This new album by the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kļava – recently hailed by the New York Times as ‘astonishing’, ‘superlative’ by the BBC Music Magazine, and ‘perhaps the finest chorus singing today’ by NPR – is focused on the sacred choral works by one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847).
Works:
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Mendelssohn: Six Motets, Op. 79
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Mendelssohn: Three Psalms, Op. 78
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Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt, WoO 28, MWV B 45
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Mendelssohn: Die deutsche Liturgie, MWV B 57
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Mendelssohn: 3 Psalms, Op. 78: No. 3, Psalm 22 "Mein Gott, warum", MWV B 51
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Mendelssohn: Lord, Have Mercy upon Us, WoO 12, MWV B 27