Richard Hickox - Stabat Mater / Te Deum / Bible Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Act I, Scene 1 (Introduction)/Rosa Mystica - Yvonne Howard 2. Act I, Scene 1 Well... I'm Tired of Waiting! - Yvonne Howard 3. Act I, Scene 1 The Vision Has Begun - Spoleto Festival Choir 4. Act I, Scene 1 Ah, Sweet Jesus, Spare Me This Agony - Julia Melinek 5. Act I, Scene 1 Look! the Stigmata! - Spoleto Festival Choir 6. Act I, Scene 1 Stop It! - Spoleto Festival Choir 7. Act I, Scene 1 Ah, Poor Michele, It Is Not I Your Rival - John Marcus Bindel 8. Act I, Scene 1 (Interlude) - Richard Hickox 9. Act I, Scene 2 Canta Ninna, Canta Nanna Al Mio Bambino - Yvonne Howard 10. Act I, Scene 2 Annina, I've Something to Confess to You - Yvonne Howard 11. Act I, Scene 2 Annina, Annina! - Yvonne Howard 12. Act I, Scene 2 Michele, Michele! - Julia Melinek 13. Act I, Scene 2 Sister, I Shall Hide You and Take You Away - Julia Melinek 14. Act I, Scene 2 Veglia Su Di Noi, Santo Del Sangue - Julia Melinek 1. Act II (Introduction)/Hai L'occhio Nero, Nero Della Quaglia - Julia Melinek 2. Act II Where Is Michele? - Pamela Helen Stephen 3. Act II Eh Gia Giovinotti Voglion Stare Attorno a Te - Pamela Helen Stephen 4. Act II Ah, Michele, Don't You Know That Love Can Turn to Hate - Pamela Helen Stephen 5. Act II You Will Regret It - Julia Melinek 6. Act II I Know That You All Hate Me - Timothy Richards 7. Act II You Are Wrong, Michele - Julia Melinek 8. Act II Yes, Michele, Go Home, Go, Go... - Pamela Helen Stephen 9. Act III, Scene 1 (Introduction)/Stop Worrying, Annina - Julia Melinek 10. Act III, Scene 1 There She Is - Julia Melinek 11. Act III, Scene 1 Weeping, These, for Him, Are Days of Weeping - Julia Melinek 12. Act III, Scene 1 (Interlude) - Richard Hickox 13. Act III, Scene 2 Agnus Dei, Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi - Yvonne Howard 14. Act III, Scene 2 Annina, Annina, Prepare Yoursel

Haydn's masses are enjoying increased public awareness follwing Richard Hickox's superb performance at BBC concert with the forces of Collegium Musicum and the great success of his Haydn mass edition on Chandos. This the most openly tuneful of Haydn's masses. The work belongs to a distinct type of mass associated with Advent, often called a Pastoral Mass in the 18th Century catalogues. Album Tracks 1. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Kyrie 2. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Gloria in Excelsis Deo 3. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Gratias Agimus Tibi 4. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus 5. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Credo in Unum Deum 6. Mass in B Flat Major B-Dur Et Incarnatus Est 7. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Et Resurrexit 8. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Et Vitam Venturi Saeculi 9. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Sanctus 10. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Benedictus 11. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Agnus Dei 12. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Dona Nobis Pacem 13. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Kyrie 14. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Gloria in Excelsis Deo 15. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus 16. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Credo in Unum Deum 17. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Et Incarnatus Est 18. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Et Resurrexit 19. Mass in B Flat Major - Missa Sancti Bernardi Von Offida Sanctus 20. Mass in B Flat Maj

If Chopin 'invented' the Mazurka, then surely by the same token Grieg 'invented' the Lyric Piece. Over his lifetime he published ten volumes of Lyric Pieces, containing sixty-six individual works. Born in Bergen, Grieg studied in Leipzig and became established as Norway's leading composer, successfully synthesising Norwegian folk music with the forms and conventions of the German tradition. While he was internationally acclaimed for his Piano Concerto and the incidental music to Peer Gynt, the vast majority of his output lies not in large-scale works, but in smaller, more intimate forms, especially songs and, of course, his Lyric Pieces. Peter Donohoe writes 'as a teenager I expanded my knowledge of the music of Grieg to include many solo piano pieces as well as the better-known orchestral works. I was beguiled by his style, and the reason remains somewhat intangible. Although one is able to identify the originality of Grieg as a composer - the Norwegian folk element in his music, his natural gift for memorable melodic lines, his occasional diversions into unique and extraordinarily forward-looking harmonies, and, to some degree, his emotional naïveté - there is a unique, unidentifiable kernel in his output that defies analysis, as is true of the work of all the great composers... All these works are pristine examples of his diverse and original style - Norwegian with a Germanic flavour - and it has been a huge and satisfying pleasure to return to them to create this and future recordings.' Album Tracks 1. Lyric Pieces, Volume One 2. Klokkeklang, Op. 54 No. 6 (1891) 3. Hemmelighet, Op. 57 No. 4 (1893) 4. Albumblad, Op. 12 No. 7 (1866-67) 5. Vals, Op. 12 No. 2 (1866-67) 6. Bondens Sang, Op. 65 No. 2 (1896) 7. Gade, Op. 57 No. 2 (1893) 8. Skogstillhet, Op. 71 No. 4 (1901) 9. Til Våren, Op.43 No.6 (1886) 10. I Hjemmet, Op. 43 No. 3 (1886) 11. B