Leclair: The Choral Collection

Title: The Choral Collection
Artist: Leclair
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313329830
Genre: Classical Artists

This album marks a milestone in the extensive discography of the Hagen Quartett - myrios classics is honoured to present their first recording of a Brahms string quartet. The quartet op. 67 is paired with Brahms' piano quintet op. 34. Here, the Hagen Quartett is joined by their regular collaborator, pianist Kirill Gerstein. The unprecedented three-decade career of the Hagen Quartet began in 1981. It's early years, marked by a series of prizes in chamber music competitions and an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon that was to produce around forty-five albums over the following twenty years, enabled the group to work it's way through the virtually un- limited quartet repertoire from which the distinctive profile of the Hagens has emerged. Collaborations with artistic personalities such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and György Kurtág are as important to the Hagen Quartet as it's concert appearances with performers including Maurizio Pollini, Mitsuko Uchida, Sabine Meyer, Krystian Zimerman, Heinrich Schiff and Jörg Widmann. The group's concert repertoire and discography feature attractive and intelligently arranged programmes embracing the entire history of the string quartet, from it's pre-Haydn beginnings right through to Kurtág. The Hagen Quartet also works closely with composers of it's own generation, whether by reviving existing works or by commissioning and premiering new pieces.

Tracks:
1.1 Agricola: Fortuna Desperata - Secular Music of the 15th Century 8.553840
2.1 Arnesen: Infinity: Choral Works 8.573788
3.1 Beethoven: Der Glorreiche Augenblick - Choral Fantasy 8.572783
4.1 Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem 8.572996
5.1 Cherubini: Requiem No. 1 - Marche Funebre 8.554749
6.1 Donizetti: Aristea 8.573360
7.1 Dvorák: Requiem 8.572874-75
8.1 Fauré: Requiem / Messe Basse 8.550765
9.1 Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 4 8.572137
10.1 Handel: Messiah (Highlights) 8.553258
11.1 Haydn: Missa Brevis - Harmoniemesse 8.572126
12.1 Janacek: Glagolitic Mass - Sinfonietta 8.572639
13.1 Lassus: St Matthew Passion 8.573840
14.1 Léonin ; Pérotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral 8.557340
15.1 Mayr: Te Deum - Mozart: Missa Solemnis 8.570926
16.1 Mozart: Requiem 8.557728
17.1 Palestrina: Missa Sine Nomine - Missa L'homme Arme 8.553314
18.1 PÄRT: Passio (ST. John Passion) 8.555860
19.1 Penderecki, K.: Utrenja 8.572031
20.1 Purcell: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day - Te Deum 8.553444
21.1 Rachmaninov: Vespers 8.555908
22.1 Rossini: Stabat Mater (1832 Version) - Giovanna D'arco 8.573531
23.1 Rutter: Requiem - Anthems 8.557130
24.1 Schumann, R.: Romances and Ballads 8.570456
25.1 Vanhal: Missa Pastoralis - Missa Solemnis 8.555080
26.1 Vivaldi: Gloria - Bach: Magnificat 8.554056
27.1 Hildegard Von Bingen: Celestial Harmonies - Responsories and Antiphons 8.557983
28.1 Whitacre: Choral Music 8.559677
29.1 English Madrigals and Songs 8.553088