Frank Martin: Missa

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relaxed, alert singing that uses the building to their advantage, not pushing the sound but letting it bloom with discreetly placed consonants and minimal vibrato…anyone with fond memories of... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: ROP6111
Label: Rondeau
Length: 54 minutes

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Grünert: Agnus Dei

Work length2:27

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Kammerchor der Frauenkirche Dresden
Matthias Grünert
Recorded: 28-30 April 2015
Recording Venue: Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Grünert: Pater Noster

Work length6:10

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Kammerchor der Frauenkirche Dresden
Matthias Grünert
Recorded: 28-30 April 2015
Recording Venue: Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Fletcher, P: Festival Offertorium

Work length6:59

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Matthias Grünert (organ)
Recorded: 28-30 April 2015
Recording Venue: Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Fletcher, P: Fountain Reverie

Work length5:26

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Matthias Grünert (organ)
Recorded: 28-30 April 2015
Recording Venue: Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Fletcher, P: Festival Toccata

Work length7:34

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Matthias Grünert (organ)
Recorded: 28-30 April 2015
Recording Venue: Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Martin, F: Mass for Double Choir

Work length26:06

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Kammerchor der Frauenkirche Dresden
Matthias Grünert
Recorded: 28-30 April 2015
Recording Venue: Frauenkirche Dresden, Germany

Kyrie

Track length5:13

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Gloria

Track length5:30

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Credo

Track length6:49

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Sanctus

Track length4:11

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Agnus Dei

Track length4:23

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On 31 October 2015, the Frauenkirche Dresden celebrates the tenth anniversary of its consecration.

The mass of the great Impressionist Frank Martin.

Neither in painting nor in music has impressionism become synonymous with a profound confrontation with faith. That is, until the Swiss composer Frank Martin (1890–1974) opened the compositional doors of his era and enabled a new approach. Already in his early years he was capable of grappling with the depths of a Kyrie, the gravity of a Gloria or setting a Credo to music – by composing his impressive Missa für zwei vierstimmige Chöre (Missa for Two Choirs in Four Parts). Sound images appear in which the power of liturgical forms of expression introduce and reveal the worship service in an unexpected manner.

The mass is juxtaposed with twenty-first-century compositions by Matthias Grünert. In the Agnus Dei and the Pater Noster, this composer likewise proves himself to be a master of the expression of our time characterised by spiritual-liturgical form – the Musica Sacra.

The two compositions come together here under the auspices of the ten-year anniversary of the reconstruction of the Frauenkriche Dresden – the site that, as a re-established symbol of peace and reconciliation, radiates light and purity into our world. The works are interpreted here by one of the church’s ambassadors for peace, the Kammerchor der Frauenkirche under the direction of Frauenkirchenkantor Matthias Grünert.

Those things thus come together that do indeed belong together: music of two centuries and a spiritual symbol of two eras that seem to be more closely situated than expected today.

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February 2016

relaxed, alert singing that uses the building to their advantage, not pushing the sound but letting it bloom with discreetly placed consonants and minimal vibrato…anyone with fond memories of Dresden need not hesitate

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