Haydn/ Christensen/ Hammarstrom - Stabat Mater? Ren Jacobs presents Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, Zrcher Singakademie and an excellent quartet of vocal soloists (Birgitte Christensen, Kristina Hammarstrm, Steve Davislim and Christian Immler). With this recording, Jacobs finally returns to a composer that is very dear to him, and offers a first vocal album on Pentatone after acclaimed interpretations of Schubert's complete symphonies. Setting a text that

and for choir and violin

he was quite astonished: That his music met with such great enthusiasm was by no means a matter of course for Mozart

David's wishes have now been fulfilled

De Boeck/ Tinel/ Flanders Sym Orch/ Bollon - Symphony in G / Polyeucte Overture

which revolves around false worship and blind faith

Starbound Stories

while Angelo Bruzzese's Capriccio reveals subtle echoes

and Frank performs a death scene

Bach / Schill/ Worm/ Trudinger - Bach: Goldberg Variations

Recorded with Bob Rock

it's a visual feast

They transfer everything they can salvage from the ship to the island including live animals