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It seems that in all of my query type posts, I am looking for some type of "must have" list. This time I am dreaming of a "must have" list of quality Catholic music. Or I am wondering if anyone has special favorite recordings they can recommend. I am looking for traditional Catholic hymns and also Latin classics which are beautifully orchestrated with terrific arrangements and fabulous voices. I am not really looking for Gregorian chant so much as I am looking more for later rennaissance, baroque and classical music.
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I know there have been previous threads, so I'll do a search, but IMHO you can't go wrong with Richard Proulx and his choir for many types of traditional Catholic music.
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Interesting I did see the name, Richard Proulx as I was perusing music online. I appreciate the recommendation. Thx!
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I can't think of a specific recording, but any Mass by Josquin des Pres would be a must, in my book -- he was the first serious composer of polyphony. A dear friend of ours credits an Ave Maria of Josquin's for his own conversion to Catholicism.
I have a recording of Tomas Luis da Victoria's music -- "O Magnum Mysterium" and the whole Mass setting that goes with that (famous "Ave Maria"), plus "O Quam Gloriosum" . . . it's by the Oxford Pro Musica, and I'm trying to think of the label . . . begins with an N . . . most of my CDs are packed right now, so I can't look it up! Oh, now I remember: Naxos. Anyway, Victoria is another favorite composer of mine, and you can't go wrong with the Oxford Pro Musica.
Look for recordings by the Tallis Scholars. They do Thomas Tallis, obviously, plus other Renaissance-era composers. Tallis and William Byrd are giants in the Anglican tradition of sacred music, but/and their settings of Latin texts like "O Sacrum Convivium," "Miserere Mei," etc, are just incomparable.
Again, I don't have specific recordings in mind, but Allegri's "Miserere" and Antonio Lotti's "Crucifixus" would be anthems to look for . . . "Crux Fidelis" by King John of Portugal . . . these are all good Holy Week pieces.
An ensemble called The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers, does a lot of renaissance-era sacred music. I have a CD of "The Western Wynde Mass" by an English composer named John Shepherd which is beautiful.
The choir school of the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, UT, does excellent recordings of a wide variety of traditional Catholic choral music.
I try to immerse us in beautiful sacred music as much as I can, and these are my top picks. You can tell I'm a Renaissance lover!
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Oh, another suggestion: look for recordings by a group called Anonymous 4. They are an ensemble of four (surprise!) women singing mostly a capella, who do a varied repertoire which includes a lot of medieval chant and polyphony. You might like An English Ladymass, La Bele Marie (medieval French songs to the Virgin Mary), On Yoolis Night (medieval Christmas music), etc.
They're on iTunes if you want to preview their music. Actually, if you have iTunes, that's a great way to put together a listening list -- just buy individual pieces and make a playlist of traditional Catholic music. That's how we listen to music these days . . .
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SallyT wrote:
Oh, another suggestion: look for recordings by a group called Anonymous 4.
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I second this recommendation....they are awesome!!!
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I'm nodding in agreement with all your suggestions, Sally. 
We used to have a fabulous classical station (WGMS) which the public radio station WETA did try to reinstate in part. Arkivmusic is a great collection of music.
The Cambridge Singers is another group that I really like, also SAVAE has some unique polyphonic music from the New World composers. Very good.
An older group I enjoy is Alfred Deller Consort. And my fall back group I listen to is the Trapp Family Singers. One Voice is the latest collection of excerpts from many of their records, and there is quite a mixture of types of music.
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