mea
07 G.P. Da Palestrina – Ave Maria 3:30
08 Heinrich Schtz – Jauchzet Dem Herren Aller 7:39
Welt (Psalm 100)
09 Gregorio Allegri – Miserere 12:57
10 Claudio Monteverdi – Selva Morale E 8:57
Spirituale: Venetia 1640/Beatus Vir/Psalm 112
6
11 Thomas Tallis – Spem In Alium 10:17

TRACK LiST: CD 3/5
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01 Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Te Deum: Prlude 1:51
02 Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Te Deum: Laudamus 1:28
03 Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Te Aeternum Patrem 1:43
04 Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Pleni Sunt Coeli 2:11
Et Terra
05 Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Messe De Minuit: 6:25
Kyrie
06 Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria In D: Gloria In 2:25
Excelsis
07 Antonio Vivaldi – Et In Terra Pax 4:46
08 Henry Du Mont – Nisi Dominus (Psalm 115) 2:33
09 Andr Campra – Tum Acceptaberis: Verse 20 Of 2:35
The Miserere (Psalm 51)
10 Louis Clrambault – Justificeris Domino 0:31
11 Louis Clrambault – Miserere Mei Deus 3:58
12 Franois Couperin – Tabascere Me Fecit 3:57
13 Jean-Phlippe Rameau – In Convertendo: In 3:09
Convertendo, Dominus
14 Jean-Phlippe Rameau – Tunc Repletum Est 3:06
Gaudio Facere Vobiscum
15 Jean-Phlippe Rameau – Magnificat Dominus 3:41
Facere Nobiscum
16 G.B. Pergolesi – Stabat Mater: Stabat Mater 4:39
Dolorosa
17 G.B. Pergolesi – Vidit Suum Dulcem Natum 3:20
18 G.B. Pergolesi – Eja Mater Fons Amoris 2:09
19 George Frideric Handel – Dixit Dominus 5:18
20 George Frideric Handel – Messiah: Hallelujah 4:21
21 J.S. Bach – Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben 2:13
(Cantata BWV 147) Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude
22 J.S. Bach – Mass In B Minor BWV 232: Qui 4:26
Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris
23 J.S. Bach – St. John Passion BWV 245: Final 8:03
Chorus Ruht Wohl Ihr Heiligen Gebeine

TRACK LiST: CD 4/5
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01 W.A. Mozart – Requiem K626: Requiem Aeternam 4:02
02 W.A. Mozart – Kyrie Eleison 2:14
03 W.A. Mozart – Lacrimosa 3:37
04 W.A. Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus: Motet K618 2:37
05 Franz Schubert – Hymn To The Holy Ghost D964 7:22
06 L. Van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis Op. 123: 6:13
Agnus Dei
07 Luigi Cherubini – Requiem In Memory Of Louis 7:19
XVI: Introit & Kyrie
08 Gioachino Rossini – Stabat Mater: Inflammatus 4:19
Et Accensus
09 F. Mendelssohn – Psalm 42: Wie Der Hirsch 5:51
Schreiet Nach Frischen Wasser
10 Charles Gounod – Messe Solennelle De Sainte 3:34
Ccile: Domine Salvum
11 J. Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem: Ihr Habt 6:24
Nun Traurigkeit
12 G. Verdi – Messa Da Requiem: Dies Irae 2:17
13 G. Verdi – Messa Da Requiem: Lux Aeterna 6:19
14 Csar Franck – Redemption: General Chorus 4:14
Devant La Loi Nouvelle
15 Gabriel Faur – Requiem: Pie Jesu 3:25
16 Gabriel Faur – Libera Me 4:35
17 Gabriel Faur – In Paradisum 3:33

TRACK LiST: CD 5/5
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01 Sergei Rachmaninov – Vespers: Nunc Dimittis 3:30
02 Sergei Rachmaninov – Vespers: Ave Maria 2:40
03 Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei 7:44
04 Francis Poulenc – Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps 3:23
De Nol: O Magnum Mysterium
05 Francis Poulenc – Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps 2:38
De Nol: Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite
06 Francis Poulenc – Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps 3:11
De Nol: Videntes Stellam
07 Francis Poulenc – Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps 2:06
De Nol: Hodie Christus Natus Est
08 Maurice Durufl – Requiem Op. 9: Kyrie 3:32
09 Maurice Durufl – Requiem Op. 9: Pie Jesu 3:27
10 Maurice Durufl – Requiem Op. 9: Libera Me 5:39
11 Maurice Durufl – Requiem Op. 9: In Paradisum 2:46
12 Olivier Messiaen – O Sacrum Convivium 5:06
13 Benjamin Britten – A Shepherds Carol 4:07
14 Igor Stravinsky – Credo 2:55
15 Krzysztof Penderecki – Ave Maria 7:02
16 Henryk Gorecki – Totus Tuus 8:52
17 Arvi Prt – De Profundis 5:27

Total Size.: 84 Files/1741.MB/384:46min

Release Notes
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What is the point of compilations? Too often, it seems, they are a way for
record companies to repackage bits of the back-catalogue and sell them
several times over. At other times they come across as being a way for
people with no knowledge of serious music to own the famous tunes or
all-the-twiddly-bits from some well-known works, thereby ensuring that
they never have to listen to the whole work or do any actual thinking for
themselves. This is a cynical view, but it does tend to be the view of
people who are seriously interested in recordings. It is, presumably a view
that Virgin were aware of before they embarked on the compilation of this
extensive set of sacred music recordings. The title “1000 years of Sacred
Music” avoids aiming low with the all-too-frequent
“1000-Best-Sacred-Tunes-Ever-In-the-World-Ever-Volume 330″ and is actually
an accurate description of the contents, ranging as they do from Ambrosian
chant of no later than the 10th century up to Goreckis Totus Tuus written
for the current Popes first return visit to Warsaw in 1987. As with all
compilations the selected works do tend to be the famous examples of their
respective genres, but as an overview of Sacred music, it would be hard to
do otherwise. Further, it is obvious that those famous examples do contain
some of the most glorious musical outpourings of the human soul, if that is
not too pretentious a sentiment.

