Ruben Sturm; OPUS VOCALE Berlin; Karl-Forster-Chor Berlin
Description
Jan Janca's music reflects his personal experience. Showing remarkable wisdom he succeeds in combining music for practical liturgical use with the highest artistic aspirations.
The Missa de Angelis, composed in 1979 and including congregational song, impressively demonstrates this fact. Janca's works lend themselves to performance - by no means the rule for contemporary composers..... plus they are very popular - not only in Catholic parish communities.
Janca is now over eighty years old and traces his roots to Gdansk. During the 1950s he resided in the West in order to study with Marcel Dupré. Ruben Stumm, the Regensburg Cathedral Organist, plays the organ works at Janca's "home church" in Tübingen, and the Opus Vocale Choir of Berlin interprets the Missa with vigorous participation by the Karl Foster Choir in the role of the "congregation." Volker Hedtfeld conducts the performance, with support from Heiko Holtmeier on the organ.
Tracklisting
Andrzej Szadejko, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Cracow Singers
Lea Suter
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopolder-Quartett, Munchner Klaviertrio
Various Artists
Holger Falk, Steffen Schleiermacher
Leipzig String Quartet
Chimaera Trio
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
Tomasz Skweres, Ensemble Reconsil, OEsterreichisches Ensemble fur Neue Musik, Orkiestra Muzyki Nowe
MARTYN BRABBINS, BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, BBC SINGERS
Anthony de Mare; Conrad Tao
Musica Gloria, Nele Vertommen, Beniamino Paganini
Vanni Moretto; Atalanta Fugiens
Karel Ancerl; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Kartal Karagedik, Helmut Deutsch
Ryelandt Trio, Linde Verjans, Seamus Hickey
