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Spem in Alium

Thomas Tallis's Spem in alium is a Latin motet for forty independent voices, arranged as eight choirs of five parts each...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Tallis

9.2 Excellent

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Missa Papae Marcelli

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli is a six-voice setting of the Latin Mass Ordinary, published in...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.2 Excellent

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Officium Defunctorum (Victoria)

Tomás Luis de Victoria's Officium Defunctorum is a collection of music for the Catholic Office and Mass for the Dead, pu...

Renaissance Sacred Victoria A Cappella

9.2 Excellent

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Missa Pange Lingua (Josquin)

Josquin des Prez's Missa Pange lingua is a four-voice setting of the Mass Ordinary based on the plainsong hymn Pange lin...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.2 Excellent

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Ave Maria... virgo serena (Josquin)

Ave Maria... virgo serena is a four-voice Latin motet by Josquin des Prez, probably composed during the late fifteenth c...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Josquin

9.2 Excellent

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All-Night Vigil Op. 37 (Rachmaninoff)

Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, is an unaccompanied choral setting of texts from the Russian Orthodox eve...

Modern Sacred A Cappella Rachmaninoff

9.2 Excellent

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Motets BWV 225-230 (Bach)

The motets BWV 225-230 are six choral works traditionally grouped under Johann Sebastian Bach's name, although the authe...

Baroque Sacred A Cappella Bach

9.2 Excellent

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Sicut Cervus

Sicut cervus is a four-voice Latin motet by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, first published in the sixteenth century....

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Palestrina

9.1 Excellent

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O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)

O magnum mysterium is a four-voice Latin motet by the Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in...

Renaissance Sacred Victoria A Cappella

9.1 Excellent

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Mass for Five Voices (Byrd)

William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices is an unaccompanied Latin setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, probably composed dur...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.1 Excellent

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Missa Prolationum (Ockeghem)

Johannes Ockeghem's Missa Prolationum is a Renaissance polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary, probably composed in the...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.1 Excellent

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Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 (Bach)

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, first performed in Leipzig in 17...

Music Baroque Orchestral Sacred

9.1 Excellent

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Mass for Four Voices (Byrd)

William Byrd's Mass for Four Voices is an unaccompanied Latin setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, probably composed dur...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.0 Excellent

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Tenebrae Responsories (Gesualdo)

Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories are three sets of sacred vocal works published in 1611 for the services of Maundy...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Gesualdo

9.0 Excellent

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Musikalische Exequien

Musikalische Exequien is a German-language funeral composition by Heinrich Schutz, published in 1636 and written for the...

Baroque Sacred A Cappella Requiem

8.9 Great

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Penitential Psalms (Lasso)

The Penitential Psalms by Orlando di Lasso are Renaissance polyphonic settings of the seven psalms traditionally associa...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Psalm

8.8 Great

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Lux Aeterna (Ligeti)

Lux Aeterna is an unaccompanied choral work composed by György Ligeti in 1966 for a mixed choir divided into 16 independ...

Modern Sacred A Cappella Ligeti

8.8 Great

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Figure Humaine (Poulenc)

Figure humaine is a secular cantata for unaccompanied double mixed chorus composed by Francis Poulenc in 1943 during the...

Modern Secular A Cappella Poulenc

8.7 Great

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Missa L'homme armé (Dufay)

Guillaume Dufay's Missa L'homme armé is a Renaissance polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary, probably composed during...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

8.6 Great

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Geistliche Chormusik (Schütz)

Geistliche Chormusik is a collection of 29 German sacred motets by Heinrich Schütz, published in Dresden in 1648. Writte...

Baroque Sacred A Cappella Schutz

8.6 Great