Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide

Adams: Harmonium -- Bach: The Passions (saint John Passion, Saint Matthew Passion); Magnificat; Mass In B Minor -- Beethoven: Missa Solemnis -- Berlioz: Requiem -- Brahms: A German Requiem; The Shorter Choral Works (schicksalslied = Song Of Destiny, Nänie = Lament, Gesang Der Parzen = Song Of The Fates) -- Britten: War Requiem -- Cherubini: Requiem In C Minor -- Dallapiccola: Canti Di Prigonia = Songs Of Captivity -- Dvořák: Stabat Mater -- Elgar: The Dream Of Gerontius -- Fauré: Requiem -- Handel: Messiah, Der Messias (arr. Mozart) -- Haydn: Harmoniemesse (wind-band Mass); Two Great Oratorios (der Schopfung = The Creation; Die Jahreszeiten = The Seasons) -- Honegger: Le Roi David = King David -- Janáček: Glagolitic Mass -- Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus -- Mendelssohn: Elias = Elijah -- Mozart: The Shorter Choral Works; Mass In C Minor; Requiem -- Orff: Carmina Burana -- Rachmaninoff: The Bells -- Schmidt: Das Buch Mit Sieben Siegeln = The Book With Seven Seals -- Sessions: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd -- Stravinsky: The Wedding, Perséphone, Symphony Of Psalms, Mass, Canticum Sacrum = Scared Canticle, Requiem Canticles -- Tippett: A Child Of Our Time -- Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony, Sancta Civitas -- Verdi: Requiem -- Walton: Belshazzar's Feast -- Wuorinen: Genesis. Michael Steinberg.