Leighton | Martin: Masses for Double Choir

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Leighton | Martin: Masses for Double ChoirSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO 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

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It was rediscovered recently by Peter Hill

his 2008 setting of an anonymous Middle English lyric

surely one of the most exciting voices in the new generation of British singers

Milanese composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore assembled a collection of sacred music and sent it across the Alps to the publisher Peter Schoeffer in Strasbourg

Total playing time: 1:10:22

"sung here with committed care and attention to nuance and depth of feeling by the Choir of King's College London"

Total playing time: CD1: 78:47 CD2: 67:14

with impressive engineering and clear libretto"

"an outstanding player with a huge expressive range: both composers are fortunate indeed to have such an advocate"

"The three attractive items by Joan Trimble (1915-2000) leave one wanting more

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