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Choral Music Suggestions

I'm interested in trying some well recorded choral music in SACD, CD or LP format. I listen to baroque and classical music but do not have any experience with choral works. I think I would prefer smaller scale works from the same periods (or even early music) rather than large scale more modern works. Can you help me get started with some suggestions?
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frogman
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For something really different try the Kodaly Girls Choir of Budapest recordings. A favorite is "Hungarian Songs" on Angel Records, the music of Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok. Unusual music that is beautiful and at times very haunting.
frogman
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Also check out the Harmonia Mundi recordings of the music of Carlo Gesualdo; one of the most interesting personalities in all of musical history. His madrigals, composed in the late Rennaisance period are stunningly beautiful, and are literally centuries ahead of their time with their amazing use of chromaticism and dissonance.
frogman
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Hi Learsfool,

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
"Madrigals In Five Parts"

Includes several madrigals from his last three books of madrigals which is, as you know, when things got really interesting. Amazing to think this music was written four hundred years ago.

Ensemble Vocal Européen, Philippe Herreweghe
"Sabbato Sancto"

Regards.
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