Help me find more composers like this!

[nozflubber]

If anyone can recomend any composers that use a similar polyphony chorus like Sheppard, I'd appreciate it! I don't believe in god, but I can practically hear such things in this piece:

https://www.isound.com/tallis_scholars_2/albums/1076873/john_sheppard___media_vita

 

[quietmusician]

Eric Sera has some stuff like this, mostly for the movie The Messenger. Hans Zimmer has a few songs like this. I honestly don't know any artists who use this as their main focus. It sounds really awesome, though.

 

[Wyst]

Eric Whitacre is aweseome, dude.

His Cloudburst album has some GREAT tracks on it. Such as:

[YOUTUBE="qhCS7etNEbU"]Sleep[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Sniffles]

I believe that's Thomas Tallis you're linking to nozflubber. Or at least Tallis is the composer associated with that form of polyphony - English plainchant.

Anyways, Michael Praetorius is another great composer in this field of music:

[youtube="cb1cZYLDVGk"]Christmas Vespers[/youtube]

YouTube - Michael Praetorius:Motets from Musæ Sionæ Erhalt uns, Herr
YouTube - Michael Praetorius:Motets from Musæ Sionæ Resonet in laudibu
YouTube - Michael Praetorius:Motets from Musæ Sionæ Aus tiefer Not
YouTube - Michael Praetorius:Motets from Musæ Sionæ Gott des Vater
YouTube - Michael Praetorius:Motets from Musæ Sionæ Christus, der uns
YouTube - Michael Praetorius:Motets from Musæ Sionæ Allein Gott

 

[Sniffles]

Of course there's also Gregorian chants:

[youtube="SCot5L54-dE"]Credo III[/youtube]
[youtube="5q5tLmObd_E"]Sanctus VIII[/youtube]
[youtube="d5p_U8J0iRQ"]Salve Regina[/youtube]
[youtube="2qQ32xzn2og"]Salve Festa Dies[/youtube]
[youtube="Dlr90NLDp-0"]Dies Irae[/youtube]
[youtube="_MbDqc3x97k"]Ave mundi spes Maria[/youtube]
[youtube="lGdtll3KAqw"]et lux in tenebris[/youtube]

The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos are a good group too look for this kind of music. Their albums have been top sellers.

There's also the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, who recently released an album Chant: Music for the Soul, which includes some very good renditions of Gregorian chants too.

 

[Sniffles]

Anonymous 4 is another good group to look for.

[youtube="WSHUwpTezK0"]Anonymous 4 - Miracles of Compostela[/youtube]


Hildegard von Bingen is another composer you should look out for:
[youtube="ooI8-mMwta4"]O aeterne Deus[/youtube]
[youtube="LJEfyZSvg5c"]Spiritus Sanctus[/youtube]

 

[nozflubber]

Tallis was the performer for that particular track but it was Sheppard who originally composed Media Vitae

And thanks, i'll try these out!

 

[Sniffles]

Well in that case, I officially suggest Thomas Tallis

[youtube="aMz7ufLN-L4"]"Spem in alium", motet for 40 voices[/youtube]

 

[Sniffles]

Well I found this quite randomly:
[youtube="30UfjAucDsA"]William Byrd - Ave verum corpus[/youtube]

Here's also some excerpts from Guillaume Du Fay's Mass for St. Anthony of Padua
[youtube="1Bt5AltXdjU"]Introitus: In medio ecclesie[/youtube]
[youtube="ht-N_IYLYS8"]Gloria[/youtube]
[youtube="hFeYtLKuK1g"]Graduale: Os iusti[/youtube]

 

[Travo7]

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I love it.
You might too, or not.

YouTube - Rachmaninov Vespers - 2 Praise the Lord (Greek Chant, Ps. 104)