SCHUBERT
Sacred Music (Incls Stabat Mater in G minor & Magnificat in C major) Celina Lindsley (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Walton Gronroos (bass) / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchestra / Marcus Creed [ Capriccio SACD / SACD - released 29/Sep/2005 ] "The performances of all concerned invites considerable praise and when combined with the integrity of Schubert's music this becomes a very desirable release." (MusicWeb June 2005) |
SCHUMANN
Schumann - Der Rose Pilgerfahrt Christiane Oelze, sop. Birgit Remmert, alt. Werner Gara, ten. RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] Considered by W. Siegmund-Schultze as 'formally the most perfect of Schumann's choral compositions', The Pilgrimage of the Rose was composed in 1851, a few months after the composer had received a manuscript from the poet Moritz Horn with a subject... |
Creed
Full Circle [ EMI Music / CD - released 9/Nov/2009 ] This is Creed's first album of new material since the release of 'Weathered' in November 2001 - featuring "Overcome", the pounding "Rain" and heartfelt ballad, "Away in Silence". |
Creed
Human Clay [ Wind-Up Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2009 ] Originally released in 1999, 'Human Clay' is the excellent second album from American rock band, Creed - featuring great songs such as "With Arms Wide Open", "Are You Ready" and "Higher". |
Creed
With Arms Wide Open - A Retrospective (3CD) [ 3 CD - released 4/Dec/2015 ] The all-new Creed compilation entitled With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective is now available. The three-CD 40-song heritage set features the radio singles from all four of Creed's studio albums and collects for the first time all the band's... |
Creed Taylor Orchestra
Shock And Panic [ Righteous / CD - released 13/Apr/2010 ] |
HANDEL
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Dixit Dominus Helene Guilmette (sop) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Malcolm E.Bennet (ten) Andreas Wolf (bass) / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "The choral work is excellent, stylistically apropos, and executed with requisite flair and energy. With these two pieces such an interesting coupling...the clear and spacious sound is only an added incentive." ***** Five stars AudAud.com (Oct 2009) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Jephtha - oratorio in three acts John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (bass) Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano) RIA Kammerchor . Akademie fer Alte Musik Berlin. Marcus Creed [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "this new recording, at super budget price, allows us to appreciate a new team of soloists. And for those who do not know this moving work, this new recording is a good place to start exploring." (MusicWeb July 2003) |
CHARLES IVES
Psalms (complete) Kay Johannsen (organ) / SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart / Marcus Creed [ Hanssler / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] This fine collection is a revelation in performances like these from the outstanding Stuttgart choir under its British conductor." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice March 2009 |
ROSSINI
Stabat Mater Krassimira Stoyanova / Petra Lang / Bruce Fowler / Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Marcus Creed favours period instruments and a chamber choir, and with sound that is lucid and spacious the results are highly appealing." Five Stars BBC Music Magazine |
BRUCKNER
Mass in E Minor / Motets SWR Vokalensemble / Marcus Creed [ Hanssler SACD / SACD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] "Beautifully recorded as the Stuttgart singers are in the motets, they seem marginally more distant in the Mass…" Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 |
BRAHMS
Sacred Choral Music: Geistliche Chormusik RIAS Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The RIAS Chamber Choir produce a fine quality of homogenous tone and, under Marcus Creed, show themselves fully responsive to both words and music.The RIAS disc remains a strong recommendation, especially for its inclusion of the surviving Missa... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Nachtgesang RIAS Kammerchor, Martin Creed, with Birgit Remmert & Werner Gura [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Whether it be cheerful, melancholy, amorous or piously contemplative, the night - a favorite source of romantic inspiration if ever there was one - is the unbroken thread running throughout this recording on which we will find monumental pieces like... |
KRENEK
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae RIAS-Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] When Ernst Krenek wrote these Lamentations in 1941, his music had been banned by the Nazi regime as 'degenerate art' and he was an exile in the United States, where he earned his living as a teacher. Ingeniously combining the polyphonic tradition and... |
MENDELSSOHN
Motets : Psalm 100, Missa breve RIAS-Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Sep/2000 ] One of the very last works of Felix Mendelssohn! |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Sacred & Profane (with works by Elgar, Stanford & Vaughan Williams) RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] From Elgar's 'Partsongs' (1904) to one of Britten's very last works, 'Sacred and Profane' (1975), here are some of the most beautiful pieces in the English a capella repertoire, many of them rarely recorded. All the composers here show the... |
J. S. BACH
Motets, BWV225-230 Richard Myron (violin), Jan Freiheit (cello) & Tobias Schade (organ) / Vocalconsort Berlin, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The present recording makes a first-rate impression in every category, from the thoughtful programming to the exemplary performances to the vibrant, clear, naturally balanced sound." (10/10 ClassicsToday March 2011) |
MISSA
Les plus belles messes de l'histoire musicale: the finest masses in musical history Soloists / Choeur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale / RIAS-Kammerchor / Philippe Herrewege / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] From the contrapuntal summits of the Renaissance to the great solemn Masses of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, from Romantic renewal to contemporary disillusion: Harmonia mundi invite you to discover generous excerpts from the Masses that have made history! |
ROBERT WHITE / ROBERT PARSONS / ORLANDO GIBBONS / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / etc
Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey Stile Antico / Marcus Creed And Rias Kammerchor / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Mark Padmore / Fretwork / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Resonances / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle Krassimira Stoyanova, Birgit Remmert, Steve Davislim, Hanno MAller-Brachmann / RIAS-Kammerchor, Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD/Book - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "The soloists are as compelling-bright, fresh voices appealing in timbre and aware of the implications of the texts they're singing. Minor reservations aside, Rossinians won't want to miss this one." (ClassicsToday.com) |