The policy for this compilation appears to have been selecting complete
works wherever possible and sizeable excerpts where length precludes use of
the entire piece. On the whole, this policy is sensible, but it does favour
the earlier (up to the renaissance) repertoire, and that of the twentieth
century rather more than is possible with the classical or, especially,
romantic repertoire. Curiously, this same period of 18th and 19th century
music is where the recordings chosen are weakest. Someone at Virgin has it
in for poor Marc-Antoine Charpentier; the Academy of St Martin in the
Fields and English Chamber Orchestra performances of his great Te Deum and
bits of the lovely Messe de Minuit are now so old fashioned and stodgy as
to be painful to listen to. Similarly, the choir of Kings College,
Cambridge, with the former orchestra under David Willcocks, was fine in the
late 1960s, but their leaden Hallelujah chorus from Messiah is not an
enjoyable offering by today’s standards.

On the other hand some of the renaissance and 20th century recordings are
worth having in any format. The Quatre Motets pour le temps de No l by
Poulenc are included entire in a wonderful performance by The Sixteen under
Harry Christophers. Blended, luminous and moving singing. The last four
works of the fifth and last disc (together making a good 25″ of singing)
gather possibly the most influential quartet of late twentieth century
choral classics in one place. These performances, by Kings Cambridge under
Stephen Cleobury and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir are exciting
and powerful performances. The latter group is here directed by Tnu
Kaljuste, who also steers the Swedish Radio Chorus most impressively
through two movements of Rachmaninovs great All Night Vigil, better known
as the Vespers. The performance makes this writer want to buy the complete
recording, and maybe that is another positive aspect of compilations. One
would normally discount all but Russian groups singing such a work, but
these Swedes disprove that notion.

In the early repertoire there is also much of value and the distribution of
repertoire into periods covering a whole disc each negates much of the
bleeding chunks feel that is normally so unfortunate an aspect of
compilations. The earliest repertoire, on disc 1, is not necessarily well
known, but the performances, after some pretty dodgy chanting on the
opening tracks (an unfortunate choice) are by groups who are true
specialists. The vast Alleluia Posuis Adjutorium by Perotin (taking a full
924″) is swept grandly on by the Studio der frhen Musik under Thomas
Binkley. This group was hugely influential in the late 1970s and 1980s and
their recordings of this very early repertoire still take a lot of beating.
On the second disc a couple of large motets by Ockeghem and Josquin are
performed by the Hilliard Ensemble, and this writer firmly believes that
there is not a better group yet. Disc 2 ends with a complete Tallis Spem in
Alium – the famous motet in 40 parts and, again, the choice of performance
by Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort is a wise one. Theirs has always
been one of the best engineered recordings of this notoriously
hard-to-capture giant.

The middle two discs, of Baroque to Romantic music include, as mentioned
above, a number of unfortunately dated performances and suffer from the
greater frequency of bleeding chunks. There is also a somewhat oppressive
obsession with settings of the Requiem Mass. Mozart, Cherubini, Brahms,
Verdi, Faur and Durufl get the ‘final farewell’ interspersed between
sombre offerings from the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Rossini’s Stabat Mater,
Gounod’s Messe Solennelle and Rdemption by Csar Franck. It’s all a bit
too religious at once, and could easily have been leavened by a few festive
motets or the odd Gloria of a mass, rather than another Agnus Dei. There
is, however, a quintet of short treats amongst the baroque offerings -
unknown or little known works of the French Baroque by Henry Du Mont, Andr
Campra, Louis Clrambault, Fran ois Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau in
lively period instrument performances. Placed one after another they make
an attractive group.

So much for the discs themselves. This collection has one big ace up its
sleeve that does move it from the ‘can’t-be-bothered-with-the-whole-work’
school of compilations to the ‘scholarly-overview’ format: a 26 page
booklet essay in 13 chapters and an extensive glossary of technical terms.
This is the work of one Adla de de Place, translated by Hugh Graham. It
is rare to see a CD booklet given this much importance in the project and
the quality and presentation are both excellent. It reminds one of the old
‘Historical Anthology of Music’ records from the 1950s in presenting a true
overview and placing the musical works into a clear historical perspective.
None of the chapters is overly long, but they cover areas as diverse as
“Oral transmission and birth of ‘Gregorian’ Chant”; “The Italian
Renaissance”; “From Polyphony to the Grand Motet of Versailles”; “Germany,
from Schtz to Bach” ending with “The Twentieth Century”. Thus the booklet
takes a slightly different methodological approach to the discs, dividing
principally by geographical or, in the era covering the reformation,
denominational regions. The whole essay is written as a self standing unit,
not making direct reference to the works on the CDs, and thus the
relationship is inverted – the discs serve to illustrate the booklet, not
the other way around. This was Virgin’s wisest move. While not all of the
recordings are particularly desirable, the set as a whole has much to
offer, and for any student of Western music, of whatever age, will be a
valuable resource in developing understanding of traditions.