James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
Format Details:
Release Date: 01 January 1998
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571170176
Description
'One of the greatest a cappella works written this century'; so writes Gramophone's Marc Rochester in the sleeve note to this recording, and this is no exaggeration. Written in 1922, with a devastatingly effective Agnus Dei being added in 1926, Frank Martin's Mass for double choir is a truly wonderful work, combining intensely personal moments of religious contemplation with outbursts of overwhelming glory.
Pizzetti's Messa di Requiem, also composed in 1922, is a work firmly steeped in the Gregorian tradition, Pizzetti weaving an intriguing twentieth-century web over the familiar tunes.
Also included on this recording are Martin's Passacaille, the composer's only work for solo organ, and Pizzetti's De profundis, dedicated by way of apology to a colleague on whom Pizzetti had previously vented his infamous foul temper.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell: Westminster Cathedral Choir
