Mendelssohn Magnificat, Ave Maria, J.S.Bach Magnificat : Carrington / Yale Collegium Players, Schola Cantorum

Felix Mendelssohn:
Magnificat in D major
String Symphony No. 12 in G minor: I. Fuga

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Magnificat in D major

Felix Mendelssohn:
Ave Maria

Yale Schola Cantorum
Yale Voxtet
Yale Collegium Players / Simon Carrington, conductor

Digital Recording: 09/2008

J.S. Bach’s famous Magnificat and that of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel were the templates for the teenage Mendelssohn’s first major work for soloists, chorus and full orchestra, a brilliant setting of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s song of praise, composed in 1822, floridly Baroque in conception and similar in scale to the Bach settings. His Ave Maria of 1830 again evokes Baroque splendour, but also points towards his later oratorios, Paulus and Elijah. ( NAXOS )