The Secret Mass: Choral Works by Frank Martin & Bohuslav Martinu
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Label: OUR Recordings
Cat No: 6220671
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 13th April 2018
Contents
Works
Mass for double choirSongs of Ariel from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (5)
Marian Songs (4), H235
The Romance of the Dandelions, H364
Artists
Danish National Vocal EnsembleConductor
Marcus CreedWorks
Mass for double choirSongs of Ariel from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (5)
Marian Songs (4), H235
The Romance of the Dandelions, H364
Artists
Danish National Vocal EnsembleConductor
Marcus CreedAbout
The centerpiece of this album is Martin’s towering masterwork, the Mass for Double Choir. Originally completed in 1926, Martin did not allow the work to be performed until 1963. After its premiere he explained: ‘I felt that a personal expression of religious belief should remain secret and hidden from public opinion.’ Thankfully Martin decided to share his secret; his Mass has become one of the 20th century’s most powerful works composed for a cappella choir.
Beyond the similarity of their surnames there is little in common between the two men. For Swiss-born Martin, his musical breakthrough came early in life when he heard a performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. His musical language draws on a wide variety of influences, including Renaissance polyphony, Hindemithian extended tonality and traces of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system, but above all, Bach. In contrast, the urbane, cosmopolitan Martinů was a stylistic butterfly, and a bit of a late bloomer. One can easily hear traces of impressionism and Stravinskian neoclassicism throughout his mature style, but in his finest moments, Martinů embraces the love of folklore that inspired his elder countryman, Leoš Janáček.
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