Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe & Magnificat

Polyphony’s singing is immensely cultivated; bright, clear, immaculately phrased, and gorgeously balanced — American Record Guide More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2014
Catalogue No: CDH55408
Label: Helios
Length: 73 minutes

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Pärt: Berliner Messe

Work length25:07

$8.00

$10.00

Andrew Lucas (organ)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton

I. Kyrie

Track length3:26

$1.00

$1.25

II. Gloria

Track length3:42

$1.00

$1.25

III. Erster Alleluiavers

Track length0:54

$1.00

$1.25

IV. Zweiter Alleluiavers

Track length1:09

$1.00

$1.25

V. Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Track length5:33

$1.00

$1.25

VI. Credo

Track length3:52

$1.00

$1.25

VII. Sanctus

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.25

VIII. Agnus Dei

Track length3:08

$1.00

$1.25

Pärt: The Beatitudes

Work length7:01

$1.50

$1.85

Andrew Lucas (organ)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Pärt: Annum per annum (K-G-C-S-A)

Work length11:56

$7.00

$8.75

Andrew Lucas (organ)

I. Einleitung

Track length1:15

$1.00

$1.25

II. K[yrie]

Track length1:46

$1.00

$1.25

III. G[loria]

Track length1:34

$1.00

$1.25

IV. C[redo]

Track length1:38

$1.00

$1.25

V. S[anctus]

Track length1:39

$1.00

$1.25

VI. A[gnus]

Track length2:53

$1.00

$1.25

VII. Coda

Track length1:11

$1.00

$1.25

Pärt: Magnificat

Work length7:04

$1.50

$1.85

Rachel Elliott (soprano)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons

Work length14:58

$7.00

$8.75

Polyphony
Stephen Layton

I. O Weisheit

Track length2:00

$1.00

$1.25

II. O Adonai

Track length2:22

$1.00

$1.25

III. O Spross aus Isais Wurzel

Track length1:06

$1.00

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IV. O Schlüssel Davids

Track length2:30

$1.00

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V. O Morgenstern

Track length2:27

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VI. O König aller Völker

Track length1:19

$1.00

$1.25

VII. O Immanuel

Track length3:14

$1.00

$1.25

Pärt: De profundis

Work length7:19

$1.50

$1.85

Andrew Lucas (organ), Christopher Guy (percussion)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton

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Here is some of the most spiritually uplifting music of our generation, sung by that most virtuosic of choirs, Polyphony. Arvo Pärt (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 Pärt an inexorable momentum from a beginning almost out of nothing to a devastating climax.

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Polyphony’s singing is immensely cultivated; bright, clear, immaculately phrased, and gorgeously balanced

Pärt’s music remains an object of unstinting wonder’

A landmark recording. Go and buy it

Classic CD

Outstandingly good on each front: clarity, balance, intonation, timbre, dynamic and textural control and, perhaps most important of all, feeling

Committed and definitive performances of this intense music

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