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Leighton & Martin: Masses for Double Choir

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The choral forces of King’s College, London, are well focused, clean and expressive. Occasionally one or two of the solo voices show their youth, but the whole is delivered with such conviction,... — Choir & Organ, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: DCD34211
Label: Delphian
Length: 63 minutes

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Leighton: Mass for Double Choir, op. 44

Work length28:58

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Mimi Doulton (soprano), Caitlin Goreing (alto), William Hester (tenor), Joseph Edwards (bass), James Orford (organ)
The Choir of King's College London
Joseph Fort
Recorded: 18-20 April 2018
Recording Venue: Church of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London, UK

I. Kyrie

Track length5:47

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II. Gloria

Track length5:48

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III. Credo

Track length3:30

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IV. Sanctus

Track length5:04

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V. Benedictus

Track length2:35

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VI. Agnus Dei

Track length6:14

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Martin, F: Mass for Double Choir

Work length28:37

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The Choir of King's College London
Joseph Fort
Recorded: 18-20 April 2018
Recording Venue: Church of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London, UK

I. Kyrie

Track length5:34

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II. Gloria

Track length6:53

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III. Credo

Track length6:30

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IV. Sanctus

Track length4:49

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V. Agnus Dei

Track length4:51

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Alain: Postlude pour l'office des Complies

Work length6:00

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James Orford (organ)

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In the 1920s Frank Martin, a Swiss Calvinist by upbringing, created a radiant Latin setting of the Mass for double choir, only to return it to the bottom drawer, considering it to be ‘a matter between God and myself’.

It was finally released for performance forty years later, around the same time that the Edinburgh-based composer Kenneth Leighton made his own double-choir setting – a work with moments of striking stillness, delightful to choral singers and yet rarely recorded.

Contrasts and comparisons abound at every point in this fascinating pairing of Masses from the supposedly godless twentieth century, and are brought out to the full by The Choir of King’s College London’s impassioned performances. A short organ postlude by the teenage Jehan Alain, written on retreat in a monastery in 1930, follows like a voluntary concluding the liturgy.

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March 2019

The choral forces of King’s College, London, are well focused, clean and expressive. Occasionally one or two of the solo voices show their youth, but the whole is delivered with such conviction, even passion, that this matters not. By way of a concluding voluntary, James Orford plays Alain’s Postlude pour l’office de compline.

May 2019

Despite their outstanding performance of the Leighton, there is a real sense of involvement about the choir’s singing in the Martin which is in an altogether different league…Above all, this is a performance of astonishing intensity and musicality. A powerfully moving interpretation of a powerfully moving work.

June 2019

King’s College London Choir, unlike their namesake in Cambridge, is a mixed choir with women as sopranos and altos. They sing with great assurance and flexibility and the sopranos take no prisoners in their attack on their high lines … With the Finzi Singers’ version of the Leighton now available only as a download, this is the only current disc available of the Leighton … if you go for this coupling, you will not be disappointed.

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