{"id":302,"date":"2010-11-23T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=302"},"modified":"2010-11-23T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T12:04:11","slug":"all-of-a-piece-martins-mass-for-double-choir-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2010\/11\/23\/all-of-a-piece-martins-mass-for-double-choir-on-line\/","title":{"rendered":"All of a piece: Martin’s ‘Mass for Double Choir’ on-line"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve not heard Swiss composer Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir<\/em><\/a>, then you should have: and now you can hear it on-line, in a live performance being streamed over on Q2<\/a> (click on the ‘play’ icon to launch).<\/p>\n

The Latvian National Choir gave a performance as part of the Lincoln Centre’s inaugural ‘White Light Festival.’ There are also pieces by Arvo P\u00e4rt and the wonderful Veljo Tormis as well.<\/p>\n

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Frank expression: Martin<\/p><\/div>\n

A deeply religious composer, Martin kept the manuscript to the Mass<\/em> hidden for nearly forty years, feeling that the piece represented such a personal expression of belief that it should not be made public. It remained unperformed until 1963; Martin died in 1974.<\/p>\n

Click here to visit the Q2 page<\/a>: you won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n