 | Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $9.99 Two of the greatest requiem masses ever composed on when disc. Matthew Best uses the chamber orchestra performances for these works and I'd have to say this is my favorite religious CD I own.
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 | Gregorian Chant
Buy used from: $2.96 My favorite album of Gregorian chant. I particularly like how nuns (women's voices)included in this Carmelite (a Roman Catholic religious order of friars, like the Franciscans) choir.
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 | Mozart: Requiem / Bonney, von Otter, Blochwitz, W. White, Gardiner by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.85 John Elliot Gardiner is another of my favorite conductors for Sacred, Christian works.
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 | Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.54 Ethereal spiritual singing.
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 | Brahms: Motets
Buy used from: $7.40 If you like Brahms' Requiem, try these works out as well.
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 | Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $14.48 Sacred choral music by one of the founders of modern opera.
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 | A Feather on the Breath of God
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $6.12 Award winning CD that put this Medieval nun on the map.
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![Hildegard Von Bingen: 11,000 Virgins [Hybrid SACD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y6MWCPEJL._SL75_.jpg) | Hildegard Von Bingen: 11,000 Virgins [Hybrid SACD]
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $7.98 |
 | Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias / Myung-Whun Chung by George Frideric Handel
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $1.04 Andrea Bocelli sings famous Christian hymns, including Franz Schubert's Ave Maria.
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 | Verdi: Requiem
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $4.99 A great one volume CD of Verdi's highly melodramatic requiem mass.
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 | Berlioz - Sacred Music (L'Enfance du Christ · Requiem) · Symphony Dramas (Roméo et Juliette · La damnation de Faust) · Orchestral Songs (Les nuits dété · Lélio · La mort de Cléopâtre) / Sir Colin Davis by Hector Berlioz
Buy used from: $79.99 My favorite work on here is the Requiem mass. It is not as good as say Mozart, Faure or Brahms' requiem masses, but it approaches Verdi's with a sense of bombast. Berlioz's mass relies on high drama and use of the brass section
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 | Bruckner: Die 3 Messen/Masses Nos. 1-3/Les Messes
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $7.29 A classic account of this devout composer's masses.
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 | Bruckner: Requiem; Psalms 112 and 114
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | Cherubini: Requiem in C minor; Marche funèbre
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $12.98 |
 | Russian Church Music
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $6.00 Hymns & chants from the Russian Orthodox Church. The ensemble is an American group whose specializes in Orthodox chants.
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 | Rachmaninov: The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31
Buy used from: $5.57 Perhaps some might not like this English choir compared to a Slavic one but Matthew Best & his Corydon Singers where the ones who really got meet hooked on the great choral music of Christianity. The singing is very clear & defined and the sound is wonderful.
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 | Rachmaninov: Vespers
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $6.82 |
 | Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrystosom
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $15.78 For those of you familiar only with works like "The Nutcracker", the 1812 Overture, or his 6th Symphony, you own it to yourself to explore this gem of a disc.
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 | The Glory of Byzantium by Lycourgos Angelopoulos
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.96 A great disc of classic chants of the Greek Orthodox church.
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 | The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Buy used from: $51.73 The Divine Liturgy (or Mass) of the Greek Orthodox Church.
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 | Stravinsky:Symphony of Psalms/Mass/Canticum Sacrum
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $10.87 A great album of modern, 20th century sacred music.
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 | Chant Maronite
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $42.36 If you have a taste for Middle Eastern music, this is chants from the Maronite Church in Lebanon, a national church within the Roman Catholic communion.
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 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli; Missa Brevis
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $10.28 The greatest composer of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
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 | Allegri: Miserere by Alison Stamp
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $15.58 The piece which was copyrighted by the Vatican but a young Mozart memorized just by listening to it and then gave it to the world.
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 | The Essential Tallis Scholars
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $13.10 An anthology of music by this famous early music choir.
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![Antonio Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FZWGCGHKL._SL75_.jpg) | Antonio Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music [Box Set]
Buy new: $131.98 / Used from: $105.23 Yep. Vivaldi composed more than just fast-slow-fast concertos. Gorgeous music of the Italian Baroque, including his Gloria & Magnificat.
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![Bach: Sacred Vocal Works [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q3PZQNF1L._SL75_.jpg) | Bach: Sacred Vocal Works [Box Set]
Buy new: $71.98 / Used from: $34.99 A great way of owning these critically acclaimed performances of Bach's major choral works.
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 | Bach: Magnificat, BWV. 243; Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.70 I don't think this Philips disc is included in the DG box set I recommend above.
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 | Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.98 Modern Christian music in the great tradition of Anglican church music.
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 | John Rutter: Music for Christmas by Polyphony
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $12.99 One of my favorite Christmas albums. Like the Corydon Singers, Polyphony is paving the way for the Hyperion label with great Christian choral music.
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