Beyond this recordings new age packaging and title is a splendid sampling of some of the worlds finest choral music, sung by one of the worlds outstanding choirs. This “anthology of sacred choral music” spans 400 years and includes such masterpieces as Allegris Miserere, Bachs “Jesu, joy of mans desiring,” and Barbers exquisite Agnus Dei, which is the composers choral setting of his famous Adagio for Strings. Along the way we also hear Mozarts sublime “Ave verum corpus,” Elgars “Lux aeterna,” and the Kyrie from Palestrinas Missa Papae Marcelli. There has been a choir at Englands New College, Oxford, since the year 1379, and this impressive line of experience shows in the intelligent, unfaltering, and finely polished performances by todays ensemble of 16 boys and 12 adults. –David Vernier

5 Responses to “Agnus Dei: Music of Inner Harmony: The Choir of New College Oxford”

1. Xiao He says:

   February 26, 2006 at 12:00 am

   This album offers music that is profoundly moving and sumbline. It takes the listener onto an inner journal of extraordinary emotional depths and heights
2. Ms. Astrud Matanle says:

   May 13, 2007 at 12:00 am

   Not really my thing but mother in law loved it.