Special offer. The Voice of the Beloved
Netherlands Radio Choir, Benjamin Goodson
Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir has emotional depths beneath its austere surface. From the outset, there's a luminous confidence in the Dutch singers' sound, as the two choirs ebb and flow...
Special offer. The Voice of the Beloved
Netherlands Radio Choir, Benjamin Goodson
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Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir has emotional depths beneath its austere surface. From the outset, there's a luminous confidence in the Dutch singers' sound, as the two choirs ebb and flow...
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The Netherlands Radio Choir and Benjamin Goodson present The Voice of the Beloved, a powerful collection of 20th-century sacred choral works by Frank Martin, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, and Olivier Messiaen. At its heart is Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, a deeply personal expression of faith composed in 1922 and kept private for decades. Its austere beauty and luminous harmonies make it one of the most moving sacred works of the last century. Daniel-Lesur’s Le Cantique des cantiques transforms the Song of Songs into a sensual and spiritual choral tapestry, weaving up to twelve voices into a radiant soundscape. Messiaen’s O sacrum convivium, a brief but transcendent motet, completes the program with shimmering reverence.
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December 2025
Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir has emotional depths beneath its austere surface. From the outset, there's a luminous confidence in the Dutch singers' sound, as the two choirs ebb and flow in their antiphonal exchanges. The Gloria dances with playfulness and joy.
