Relaxing Classics: The Healing Power of the Voice

Escape to a calmer place, refreshed by the expressive storytelling of the human voice, with this selection of beautiful classics.

Tracklisting:

CD1
MOZART Ave, verum corpus
PURCELL Music for a While
JS BACH Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring) from Cantata No. 147
LA RUE O salutaris hostia
BYRD Ave verum corpus
SCHUBERT Sanctus from German Mass, D872
JS BACH Schafe können sicher weiden (Sheep May Safely Graze) from Cantata No. 208
TRAD arr. Weatherly Danny Boy
FAURÉ In paradisum from Requiem
JOSQUIN DES PREZ Ave Maria, virgo serena
ANON. PLAINCHANT Veni, veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)
RACHMANINOFF Svete tihiy (Gladsome Light) from Vespers (All-Night Vigil)
RACHMANINOFF Slava v vïshnih Bogu (Glory to God in the Highest) from Vespers (All-Night Vigil)
HUGHES Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
JS BACH Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust (Contented Rest, Beloved Inner Joy) from Cantata No. 170
GRIEG Ave maris stella (Hail, Star of the Sea)
A GABRIELI O sacrum convivium
VICTORIA O magnum mysterium
PARSONS Ave Maria
RACHMANINOFF Bogoroditse Devo (Virgin, Mother of God) from Vespers (All-Night Vigil)

CD2
JS BACH / GOUNOD Ave Maria
CANTELOUBE Uno jionto postouro (A Fair Shepherd Lass) from Songs of the Auvergne
MOZART Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Rest Gently, My Dear One) from Zaide 
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Infinite Shining Heavens from Songs of Travel
GOUNOD Sérénade
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Silent Noon
TRAD. arr. Grainger Brigg Fair
JS BACH Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen (Sleep, Dull Eyes) from Cantata BWV82
HANDEL Verdi prati (Green Pastures) from Alcina
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO La guitarra (The Guitar) from Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads)
LAURIDSEN O magnum mysterium
CANTELOUBE Pastourelle (Pastoral) from Songs of the Auvergne
FAURÉ Pie Jesu from Requiem
MONTÉCLAIR O Toi, Déesse de Cithère, tendre Vénus (O Thou, Goddess of Cytherea, Tender Venus) from The Death of Dido
PALMER Our Father from Mass ‘A Child is Born’
TRAD. She Moved Through the Fair
MONTEVERDI Pur ti miro (I Gaze Upon You) from The Coronation of Poppea 
HARRIS Bring Us, O Lord God

Featuring performances by Sara Macliver, Yvonne Kenny, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Sally-Anne Russell, Paul McMahon, Annalisa Kerrigan, Fiona Campbell, Cantillation, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Catalogue Number: 476 4075