Discography: Some of Amor Artis' more than 50 recordings




Victoria-Sacred Jewels

"Amor Artis is a refined chamber choir and orchestra, who work in music as Michelangelo did in marble."

Tomas Luis de Victoria's works appear on "Sacred Jewels." Amor Artis' new CD on the Amor Artis Edition label. The CD includes 15 motets and the Missa Pro Defunctis performed by the Amor Artis Chamber Choir with Johannes Somary conductor.



 

Track Listing

  • 1. O Quam Gloriosum 2:48
  • 2. Lauda Sion 2:58
  • 3. Quam Pulchri Sunt 3:28
  • 4. Ave Maris Stella 6:12
  • 5. O Magnum Mysterium 3:22
  • 6. Magi Viderunt Stellam 3:25
  • 7. Pueri Hebraeorum 3:05
  • 8. Una Hora 3:35
  • 9. Popule Meus 3:12
  • 10. O Vos Omnes 4:24
  • 11. Victimae Paschali Laudes 2:15
  • 12. Veni Creator Spiritus 6:57
  • 13. Domine, Non Sum Dignus 1:13
  • 14. O Sacrum Convivium 3:37
  • 15. Magnificat Primi Toni 8:56
  • 16. Missa Pro Defunctis 19:18

Christmas with Amor Artis

Amor Artis' Christmas album is a compilation of liturgical and traditional music celebrating the rich heritage of this season throughout different cultural periods.

 

Track Listing

  • 1. Motet VI (Lobet den herrn) J.S. Bach 6:03
  • 2. Marchons Gaiment Dandrieu (organ) 2:03
  • 3. Joy to the World 1:54
  • 4. Surge illuminare Palestrina 3:00
  • 5. Lo, How a Rose Praetorius/Brahms 4:16
  • 6. Resonet in Laudibus Lassus 4:10
  • 7. O Little Town of Bethlehem 2:50
  • 8. Adeste Fidelis Ives (organ) 2:30
  • 9. Deck the Hall 1:14
  • 10. Wassail! arr. Anne Somary 1:29
  • 11. Jubilate Deo Lassus 1:23
  • 12. Salve Regina (Gregorian chant) 1:56
  • 13. Sicut Cervus Palestrina 2:50
  • 14. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear 1:52
  • 15. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 2:08
  • 16. Alma Mater Redemptoris Palestrina 2:56
  • 17. Bring a Torch Williams (organ) 1:22
  • 18. Silent Night Gruber 2:14
 

The Salzburg Mozart

A disc with choral music composed by Mozart when he was in Salzburg, with the Amor Artis Chorus and the Musica Antiqua Sankt Petersburg Orchestra was released internationally by Lyrichord in October 2007. Now available at lyrichord.com Regina Coeli, Ave Verum Corpus, and others. Cynthia Richards Wallace, Megan Friar, Michael Steinberger, Richard Holmes AmorArtis Chorus, Musica Antiqua Sankt Petersburg

Mozart, W. A. - Requiem

(Vox)

  • Lorna Haywood, D’Anna Fortunato, Patrick Romano, John Cheek
  • AmorArtis Chorus $amp; Period Instrument Orchestra
“...Not just another period instrument interpretation...the chorus is superb.”
- Opera News

Musica Dei

(Newport Classic)

Polyphonic works by Lassus and Palestrina
(Commemorating the 400th anniversary of their deaths)

AmorArtis Chamber Choir

"Beautiful singing, superbly recorded"
-American Record Guide

Christmas Around the World

(Vox)

AmorArtis Chamber Choir

Albinoni Adagio

(Vanguard CSRV 344; VBD-376)

English Chamber Orchestra

Concerto “Saint Marc”

(Vanguard C10098)

  • Martin Berinbaum, trumpet
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Arensky - Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky

(Vanguard VCD-72012)

English Chamber Orchestra

Bach, J.S. - Cantatas Nos. 11 and 80

Vanguard VCD-72000

AmorArtis Chorale, English Chamber Orchestra

Cantatas and Motets

(Vox Cum Laude)

  • Ann Monoyios, Shirley Love, John Ostendorf
  • AmorArtis Chorale and Orchestra

Concerto for Violin, Oboe, Strings

(Omega OCD 1013)

