Choir of New College Oxford/ Higginbottom.Edward - Agnus Dei Condition:New and the Royal Academy of

and the Royal Academy of Music directed by the Frenchman Cambert

Lortzing's music was still very popular in my childhood in the 1960s and 70s and such a staple in opera houses and in the media that his music accompanied me in my musical development as a natural part of the canon of classical music

envisioned as a soundtrack for a fictional film

The sound of this fortepiano from the period around 1820 captivates the listener with it's special color in the various registers and it's elegant purity while already discreetly looking into the future with it's somewhat greater volume

Choir of New College Oxford/ Higginbottom.Edward - Agnus Dei Condition:New and the Royal Academy ofThis richly varied collection of meditative sacred music takes it's name, Agnus Dei, from the opening item, a setting for voices of Samuel Barber's celebrated and deeply expressive Adagio for Strings. The hauntingly melodic choral masterpieces that fill these two vinyls span five centuries and are the work of such composers as Bach, Mozart, Allegri, Albinoni, Faur, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Elgar and, from nearer our own time, John Tavener and