Favourite Sacred Masterpieces ~ CD ~ Various

Favourite Sacred Masterpieces Naxos 8.578210 Composer(s): Allegri, Gregorio; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Franck, Cesar; Gounod, Charles-Francois; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista; Tallis, Thomas Lyricist(s): Aquinas, Thomas; Bible – New Testament; Bible – Old Testament; Pope Innocents III; Todi, Jacopone da Conductor(s): Halasz, Michael; Kovacs, Laszlo; Summerly, Jeremy; Wildner, Johannes Orchestra(s): Camerata Cassovia Ensemble(s): Camerata Budapest; Oxford Camerata Choir(s): Hungarian State Opera Chorus; Kosice Teachers' Choir Artist(s): Faulkner, Julia; Gonda, Anna; Kertesi, Ingrid; Mukk, Jozsef Some of the world’s greatest sacred masterpieces are heard on this disc, performed by some of the world’s leading vocal ensembles. The journey ranges from Thomas Tallis’s extra­ordinary Spem in alium to César Franck’s immortal Panis angelicus. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater is a masterpiece of the early eighteenth century. Mozart, who as a 14-year-old had copied out Allegri’s Miserere from memory, is represented by his beautiful Ave verum corpus. It is impossible to omit the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria from a journey that crosses geographical borders and spans the centuries.