Critics have applauded the ensemble’s purity of sound, its controlled sensuality, and the profundity of its music-making: since Jörg Breiding took over the direction of the Knabenchor Hannover (Hanover Boys Choir) ten years ago, he has expanded the choir’s comprehensive repertoire with works by less-known composers.

Excerpts from previously published CDs and from so-far unpublished recordings present a musical portrait spanning five epochs of European choral music.

Works by: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Alfred Koerppen, Claudio Monteverdi, Michael Praetorius, John Rutter, Heinrich Schütz, Siegfried Strohbach, Antonio Vivaldi and Harald Weiss.