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Madness, melancholy, tragedy, awareness of personal mortality, passions and moods of every variety… If you enjoy contemplating the trials and tribulations of the human soul, the recordings in this section will accompany you on your “descent into hell”!

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Middle Ages

1000: A Mass for the End of Time. Medieval Chant and Polyphony for the Ascension

Anonymous 4
Digital
1h12
x 2
JOHANN LUDWIG BACH

Trauermusik

Prohaska, Fuchs, Schmitt, Wolf, RIAS Kammerchor / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
1 CD
1h17
x 3
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Cantatas "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" BWV 12, 38, 75

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Digital
1h09
x 3
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Trauerode BWV 198Cantata BWV 78

Philippe Herreweghe
Digital
0h57
BÉLA BARTÓK

The Miraculous Mandarin

Orchestre National de Lyon, David Robertson
Digital
1h14
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Piano Sonatas Nos. 12, 17, 22 & 27 op.26 "Funeral March", 31/2 "Tempest", 54 & 90

Javier Perianes
Digital
1h09
x 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18 op.31, Variations Op.34 & 35 "Eroica" (the "new way" of the Heiligenstadt Testament)

Andreas Staier, fortepiano
2 CD
1h45
x 1
BERG - BEETHOVEN

Violin Concerto "To the memory of an angel" / Violin Concerto in D major op.61

Isabelle Faust, Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
1 CD
1h08
x 8
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Mass, New York 1969-71

Ensemble Clément Janequin
Digital
1h46
x 2
Anthology

"Bitter Ballads". Ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies

Paul Hillier, Andrew Lawrence-King
Digital
1h17
JOHANNES BRAHMS

"Warum is das Licht…" : choral works opp.54, 74, 92, 104, 109, 110, 112

Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
1 CD
1h10
x 2
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

"Before life and after" / Songs & cycles : Winter Words op.52, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

Mark Padmore, Roger Vignoles
Digital
1h12
x 6
EMILIO DE CAVALIERI

Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (The representation of the soul and the body, Rome, 1600)

Staatsopernchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Digital
1h32
x 2
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER

Miserere. Motets

La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
1 CD
0h59
x 2
FREDERIC CHOPIN

Piano sonatas No.2 'Funeral' & No.3

Javier Perianes
1 CD
1h06
x 1
ANTOINE & JEAN-BAPTISTE FORQUERAY

"Forqueray... ou les tourments de l'âme" (Complete Works)

Michèle Dévérité, Kaori Uemura, Ryo Terakado, Ricardo Rodriguez, Robert Kohnen
4 CD
4h03
x 2
Anthology

"Free America!":Songs of Resistance and Rebellion

The Boston Camerata, Anne Azéma
1 CD
0h59
CARLO GESUALDO

Complete Madrigals, Books 1 & 2

Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
2 CD
1h21
x 1
CARLO GESUALDO

Complete Madrigals, Books 3 & 4

Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
2 CD
1h37
x 4
CARLO GESUALDO

Complete Madrigals, Books 5 & 6

Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
2 CD
2h18
x 3
Anthology

"Gloryland". Folk songs, Spirituals, Gospels, hymns of Hope & Glory

Anonymous 4, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall
Digital
1h04
x 2
JOSQUIN DESPREZ

Miserere mei Deus. De Profundis. Deploration on the Death of Ockeghem

Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
1 CD
1h06
ERNST KRENEK

Motets after Kafka. Five Prayers. Cantata on the Transience of Earthly Things. Choruses after Monteverdi

RIAS Kammerchor, Hans Christoph Rademann
Digital
1h14
x 1
ROBERT KYR

The Cloud of Unknowing. Songs of the Soul

Conspirare
Digital
1h16
PASCHAL DE L'ESTOCART

Octonaires de la Vanité du Monde

Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse
Digital
0h47
ROLAND DE LASSUS

Canciones Sacrae sex vocibus

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Digital
0h53
x 3
ROLAND DE LASSUS

"Inferno". Motets for six and eight voices

Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
1 CD
0h49
ROLAND DE LASSUS

Lagrime di san Pietro

Ensemble Vocal Européen, Philippe Herreweghe
Digital
0h59
x 1
ROLAND DE LASSUS

Psalmi Davidis pœnitentiales (Penitential Psalms)

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Digital
2h20
x 3
FRANZ LISZT

Dante-Sonata, Petrarch Sonnets, Mephisto-Waltz No.1, etc.

