Motets

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0730099595629
Label : Ncl
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1997-07-31
Running Time : 62minutes
UPC : 730099595629

ASIN : B000001415

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Os justi
2. Locus iste
3. Libera me (f, 1854)
4. Ave maria
5. Ecce sacerdos
6. Vexilla regis
7. Salvum fac populum tuum (1884)
8. Afferentur regi
9. Pange lingua
10. Tota pulchra es
11. Virga Jesse
12. Inveni David
13. Iam lucis orto sidere (Hymnus, 1868)
14. Tantum ergo (D, 1888)
15. Christus factus est

Customer Reviews

Heaven on Earth (2003-09-29)

I bought this cd because I wanted these motets all on one disc. Too bad for the other Ryan who put this disc away. The recording is of the highest I have ever heard from Naxos, and which helps even more is that it is recorded in a church (with fantastic acoustics), and sung by the church's own professional choir. It feels as if Bruckner has authorized this himself. The sounds that emerge are clean, clear and beautifully gorgeous. When I first listened to them, I really couldn't believe what I was listening to. I had to stop what I was doing because these motets moved me so much and to the greatest heights that I couldn't believe these sounds were created for the human ear! I also have Jochum doing them, and have heard the Matthew Best recordings but these spoke to me in such a way that I thought that I was listening to miracles! From what I know these are the only complete motets available on one disc. Experiencing these pieces is like being cleansed from all impurities. I seriously urge you to invest in this disc. (I hope the other Ryan reconsiders)

Poor performance of Great music (2001-12-31)

Listening to Bruckner's motets can be very enjoyable. I purchased this CD with high anticipation. Unfortunately, the choir's performance left much to be desired. Poor tuning, strained voices, and a lack of attention to sonority and nuance encouraged me to shelve this CD and look for a replacement.

Poor performance of Great music (2001-12-31)

Listening to Bruckner's motets can be very enjoyable. I purchased this CD with high anticipation. Unfortunately, the choir's performance left much to be desired. Poor tuning, strained voices, and a lack of attention to sonority and nuance encouraged me to shelve this CD and look for a replacement.

Naxos does it again . . . (2001-12-12)

The smaller Bruckner choral works are marvelous pieces, and despite the admiration they engender from choral affaciandos, they are underrepresented in the catalog. In this recording, the Choir of St. Bride's Church (London) give a warm, beautiful accounting of these gems. Particularly fine is the first track, Os justi.

In my mind, the Bruckner motets are optimally performed with a larger choir; but the twelve members of the St. Bride's choir sing admirably well, and their numbers are probably more in line with the forces Bruckner actually had at St. Florian's.

Give it a try - for the price you can't go wrong . . .

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