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Bernstein: Mass

HMG 501840.41 (2 discs)

NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 100'46"
Tracks: 19 + 13
Booklet pages: 60
© 2004, 2012 harmonia mundi sa
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Bernstein: Mass published on 29 September 2012

Jerry Hadley, tenor (Celebrant)
Julian Frischling, boy soprano (Dresdner Kreuzchor)
Pacific Mozart Ensemble (Street Chorus)
Richard Grant, director
Lynne Morrow, director
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Simon Halsey, director
Staats- und Domchor Berlin
Kai-Uwe Jirka, director
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Kent Nagano, conductor

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990):

Mass - A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers

CD1

I Devotions before Mass
1 Antiphon 'Kyrie eleison'
2 Hymn and Psalm: A Simple Song
3 Responsory: Alleluia

II First Introit (Rondo)
4 Prefatory Prayers
5 Thrice - Triple Canon: Dominus vobiscum

III Second Introit
6 In nomine Patris
7 Prayer for the Congregation (Chorale 'Almighty Father')
8 Epiphany

IV Confession
9 Confiteor
10 Trope: 'I don't know'
11 Trope: 'Easy'

12 V Meditation No 1

VI Gloria
13 Gloria tibi
14 Gloria in excelsis
15 Trope: 'Half of the People'
16 Trope: 'Thank you'

17 VII Meditation No 2

18 VIII Epistle 'The Word of Lord'

19 IX Gospel-Sermon 'God said'

CD2

X Credo
1 Credo in unum deum
2 Trope: 'Non Credo'
3 Trope: 'Hurry'
4 World Without End
5 Trope: 'I believe in God'

6 XI Meditation No 3

7 XII Offertory

XIII The Lord's Prayer
8 'Our Father ...'
9 Trope: 'I Go On'

10 XIV Sanctus 'Holy! Holy! Holy! ...'

11 XV Agnus Dei

12 XVI Fraction 'Things Get Broken'

13 XVII Pax: Communion 'Secret Songs'


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