Choral or Classical Vocal Recordings - Must Have

John Rutter's own Requium. I have it on an HDCD sampler.

Here are some additional selections that I greatly enjoy, together with some suggested performances (on LP, not sure of availability on CD):
~Poulenc - Gloria, Pretre/FNRO/Carteri on EMI
~Allegri - Miserere, Tallis Scholars or Willcocks/King's College Choir
~Britten - Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, Rejoice in the Lamb (to limit myself to 3 works)
~Byrd - Mass in 3 Parts, Willcocks/King's College Choir
~Carissimi - Jephte (also Jefta), on Proprius label
~Worcester Fragments, Stevens/AccademiaMoteverdiana on Nonesuch
~Laudate! - (music of the Baroque) DrottingholmBarEns & UppsalaAcKammarkor on Proprius label
~Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children, ContempChmEns/ DeGaetani on Nonesuch
~Durufle - Requiem, Durufle/OrchLamoureu on Erato label
~Handel - Messiah, McGegan/PhilBarOrchestra
~Haydn - Harmoniemesse, Guest/ASMF/Choir StJohn's College Cambridge on Argo (Decca)
~Hildegard of Bingen - "Sequences and Hymns by..." Page/GothicVoices on Hyperion label
~Holst - Salvitri, I.Holst/ECO/Purcell Singers/J.Baker on Argo (Decca)
~Janacek - Glagolitic Mass, Ancerl/CzechPO or Kempe/RPO
~Josquin Des Pres - Missa Pange Lingua, Tallis Scholars
~Ockeghem - Requiem, Clemencic Consort, Harmonia Mundi label
~Orff - Carmina Burana, DeBurgos (EMI) or Kempe (Philips)
~Carmina Burana "original manuscript" performance - Clemencic Consort, Harmonia Mundi label
~Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli, Tallis Scholars
~Pizzetti - Messa di Requiem (20th Century), Mikaeli Kammarkor on Proprius label
~Roman - Swedish Mass, Ohrwall/DrottingholmBarEns, Proprius label
~Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs, Mass in g, Sancta Civitas
~Victoria - O Magnum Mysterium, Guest/Choir StJohn's College Cambridge on Argo (Decca)
~Martin Best (artist: lute, guitar, vocal) - "The Dawn of Romance" (EMI), "The Dante Troubadours" (Nimbus), "The Testament of Tristan" (Hyperion)
~Bach - Coffee Cantata and Peasant Cantata (for a bit of fun), Harnoncourt on Telefunken (Teldec)
~Hillier - "Proensa" (based on songs of the troubadours), Paul Hillier on ECM label

Barbara Bonney's disc "Fairest Isle"....a great CD of early English music (Dowland and the like). Fantastic in all respects.

Thank you all for adding to the list of must have choral / classical recordings. I'm going to order some of these for my listening pleasure.

- Veronique Gens: Nuit D'etoiles
- Monica Groop: Bach Alto Cantatas
- Susam Graham: C'est ca la vie
- Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
- Barbara Bonney: Diamonds in the Snow
- Andreas Scholl: Wayfaring Stranger
- Maria Bayo: Handel Opera Arias and Cantatas
- Regine Crespin: (Remastered) Berlioz' Les Nuits d'Ete and Ravel's Sheherazade
- Morten Lauridsen: Dirait-on
- JS Bach: Matthaus-Passion (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
- Bernarda Fink: Canciones Amatorias
- Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Bernarda Fink)
- Terra Nova Consort: Renaissance en provence
- Mudejar by Begonia Olavide
- Ludus Danielis: The Play of Daniel (Harp Consort)
- Esther Lamandier: Chansons de Toile (extremely rare)
- Esther Lamandier: Decameron (again, extremely rare)
- Canto Mediterraneo: Guillemette Laurens ans Cappricio Stravagante
- Schubert: Schwanengesang; Brahms: Vier ernste Gesange by Thomas Quasthoff

More to come...