  • Yuval Waldman, Virginia Brewer, Edward Brewer
  • AmorArtis Orchestra

Mass in B Minor

(Vanguard)

  • Felicity Palmer, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, Michael Rippon
  • English Chamber Orchestra

The Six Brandenburg Concertos

(Vanguard)

English Chamber Orchestra

Saint Matthew Passion

(Vanguard VBD-377)

  • Ernst Haefliger, Elly Ameling, Birgit Finnilae, Seth McCoy, Benjamin Luxon
  • Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra

Borodin - Nocturne

(Vanguard CSRV 344; VCD-72012)

English Chamber Orchestra

Britten - Simple Symphony

(Vanguard CSRV 344)

English Chamber Orchestra

Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

(Vanguard)

  • Will Geer, narrator
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Carissimi

(Decca)

  1. Biblical Oratorios: Jepthe; Judicium Extremum
  2. AmorArtis Chorale and Orchestra

Corelli - Christmas Concerto

(Omega OCD 1013)

  • Yuval Waldman, Virginia Brewer, Edward Brewer
  • AmorArtis Orchestra

Courbois - Cantatas

(Leonarda)

John Ostendorf, Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra

Dvorak - Serenade for Strings

(Vanguard)

English Chamber Orchestra

Grieg - Holberg Suite

(Vanguard C10067)

English Chamber Orchestra

The Last Spring

(Vanguard)

English Chamber Orchestra

Handel - Acis and Galatea

(Newport Classic NCD 60045-1/2)

  • Julianne Baird, Grayson Hirst, Stephen Oosting, John Ostendorf
  • AmorArtis Baroque Orchestra

Entrance of the Queen of Sheba

(Vanguard CSRV 344)

English Chamber Orchestra

Jephthe *

(Vanguard)

  • Reri Grist, Maureen Forrester, Alexander Young
  • English Chamber Orchestra

* Winner, Stereo Review Record of the Year Award

Judas Maccabeus

(Vanguard C10126)

  • Heather Harper, Helen Watts, Alexander Young, John Shirley-Quirk
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Messiah (complete)*

(Vanguard VBD2-10090)

  • Margaret Price, Yvonne Minton, Alexander Young, Justino Diaz
  • English Chamber Orchestra

* Winner, Stereo Review Record of the Year Award

Messiah (highlights)

(Vanguard VBD-711176; CSRV 7177)

  • Royal Fireworks Music; The Water Music
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Semele

(Vanguard)

  • Sheila Armstrong, Helen Watts, Robert Tear, Justino Diaz
  • English chamber Orchestra

Sinfonia

(Vanguard CSRV 344)

AmorArtis

Solomon *

(Vanguard)

  • Shiela Armstrong, Felicity Palmer, Robert Tear, Justino Diaz, Michael Rippon
  • English Chamber Orchestra

* Winner, Stereo Review Record of the Year Award

Sosarme

(Newport Classic)

  • Julianne Baird, Jennifer Lane, D’Anna Fortunato, Drew Minter, John Aler, Nathaniel Watson
  • Taghkanic Chorale
  • AmorArtis Orchestra

Theodora *

(Vanguard)

  • Heather Harper, Maureen Forrester
  • English Chamber Orchestra

* Winner, Stereo Review Record of the Year Award

Haydn

(Vanguard VBD-25007)

  • Symphonies Nos. 100 and 103
  • The Mostly Mozart Orchestra

Hummel -Trumpet Concerto

(Vanguard C10098)

  • Martin Berinbaum, trumpet
  • English Chamber Orchestra

La Guerre - Cantatas

(Leonarda)

  • John Ostendorf
  • Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra

Mozart - Mass in C Minor

(Vanguard)

  • Carole Bogard, Ann Murray, Richard Lewis, Michael Rippon
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Requiem

(Vanguard)

  • Carole Bogard, Ann Murray, Richard Lewis, Michael Rippon
  • AmorArtis Chorale
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Requiem

(Vox)

  • Lorna Haywood, D’Anna Fortunato, Patrick Romano, John Cheek
  • AmorArtis Chorus & Period Instrument Orchestra

Pachelbel - Canon

(Vanguard CSRV 344; VBD-376)

English Chamber Orchestra

Prokofiev - "Classical" Symphony

(Vanguard)

