Christopher Tyler Nickel: Mass • Te Deum
Catherine Redding, soprano
Vancouver Chamber Choir
Kari Turunen, chorus master
Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra
Clyde Mitchell, conductor
11th April 2025
AV2748 | 822252274820
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Summary:
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 “emotionally stirring performances” (The WholeNote).
Tracklist:
Mass
1. I. Kyrie (Andante)
2. II. Gloria (Brightly)
3. III. Domine Deus (Andante)
4. IV. Credo (Adagio)
5. V. Sanctus (Solemn)
6. VI. Benedictus (Solemn)
7. VII. Agnus Dei (Lento)
Te Deum
8. I. Te Deum laudamus (Andante)
9. II. Tu Rex gloriae (Andante)
10. III. Salvum fac populum tuum (Andante con moto)
11. IV. Miserere nostri (Grave)
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