Martin Frank - Mass for Double Choir - RIAS Kammerchor
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RIAS Kammerchor / Daniel Reuss Frank Martin and Olivier Messiaen have few musical features in common, but their faith overrides the fundamental differences...
RIAS Kammerchor / Daniel Reuss
Frank Martin and Olivier Messiaen have few musical features in common, but their faith overrides the fundamental differences between them and makes them two of the most important Christian composers of the 20th century. Martin's Mass for unaccompanied double choir is the profoundly ecumenical profession of faith of a fervent Christian. As to the 'Cinq Rechants' Messiaen's last a cappella work, its composer rightly thought it 'one of [his] best works'.
"near-definitive readings of important twentieth-century vocal works, showing the performers on top form in both choral and soloistic mode...The outstanding item here is the Cinq Rechants, whose daunting challenges have perhaps never been more triumphantly dispatched...This belongs in every Messiaen collection."
International Record Review, July/August 2004
"This incredibly beautiful mass was written in the 1920s but not heard until 1963, since when it has become one of the Swiss composer's most performed scores. Its simple, diatonic, modal style strikes to the heart of spirituality in art. Daniel Reuss's exquisite Berlin performance is coupled with Martin's austerely Shakesperian Songs of Ariel, plus Messiaen's only a capella works - the short motet O sacrum convivium and Cinq rechants, an ecstatic song of love. Five-star recommendation."
Andrew Clark, The Financial Times, 7 August 2004
"choral singing at its finest."
Alan Blyth, Gramophone, August 2004