Album Description
Winner of a Diapason d'Or award
Frank Martin was arguably Switzerland’s greatest composer. His shimmering Mass for Double Choir, completed in 1926 as ‘an affair between God and himself’, is one of the finest settings of the 20th century, yet it had to wait forty-one years to be shared with others in its first performance. This collection of his choral music also includes his cantata for Switzerland’s National Day and the Ode to Music, along with some charming part-songs. Eclectic and technically superb these pieces display a style that is serenely individual.
Artists
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Track Listing
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
1. Cantate pour le 1er Août
Chansons (1944)
2. Janeton
3. Petite église
4. Si Charlotte avait voulu
Songs of Ariel
5. Come unto these yellow sands
6. Full fathom five
7. Before you can say
8. You are three men of sin
9. Where the bee sucks
Chansons (1931)
10. Sonnet
11. Le coucou
12. Ode
13. Le petit village
14. Ode à la Musique
Mass for Double Choir
15. Kyrie eleison
16. Gloria
17. Credo
18. Sanctus
19. Benedictus
20. Agnus Dei
TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 67.24
