Vancouver Chamber Choir - Christopher Tyler Nickel: Mass; Te Deum - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel adds to his impressive catalogue of large-scale liturgical works with a double-bill featuring his Mass and Te Deum, composed concurrently and completed in 2022. As with previous works - including Requiem, and the seven-hour long oratorio The Gospel According to Mark - Chris' spirituality infuses his music with melancholy and meditative qualities. Haunting intimacy, a predilection for chant-like melodies and allusions to Medieval music, and plangent orchestral colours, give these two new sacred works a feeling of timelessness.Listeners will recognise Chris' penchant for unusual combinations of instruments - a quartet from the oboe family in both works, with the lesser heard oboe d'amore and bass oboe alongside oboe and cor anglais; and a pair of Wagner tubas in the Mass.Chris once again collaborates with soprano Catherine Redding, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra under the baton of Clyde Mitchell - who on previous releases of Chris' music have delivered Inchemotionally stirring performancesInch (The WholeNote). Album Tracks 1. Mass~I. Kyrie 2. Mass~II. Gloria 3. Mass~III. Domine Deus 4. Mass~IV. Credo 5. Mass~V. Sanctus 6. Mass~VI. Benedictus 7. Mass~VII. Agnus Dei 8. Te Deum~I. Te Deum laudamus 9. Te Deum~II. Tu Rex gloriae 10. Te Deum~III. Salvum fac populum tuum 11. Te Deum~IV. Miserere nostri