Carus-Verlag's excellent Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Herr Gott, dich loben wir makes its bow in 2009, the bicentenary of Mendelssohn's birth. Even a reasonably casual classical music listener might be surprised to learn just how much Mendelssohn they might have gained without really trying, as his symphonic works, the most popular pieces among the Songs without Words and even the oratorio Elijah, are so generally prevalent in Western literature. But things like his choral/orchestral psalm settings, sacred cantatas, and ...
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Carus-Verlag's excellent Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Herr Gott, dich loben wir makes its bow in 2009, the bicentenary of Mendelssohn's birth. Even a reasonably casual classical music listener might be surprised to learn just how much Mendelssohn they might have gained without really trying, as his symphonic works, the most popular pieces among the Songs without Words and even the oratorio Elijah, are so generally prevalent in Western literature. But things like his choral/orchestral psalm settings, sacred cantatas, and other church music aren't exactly at the top of the Mendelssohn hit parade, even as they are recorded with some frequency. Perhaps some of these things should be, judging from the fine performances they receive under the care of conductor Frieder Bernius, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in this collection. This Carus-Verlag disc is subtitled "Church Music IX" and corresponds to a series of CDs that also represent volumes in a comprehensive printed...
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