BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales & Adrian Partington - Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis (2025)
BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales & Adrian Partington - Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 265 MB | Tracks: 16 | 66:34
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 265 MB | Tracks: 16 | 66:34
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita
Inscribed to the memory of Grace Williams’s friend Nancy Elizabeth Jenkins, who died of cancer shortly before the work was completed, Grace Williams’s Missa Cambrensis is a full-scale setting of the Mass in Latin and Welsh, scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, mixed chorus, boys’ choir, orchestra and speaker. The orchestral forces required consist of two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes, (second doubling cor anglais), two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (two players: cymbals, glockenspiel, tubular bells, tamtam), piano and strings.
Missa Cambrensis is Grace Williams’s magnum opus, the last major musical statement by a composer of rare integrity. It dominates all her other concert works, investing the score with a commanding, almost legendary status. A. F. Leighton Thomas once commented on ‘the essentially human quality of her music’ and this directly communicative aspect of her writing shines through the score. Her honesty and sincerity inform her individual treatment of the Latin text and the Welsh additions to the material are a natural corollary of the pride she took in her nationality.
As Malcolm Boyd concluded, the Missa Cambrensis is ‘a work of great power, rich in incident, generous in feeling, and exemplary in craftsmanship’. (Paul Conway, 2024)
April Fredrick, soprano
Angharad Lyddon, mezzo-soprano
Robert Murray, tenor
Paul Carey Jones,bass
Dr. Rowan Willliams,narrator
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington,conductor
Tracklist:
01. Missa Cambrensis: I. Kyrie
02. Missa Cambrensis: IIa. Glória in excélsis Deo
03. Missa Cambrensis: IIb. Laudamus te
04. Missa Cambrensis: IIc. Domine Deus
05. Missa Cambrensis: IId. Qui tollis peccata mundi
06. Missa Cambrensis: IIe. Quonium to solus sanctus
07. Missa Cambrensis: IIf. Cum Sancto Spiritu
08. Missa Cambrensis: IIIa. Credo in unum Deum
09. Missa Cambrensis: IIIb. Carol Nadolig
10. Missa Cambrensis: IIIc. Credo. Conclusion
11. Missa Cambrensis: IIId. Beatitudes
12. Missa Cambrensis: IIIe. Crucifixus
13. Missa Cambrensis: IVa. Sanctus
14. Missa Cambrensis: IVb. Benedictus
15. Missa Cambrensis: Va. Agnus Dei
16. Missa Cambrensis: Vb. Dona nobis pacem
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