With an œuvre of more than 200 compositions, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) made a significant contribution to church music in the second half of the 19th c. The “Musica Sacra” series presents many exemplary works available for the first time in this 10 CD set. The Kammerchor Stuttgart, collegium vocale Limburg, Vancouver Cantata Singers, Frankfurter Kantorei, Elektra Women’s Choir Vancouver, Vocalensemble Rastatt, Kammerchor Saarbrücken, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Klaus Mertens, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and others feature among this set’s renowned soloists and ensembles.
