Artist: Académie Vocale de Suisse Romande, Renaud Bouvier, Dominique Tille
Album: Villard & Martin: Doubles messes a cappella
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 58:54
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 990 MB
Tracklist:
02. Anne Montandon – Messe à six voix, Op. 44: II. Gloria (07:59)
03. Anne Montandon – Messe à six voix, Op. 44: III. Credo (09:46)
04. Anne Montandon – Messe à six voix, Op. 44: IV. Sanctus (02:48)
05. Anne Montandon – Messe à six voix, Op. 44: V. Benedictus (02:57)
06. Anne Montandon – Messe à six voix, Op. 44: VI. Agnus Dei (05:49)
07. Dominique Tille – Messe pour double Choeur a cappella: I. Kyrie (04:44)
08. Dominique Tille – Messe pour double Choeur a cappella: II. Gloria (05:08)
09. Dominique Tille – Messe pour double Choeur a cappella: III. Credo (06:00)
10. Dominique Tille – Messe pour double Choeur a cappella: IV. Sanctus (04:11)
11. Dominique Tille – Messe pour double Choeur a cappella: V. Agnus Dei (04:29)
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Valentin Villard’s Mass for six voices is written for choir a cappella and a sextet of soloists within the ensemble. In this sense, it is also a mass for double choir, one being contained within the other. Written between 2008 and 2011, it is one of the young composer’s few pieces that were not commissioned. Its writing is ample, generous and dense; it explores the choir’s orchestral dimension, building on the tonality or breaking away from it, giving rise to refined and precise harmonic clouds through astonishing aleatory passages. Its performance is also very tricky: through the simplicity of his writing, the composer achieves the musical density and depth that are now his hallmark.
With this recording of Frank Martin and Valentin Villard’s Masses, the Académie vocale de Suisse romande intends to compare two works that present a strong bond of filiation. The ensemble also wishes to value its close relationship with past and present composers from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.