Choral Works (Includes 'Mass for Double Choir')

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FRANK MARTIN
Choral Works (Includes 'Mass for Double Choir')
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers

[ Coro / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 8 April 2005

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"...a marvellous demonstration of Martin's gifts as a composer of vocal music."
bbc music magazine

"...a marvellous demonstration of Martin's gifts as a composer of vocal music."
- bbc music magazine

Frank Martin was arguably Switzerland's greatest composer. His shimmering Mass for Double Choir, completed in 1926 as 'an affair between God and himself', is one of the finest settings of the 20th century, yet it had to wait forty-one years to be shared with others in its first performance. This collection of his choral music also includes his cantata for Switzerland's National Day and the Ode to Music, along with some charming part-songs. Eclectic and technically superb these pieces display a style that is serenely individual.

"Frank Martin has always belonged to the elite of the musical world due solely to his creative genius, nurtured by the silent meditation in his work and by the fervour of his faith."
Pierre Fournier

Tracks:

1 Cantate pour le 1er Août 6.27

Chansons (1944)
2 Janeton 1.05
3 Petite église 4.10
4 Si Charlotte avait voulu 1.12

Songs of Ariel
5 Come unto these yellow sands 1.28
6 Full fathom five 3.39
7 Before you can say 0.53
8 You are three men of sin 4.11
Sally Bruce-Payne (alto solo)
9 Where the bee sucks 1.09

Chansons (1931)
10 Sonnet 2.06
11 Le coucou 1.35
12 Ode 1.07
13 Le petit village 2.14

14 Ode à la Musique 8.40
Simon Birchall (baritone solo)

Mass for Double Choir
15 Kyrie eleison 4.34
16 Gloria 5.47
17 Credo 5.29
18 Sanctus 3.11
19 Benedictus 1.15
20 Agnus Dei 5.48