Choral Music reccomendations.

Hi-FiGuy · Sep 25, 2016

I am looking for some thoughts/suggestions on choral music, non operatic.

Can't hang with Opera yet, working on it, but not there yet, actually not even close. As my mom and dad used to say about my Rock N Roll, "It all sounds the same to me".

What I am looking for is music that is vocal multi layered, harmonic, dimensional, but not all out chants.

Any suggestions with possible links would be amazing!

TIA

Mike

Kal Rubinson · Sep 25, 2016

Not mainstream but one of my favorites:

NorthStar · Sep 25, 2016

Click on it ? for samples.

* https://www.amazon.com/Romaria-Choir-Gonville-Caius-College/dp/B00U6WUH5A

NorthStar · Sep 25, 2016

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Mike Lavigne · Sep 25, 2016

listening to this Lp right now. RR-57, Lp and CD.

great sound. soundstage from horizon to horizon......wonderful ambience and bass energy. no edge or brightness from the massed voices......natural and sweet. you are welcome to visit for a listen if you are so inclined.

the cool part of this RR recording is it's tape sourced. Prof. Johnson did not get his hirez sickness until later when he started to use a digital source for his Lps.

NorthStar · Sep 26, 2016

I have that ? album too Mike, on CD (HDCD encoded).
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Also:

Same with different picture cover ?

ack · Sep 26, 2016

Mike Lavigne said:
listening to this Lp right now. RR-57, Lp and CD.

great sound. soundstage from horizon to horizon......wonderful ambience and bass energy. no edge or brightness from the massed voices......natural and sweet. you are welcome to visit for a listen if you are so inclined.

the cool part of this RR recording is it's tape sourced. Prof. Johnson did not get his hirez sickness until later when he started to use a digital source for his Lps.

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This recording probably has the widest and deepest soundstage I have ever heard

LL21 · Sep 26, 2016

I am with you on Opera...not there yet. But big fan of Handel and Bach mass choral music. Bach - Mass in B Minor (John Eliot Gardener), Handel's Messiah (Sir Christopher Hogwood is the one that started ALL choral music for me) or Neville Marinner. If you like either, keep exploring the choral music from either...i have most if not all of the choral works of both. On a system with low distortion a good scale, it presents both the small nuances and the magnificence at once which is fun both musically and in terms of the audiophile kicks of enjoying the system and what it can do...

NorthStar · Sep 26, 2016

Speaking of Operas, I love the Opera singers...males and females...sopranos and tenors. It is the most powerful and emotional musical instrument of them all...the voice's timbres. Choral music is extremely soothing and closer to heaven.
Classical music is the real stuff.
I get way more soul satisfaction listening to those genres than RAP music, or Heavy Hard Metal Punk music with yelling and vulgar lyrics.
I'm from the romance genre, my blood runs more lighter, more liquid when pumping into my heart. :b

Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin are fine too, just on a different level. Same for Billie Holiday and John Coltrane and Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.

Simon Moon · Sep 26, 2016

Some good recommendations so far.

I'm happy to see that they are all modern woks. I am a member of talkclassical.com forums, and the vast majority of the people there are mostly fans of old works. It gets boring there always seeing the same old warhorse recommendations.

Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna

Barry2013 · Sep 26, 2016

LL21 said:
I am with you on Opera...not there yet. But big fan of Handel and Bach mass choral music. Bach - Mass in B Minor (John Eliot Gardener), Handel's Messiah (Sir Christopher Hogwood is the one that started ALL choral music for me) or Neville Marinner. If you like either, keep exploring the choral music from either...i have most if not all of the choral works of both. On a system with low distortion a good scale, it presents both the small nuances and the magnificence at once which is fun both musically and in terms of the audiophile kicks of enjoying the system and what it can do...

Like you a big fan of Handel and Messiah in particular. Have the Paul McCreesh and Emmanuelle Haim CDs. Both very good and the lyrics clearer on the latter,
Neville and Andrew Marriner's Pentatone SACD of Mozart's Clarinet Concertos in K622 and 581 arrived today. Very good. It is also multichannel SACD for those unlike me who have the right kit-PTC5186 048 A lovely expressive and flowing recording.

microstrip · Sep 26, 2016

If you want modern choral music you can not forget the Gyorgy Ligeti Requiem. https://www.amazon.com/Requiem-LIGETI-GYORGY/dp/B000025QZQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1474929558&sr=8-2&keywords=ligeti+requiemThe Aventures et nouvelles aventures music-drama is also a challenging but beautiful music - you should listen to it with closed doors!

jeff1225 · Sep 26, 2016

Don't forget Arvo Part!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtdKBOebO5E

opus112 · Sep 26, 2016

Brahms German Requiem.

GaryProtein · Sep 26, 2016

Many recordings of Carmina Burana - Carl Orff ---- I like the Andre Previn and Seiji Ozawa recordings best. The Previn has the best orchestra and the Ozawa has the best chorus. Both are excellent all around.

Turtle Creek Chorale - Psalms - Reference Recordings ---- I'm not at all religious, but this is a beautiful choral recording. Also has really great bass in the organ accompaniment. (make sure your art work is firmly mounted on your walls)

RBFC · Sep 26, 2016

Although certainly not "modern", the Tallis Scholars gave a refreshing take on the Allegri Miserere:

The famous solo/chorus "call & response" chant is hypnotic here, with the traditional solo female part being sung by a young boy. Tremendous cathedral ambience and good sound too.

I understand that the Tallis Scholars have redone this recording for Blu-ray Audio, with a multichannel high-res recording. The antiphonal sections can be clearly delineated, just as the four organ consoles in the famous Bach organ recording on Sony SACD.

Lee

NorthStar · Sep 26, 2016

Billy Shears · Sep 27, 2016

When it comes to Choral music there is only one game in town for me: Ola gjeilo

Hi-FiGuy · Sep 28, 2016

Well I am going to be stuck in the rabbit hole for a bit!
Wife thinks I am bat poop crazy, but its where I am at, at the moment.
Thankee Si for all the suggestions so far, just getting my feet wet in all this.

Mike, without a doubt I need to hear that on your kit.

Don't be shy keep em coming!

LL21 · Sep 29, 2016

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