Music To Live By

Tonight I found myself needing a reminder of why I love the music I do. My reminder playlist consisted of the following:

Robert White- Magnificat [Tallis Scholars recording]

Palestrina- the 'Kyrie' from Missa Papae Marcelli [Tallis Scholars recording]

Dufay- Nuper rosarum flores [The Song Company recording]

Lotti- Crucifixus [on The Sixteen- Music for Inner Peace recording]

Palestrina- the 'Credo' from Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas [I'm a sucker for the Tallis Scholars recording]

Alonso Lobo- Versa est in luctum [TSSS 2006 Seattle recording. so flawed, but soooo heartfelt and good : )]

Allegri- Miserere [choir of King's College, Cambridge recording]

Cornysh- Magnificat [a video of a friend of mine singing - just youtube it]

Victoria- Missa pro defunctis [Armonico Consort]

Victoria - O magnum mysterium [Cambridge Singers]

Josquin-Ave Maria [Westminster Choir]

Josquin- 'Sanctus and Benedictus' from Missa Pange Lingua [Tallis Scholars...seriously...the pleni sunt coeli over and over and over again]

anddddd Tavener-Hymn to the Mother of God - [The Sixteen recording]

and Michael Head-The Ships of Arcady - [Ely cathedral choir]
Mike Fili- Psalm 4 [WCC composer's choir : ) ]
Charpentier- Alma Redemptoris Mater [Emmanuel Mandrin]
Charpentier- Gaude Felix Anna [Emmanuel Mandrin- Grace et grandeurs de la Vierge]
Buxtehude-Quid sunt plagae from Membra Jesu Nostri [Bach Collegium Japan recording]
Strauss- Im Abendtrot [Arleen Auger recording]
Grieg- Erotik [Leif Oves Andsnes recording]