Track Listing

1. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Dies irae
2. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Tuba mirum
3. Requiem, for orchestra, organ & chorus; for organ & chorus; for small ensemble, organ & chorus, Op. 9 (3 versions): Pie Jesu
4. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: O Fortuna
5. Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Dies irae
6. Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Rex tremendae
7. Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Confutatis
8. Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626: Lacrimosa
9. Prince Igor, opera (completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov): Polovtsian Dances
10. Mass in B minor, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, BWV 232 (BC E1): Missa: Kyrie eleison
11. Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus
12. L' Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchetsra ('trilogie sacrée') H. 130 (Op. 25): The
13. Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: Sanctus
14. Die Schöpfung (The Creation), oratorio, H. 21/2: The Heavens are Telling
15. Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
16. Vespers (All-Night Vigil), for alto, tenor & chorus, Op. 37: Nyne Otpushchayeshi (Now Let Thy Servant Depart)
17. Requiem (Grande Messe des morts), for tenor, chorus & orchestra, H. 75 (Op. 5): Dies Irae

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37086 in Music
• Brand: Shaw
• Released on: 1995-01-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Best of American Choral Singing!
This CD could be the cornerstone of your choral music library! Wonderful performances of all of the essential choral pieces give a wonderful introduction to choral music for someone new to it, and also give a nice sampler of the best pieces for someone already familiar with the music. Listening to each excerpt may inspire you to purchase the entire work!

As you would expect of performances by Robert Shaw's groups, these performances are really extraordinary and show the best of American choral singing.

A good album, but--
The three stars I have given this album are not for the performances, which are all tremendous and deserve five stars or more, but for the idea of releasing this sort of compilation. Every single one of these selections is part of a larger Shaw-recorded work already released by Telarc, and you are far better off seeking the complete recordings that all these pieces are from, than just buying a mere "sampler". (Shaw, however, never did get around to recording the complete " L' Enfance du Christ".) Of course, that can be very expensive for some people, and if one cannot afford all those recordings, I suppose this is the next best thing. One can't shake off the feeling, however, that because Shaw is no longer with us, Telarc is desperately trying to give the impression that "new" Shaw recordings are constantly being released by them, when the truth is that nearly all the new ones are mere recyclings. (The last complete Robert Shaw album released by Telarc was Dvorak's "Stabat Mater", a CD well worth buying.)

I made my son listen to it !!!
A wonderful album. I have several copies of Handel's Messiah, but the performance of the Hallelujah Chorus by Robert Shaw's singers is exceptional, outstanding. I was inspired to have my young son listen to this album: Verdi's "Dies Irae", Orff's "O Fortuna", and Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus".

Notice that there are 3 versions of "Dies Irae" on this album. It's nice to hear others. I am not normally a fan of Requiems. I will say that I do like Bach's Mass in B Minor and the Kyrie Eleison excerpted here is beautiful.