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Allegri Miserere The Cardinall’s Musick (Hyperion) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Bach Cantatas – No 82 ‘Ich habe genug’ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Munich Bach Orchestra / Karl Richter (Archiv) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Bach Cantata No 140 ‘Wachet auf’ Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloiosts / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (SDG) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Bach Magnificat Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot (Mirare) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Bach Mass in B minor Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloiosts / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Bach St Matthew Passion Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloiosts / Sir John Eliot Gardiner(Archiv) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Beethoven Missa solemnis Elisabeth Söderström; Marga Höffgen; Waldemar Kmentt; Martti Talvela; Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra / Otto Klemperer (EMI) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Berlioz Grande messe des morts London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis (Pentatone) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Berlioz L’enfance du Christ Corydon Singers and Orchestra / Matthew Best (Hyperion Dyad) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Berlioz Les nuits d’été Régine Crespin; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet (Decca) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Genia Kühmeier; Thomas Hampson; Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (RCA) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Ian Bostridge; Radek Baborak; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (EMI) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

*Britten War Requiem Heather Harper; Philip Langridge; John Shirley-Quirk; St Paul's Cathedral Choir; London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Richard Hickox (Chandos) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Bruckner Motets Corydon Singers / Matthew Best (Hyperion) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Byrd Masses for 3, 4 and 5 voices The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (Gimell) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne Véronique Gens; Lille National Orchestra / Jean-Claude Casadesus (Naxos) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Duruflé Requiem King’s College, Cambridge; English Chamber Orchestra / Sir Philip Ledger (CfP) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

*Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Paul Groves; Alice Coote; Bryn Terfel; Hallé Chorus and Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (Hallé) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

*Fauré Requiem Caroline Ashton; Stephen Varcoe; Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter (Collegium) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu 

Handel Coronation Anthems The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (Coro) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Handel Dixit Dominus Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski (Archiv) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

*Handel Messiah Dunedin Consort & Players / John Butt (Linn) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Haydn Nelson Mass The English Concert & Choir / Trevor Pinnock (Archiv) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Haydn The Creation Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Howells Hymnus Paradisi Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra / Vernon Handley (Hyperion) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Fritz Wunderlich; Christa Ludwig; Philharmonia / Otto Klemperer (EMI) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Mahler Kindertotenlieder Dame Janet Baker; Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli (EMI) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Mendelssohn Elijah Bryn Terfel; Edinburgh Festival Chorus; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Paul Daniel (Decca) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Monteverdi 1610 Vespers L’Arpeggiata (Virgin Classics) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Monteverdi Madrigals, Book 8 Concerto Vocale / René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Mozart Mass in C minor Handel & Haydn Society / Harry Christophers (Coro) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Mozart Requiem Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (Erato) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Orff Carmina burana Gundula Janowitz; Gerhard Stolze; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin / Eugen Jochum (DG) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (Gimell) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

R Strauss Four Last Songs Gundula Janowitz; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan (DG) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Rachmaninov Vespers Corydon Singers / Matthew Best (Hyperion) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Ravel Shéhérazade Régine Crespin; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet (Decca) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Schubert Winterreise Tenor version – Mark Padmore; Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Baritone version – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Jörg Demus (DG) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Schumann Dichterliebe Ian Bostridge; Julius Drake (EMI) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Tallis Spem in alium Magnificat / Philip Cave (Linn) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music 16 soloists; English Chamber Orchestra / Matthew Best (Hyperion) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

*Verdi Requiem Anja Harteros; Sonia Ganassi; Rolando Villazón; René Pape; Chorus and Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome / Antonio Pappano (EMI) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Victoria Requiem The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (Gimell) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Vivaldi Gloria in D, RV589 Monica Piccinini; Sara Mingardo; Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

Walton Belshazzar’s Feast Gwynne Howell; Bach Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir David Willcocks (Chandos) Buy from Arkivmusic.eu

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