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Definitely.  Let’s not forget Berlioz Requiem.  Munch conducting Boston Symphony is wonderful.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrs-r77FPJKOAW0GMy6wQbyAxDb_xDN6&si=-OEl6Kxl6OlH3cE_

I recently saw two black operas by Terence Blanchard. One was about Emile Griffith a gay boxer in the fifties who killed in the ring an openent who taunted him about being gay.

The second was about Charles Blow a gay writer who I used to see on CNN all the time.

The score from the Charles Blow opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones was rivetting. So was the score about Emile Griffith, called Champion. Here's a snippet of Champion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8aQVVbgEs

@frogman 

Don't know if I've heard Berlioz's Requiem. I'll look for it.

Did you see the Blanchard operas at the Met?

Try Jakob Obrecht and Josquin Des prez masses... Super geniuses of the highest order..."Missa super Maria Zart" with Prague madrigalist though is my treasured version because of the rythm...Missa pange lingua  but with Ensemble Clement Janequin because of the rythm ...Tallis scholars for example kill it with no rythm so well the sing and they sing well for sure ..

I am in love with Purcell Anthems... But i never retrieved the Wilcocks album i owned long ago and the actual complete Anthems version i own is  acceptable but nothing more ...

There is too much geniuses in sacred music before Bach  for only one thread...

it is not well known generally ...In fact most geniuses are not known at all ...Especially the Franco Flamish school...