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In many ways, Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Mass for un-accompanied double choir presents a framework to his compositional legacy.
He first penned it in his thirties (in the 1920s), but left it aside until the urge to complete it came in 1963. It was published in 1973. Martin died a year later. The Mass is beautifully written, its mellifluous lines soaked in plainsong inspiration, coloured judiciously by Martin’s typically soft-edged dissonance. The RIAS-Kammerchor, under director Daniel Reuss, complete a fine disc with Martin’s Shakespeare-inspired Songs of Ariel, and Olivier Messiaen’s superb Cinq Rechants and the sumptuous motet O Sacrum Convivium.
