Netherlands Radio Choir - The Voice of the Beloved - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 it's heart is Martin's Mass for Double Choir, a deeply personal expression of faith composed in 1922 and kept private for decades. It's 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.Following their acclaimed 2023 Rheinberger & Mendelssohn Choral Works, the choir returns with a recording that reveals the sacred not only in worship, but in the raw, expressive power of the human voice. Album Tracks 1. Mass for double choir a cappella~I. Kyrie 2. Mass for double choir a cappella~II. Gloria 3. Mass for double choir a cappella~III. Credo 4. Mass for double choir a cappella~IV. Sanctus - Benedictus 5. Mass for double choir a cappella~V. Agnus Dei 6. Cantique des cantiques~No. 1, Dialogue 7. Cantique des cantiques~No. 2, La voix du bien-aimé 8. Cantique des cantiques~No. 3, Le songe 9. Cantique des cantiques~No. 4, Le Roi Salomon 10. Cantique des cantiques~No. 5, Le jardin clos 11. Cantique des cantiques~No. 6, La Sulamite 12. Cantique des cantiques~No. 7, Épithalame 13. O sacrum convivium