Nickel: Mass, Te Deum
Vancouver Chamber Choir & Contemporary Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell
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Vancouver Chamber Choir & Contemporary Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell
Description
Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel adds to his impressive catalogue of large-scale liturgical works with a double-bill featuring his Mass and Te Deum, composed concurrently and completed in 2022. As with previous works - including Requiem, and the seven-hour long oratorio The Gospel According to Mark - Chris' spirituality infuses his music with melancholy and meditative qualities. Haunting intimacy, a predilection for chant-like melodies and allusions to Medieval music, and plangent orchestral colours, give these two new sacred works a feeling of timelessness.
Listeners will recognise Chris' penchant for unusual combinations of instruments - a quartet from the oboe family in both works, with the lesser heard oboe d'amore and bass oboe alongside oboe and cor anglais; and a pair of Wagner tubas in the Mass.
Chris once again collaborates with soprano Catherine Redding, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra under the baton of Clyde Mitchell - who on previous releases of Chris' music have delivered "emotionally stirring performances" (The WholeNote).
Tracklisting
Sonnambula
Christoph Croise; Daniel Schnyder
Bruce Wolosoff
Daniel-Ben Pienaar
Sean Jones, Nicholas Phan, London Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Young
National Philharmonic, Curtis Stewart, Michael Repper
Theatro
Susan Narucki, Curtis Macomber
Berit Norbakken; Arctic Philharmonic; Hennig Kraggerud
Melanie Marshall; Roderick Williams; The Cambridge Singers; Taplow Young Voices; Royal Philharmonic
Mirjam Mesak; Kai Ruutel-Pajula; Mati Turi; Taavi Tampuu; Raiko Raalik; Chorus Mysticus; Singers of
Jervaulx Singers; Beth Moxon; Gareth Meirion Edmunds; Edmund Danon; Alison Frances Gill; Charlie Go
Alejandro Del Angel; Massimo Cavalletti; Aalto Theatre Opera Chorus; Essen Philharmonic Choir; Esse
Denis Rouger; figure humaine kammerchor; Hyelin Lee
Janet Baker; Bayerischen Rso; Rafael Kubelik
Paavo Jarvi; Estonian Festival Orchestra; Kalle Randalu; Estonian National Male Choir; Ellerhein Gi