English Chamber Orchestra

Peter and the Wolf

(Vanguard)

  • Will Geer, narrator
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Saint-Saëns - Requiem *

(Premier PRCD 1025)

  • Cynthia Richards Hewes (Wallace), Soprano
  • Kathryn Weld, Alto
  • John MacMaster, Tenor
  • Nathaniel Watson, Baritone
  • AmorArtis

* Nominated, “Best Choral Recording of 1992” Grammy Awards, Preliminary Round

Schutz - St. Matthew Passion and Fili Mi Absalom

(Newport Classic NCD 60110)

  • Grayson Hirst, John Ostendorf
  • AmorArtis Chorale and Baroque Orchestra and Sackbut Quartet

Somary - A Ballad of God and His People *

(Premier PRCD 1025)

  • Cynthia Richards Hewes (Wallace), Soprano
  • Kathryn Weld, Alto
  • John MacMaster, Tenor
  • Nathaniel Watson, Baritone
  • AmorArtis

* Nominated, “Best Choral Recording of 1992” Grammy Awards, Preliminary Round

Tchaikovsky - Serenade in C

(Vanguard VCD-72012)

English Chamber Orchestra

Torelli - Sonata a cinque, no. 7

(Vanguard C10098)

  • Martin Berinbaum, trumpet
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

(Omega OCD 1013)

  • Yuval Waldman, Virginia Brewer, Edward Brewer
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Weill - Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12 - Kiddush for Chorus, Tenor and Organ

(Newport Classic NCD 60098)

  • Yuval Waldman, Grayson Hirst, Ray Pellerin
  • AmorArtis Chamber Choir, AmorArtis Orchestra

Wiren - Serenade for Strings

(Vanguard VCD-72012)

English Chamber Orchestra

Other recordings...

A Baroque Christmas

(Decca)

AmorArtis Chorale and Orchestra

American Choral Music

(Leonarda LE 347)

  • Shalom by Jeanne E. Schaffer for chorus and orchestra
  • Many-Colored Brooms by Johannes Somary for women's voices, flute, viola, and piano
  • AmorArtis Chorale, Leonarda Orchestra

American Music by Bird, Freeman and Somary

(Premier 1043)

  • Includes Suite in D Major by Arthur Bird
  • Songs of Innocence and Three Is Company by Johannes Somary
  • Suite for Winds by John Freeman
  • Andrea Matthews, Zheng Zhou
  • Bronx Arts Ensemble

Cantatas by Jacquet de La Guerre and Courbois

(Leonarda)

  • John Ostendorf
  • Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra

Classical Favorites for Strings

(Vanguard CSRV 344; VBD-376)

  • Albinoni, Adagio
  • Pachelbel, Canon
  • Borodin, Nocturn
  • Handel, Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
  • Britten, Simple Symphony
  • English Chamber Orchestra

Classical Hits/Movies and Concertos

(Vanguard VBD 53)

AmorArtis

Memento Mori

(Albany Records TROY 463)

  • An AIDS Requiem by James Adler
  • Victoria Livengood, Jane Dutton, Maire O’Brien, Steve Huffins, Neil Farrell
  • AmorArtis Chorale & Orchestra

Orchestral Music from Imperial Russia

(Newport Classic)

  • Glinka, Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture; Liadov, Eight Russian Folk Songs;
  • Rimsky-Korsakoff, Fantasy on Russian Folk Songs; Taneyev, Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra
  • Polish National Radio and Television Orchestra

Renaissance, Baroque, and Contemporary Sacred Music

(Carillon Records)

St. Thomas More Choir of Yale University

Romantic Serenades

(Vanguard VCD-72012)

  • Dag Wiren, Serenade for Strings
  • Arensky, Variation
  • Borodin, Nocturne
  • Tchaikovsky Serenade in C
  • AmorArtis

Solid Gold Baroque

(Vanguard VBD-376)

  • Albinoni, Adagio
  • Pachelbel, Canon
  • Handel, Alla Hornpipe from Water Music, and Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
  • AmorArtis

Traditional Christmas Carols

(Polygram 314 520 249-2)

AmorArtis Chamber Choir

Vanguard’s World of Music

(Vanguard VCD 51)

AmorArtis