New Releases
NEW RELEASES NOW AVAILABLE!
- SDG 705 - BRAHMS SYMPHONY 4
- SDG 710 - SANTIAGO A CAPPELLA
Previous releases in both series have received phenomenal
press coverage and tremendous reviews for performance, sound quality and packaging.
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SDG 705 - Brahms Symphony 4 (1 cd) contains:
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
Overture, Coriolan Op.62 (1807)
Giovanni Gabrieli c.1554/7-1612
Sanctus & Benedictus a 12
Heinrich Schütz 1585-1672
Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich? SWV 415 (1650)
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
from Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150 (c.1708-9)
No.6 Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn
No.7 Ciacona: Meine Tage in den Leiden
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
Geistliches Lied Op.30 (1865)
arr. Gardiner for mixed chorus and strings
Fest- und Gedenksprüche Op.109 (1889)
1. Unsere Väter hofften auf dich
2. Wenn ein starker Gewappneter
3. Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk
Symphony No.4 in E minor Op 98 (1885)
I Allegro non troppo
II Andante moderato
III Allegro giocoso
IV Allegro energico e passionato
(Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, London)
The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John
Eliot Gardiner
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Soli Deo Gloria is proud to release the last instalment of its successful Brahms Symphony series which sees John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique explore the music of Johannes Brahms.
This album is a celebration of the Fourth Symphony and the various pieces that contributed to its making.
From baroque to romantic, and from great orchestral pieces to intimate choral works, the listener gains a wonderful insight into Brahms’ mind and music making, through pieces that he loved and inspired him.
The Fourth Symphony was described by Richard Strauss as “a giant work, great in concept an invention, masterful in its form, and yet from A to Z genuine Brahms, in a word, an enrichment to our art”. Drawing from many sources of the musical past, it is nevertheless absolutely unique.
It is impregnated with baroque influence - the Finale was directly inspired by Bach’s cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich. Brahms enjoyed conducting less known old repertoire such as Gabrieli’s Sanctus Benedictus and Schütz’s Saul, Saul. They influenced his choral writing as we can hear in the Geistliches Lied. Brahms was also famously inspired by Beethoven, and the Finale to the Fourth clearly owes to his Coriolan overture.
The recordings from this series are drawn from Gardiner’s two-year Brahms and his Antecedents project which not only celebrated Brahms the composer, but traced the roots from which Brahms drew his creative inspiration. No other composer of the 19th century had such a close and informed relationship to music of the past and for this reason, great choral works by composers as varied as Beethoven, Bach, Schütz and Gabrielli are performed alongside Brahms’ compositions.
The booklet includes a conversation between John Eliot Gardiner and composer Hugh Wood, explaining how the pieces relate to each other and giving a moving account of Brahms as a composer and as a man.
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SDG 710 - Santiago a cappella (1 cd) contains:
Music from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat:
Mariam matrem virginem
soloist: Elin Manahan-Thomas
and by composers Francisco Guerrero:
Ave Virgo Sanctissima
Duo Seraphim
soloists: Grace Davidson, Elin Manahan-Thomas, Samuel Evans
Alonso Lobo:
Lamentationes Ieremiae Prophetae
Versa est in luctum
John IV of Portugal:
Crux Fidelis
Tomás Luis de Victoria:
O lux et decus Hispaniae
O vos omnes
Manuel Cardoso:
Non mortui qui sunt in inferne
Philippe Rogier:
Salva nos, Domine
(recorded: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London)
The Monteverdi Choir | John
Eliot Gardiner
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here for a French Translation of the sleeve notes.
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here for a German Translation of the sleeve notes.
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here for the English sleeve notes.
Soli Deo Gloria is proud to release a sequel to its best selling album to date, Pilgrimage to Santiago (SDG701).
This CD is a journey through medieval and renaissance Spain. It takes listeners from the 14th century polyphonies of the Llibre Vermell (Red Book) of Montserrat - one of the only surviving manuscripts, from a time when music was transmitted orally - to elaborate 16th and 17th century choral music which travelled internationally thanks to the recent invention of print.
During the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, pilgrimage routes formed part of a broader network of cultural and commercial connections between ecclesiastical institutions in Spain, Portugal and the rest of Europe.
This is an anthology of Golden Age “classics” which would have been performed throughout Europe for centuries. In turn moving, intimate, spectacular and awe inspiring, this sacred music is always uplifting and deeply spiritual.
This is the oldest of two recordings made around the 2004 Pilgrimage to Santiago - a project undertaken by the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner for their 40th anniversary. The musicians travelled through France and Spain to perform sacred polyphony of the Iberian peninsula along the route to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
The CD features the same luxurious packaging as Pilgrimage to Santiago. It includes detailed notes by musicologist Tess Knighton.
This album was previously released internationally by Universal Spain also under the title Santiago a cappella.
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