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Part: Berliner Messe & Magnificat

Stephen Layton: Polyphony

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDH55408

Release Date:  01 August 2014

Label:  Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571154084

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

  • Description

    Here is some of the most spiritually uplifting music of our generation, sung by that most virtuosic of choirs, Polyphony. Arvo Part (paralleled in England by John Tavener) has succeeded in capturing the attention of a broad public through his consummate ability to weave a sense of inevitable power into music of fundamental simplicity. The impressive Berlin Mass which opens the disc was written in 1990, the Credo being a fascinating major-key reworking of the earlier minor-mode Summa; very much an expression of joy at the lifting of the Soviet embargo on ‘sacred’ music in Estonia. Annum per Annum is a monumental work for solo organ and is here performed on the organ of St Paul’s Cathedral: a thoroughly exhilarating experience. The disc ends with the masterpiece De profundis. This most powerful of texts draws from Part an inexorable momentum from a beginning almost out of nothing to a devastating climax.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Berliner Messe
      • 2. The Beatitudes
      • 3. Annum per annum (K - G
      • 4. Magnificat
      • 5. Seven Magnificat Antiphons
      • 6. De profundis