Jon Nakamatsu
Digital
1h15
GUSTAV MAHLER

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert-Lieder, etc

Bernarda Fink, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, Gustav Mahler-Ensemble, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
1 CD
1h17
x 1
cover 902584
Anthology

"Urlicht". Orchestral Lieder of Death and Resurrection

Samuel Hasselhorn, Poznań Philharmonic, Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz
1 CD
0h56
x 1
FRANK MARTIN

Golgotha, oratorio (Geneva, 1949)

Cappella Amsterdam, Estonian National S.O. & Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Daniel Reuss
Digital
1h34
Anthology

"Melancholia" : Madrigals & Motets around 1600

Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain
1 CD
1h07
x 3
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

Quartet for the End of Time

Trio Wanderer & Pascal Moraguès
1 CD
1h02
x 1
Anthology

"O felice morire" (Florence around 1600)

Joel Frederiksen, Ensemble Phoenix Munich
Digital
1h14
TARIK O'REGAN

Threshold of Night. Triptych. The Ecstasies above, etc.

Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson
Digital
0h59
x 1
ARVO PÄRT

Da pacem Domine. Salve Regina. Slavonic Psalms. Magnificat. Dopo la vittoria. Nunc dimittis

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier
Digital
1h04
x 3
ARVO PÄRT

De Profundis. Missa Sillabica. Solfeggio. Seven Magnificat Anthems

Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
Digital
1h16
x 2
Anthology

"Poetical Humors". Transcriptions for viola da gamba and accordion in 16th and 17th century England.

Les inAttendus (Marianne Muller, Vincent Lhermet)
1 CD
1h02
Anthology

"Portraits de la Folie": Vocal and instrumental works in the Baroque era

Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Stéphanie D'oustrac
1 CD
1h07
x 2
FRANCIS POULENC

La Voix humaine, a phone melodrama on a text by Jean Cocteau

Felicity Lott, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Armin Jordan
1 CD
0h50
x 3
Anthology

"…pour passer la mélancolie". About melancholy in Baroque music

Andreas Staier
Digital
1h14
x 2
Anthology

"Remembrance". Duruflé : Requiem. Musics of remembrance

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
Digital
1h18
Anthology

Herbert Howells, Eric Whitacre & Ildebrando Pizzetti

Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson
Digital
1h12
x 1
Anthology

"Requiem". Music for All Souls & All Saints

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
1 CD
1h17
cover 902614.15
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

Symphonic Poems. The Carnival of the Animals

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
2 CD
1h58
x 4
FRANZ SCHUBERT

"Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe". Lieder

Samuel Hasselhorn, Joseph Middleton
1 CD
1h11
x 2
Licht und Schatten
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Licht und Schatten: lieder of 1824 ("Schubert 200" #2)

Samuel Hasselhorn, Ammiel Bushakevitz
1 CD
1h07
x 2
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Schwanengesang. Goethe-Lieder

Werner Güra, Christoph Berner
Digital
1h09
x 2
FRANZ SCHUBERT

String Quartets No. 14 "Death & the Maiden". Quartettsatz D 903

Jerusalem Quartet
1 CD
0h51
x 3
ROBERT SCHUMANN

Frauenliebe und -leben

Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles
Digital
1h00
x 2
SMETANA - LISZT

Piano Trio op.15 / Elegies, Tristia, La lubugre gondola

Trio Wanderer
1 CD
1h12
x 1
JOHN TAVENER

Darkness into Light

Anonymous 4, Chilingirian Quartet
Digital
1h04
x 1
JOHN TAVENER

Eternity's Sunrise. Song of the Angel. Petra: A Ritual draem. Sappho. Funeral Canticle

The Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin
Digital
1h05
ANTONIO VIVALDI

The Four Seasons. With Rebel : Les Eléments

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
1 CD
1h05

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