Composer: Anton Bruckner
Performer: Choir of King’s College Cambridge
Orchestra: Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields
Conductor: Sir Stephen Cleobury
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: King’s College
Release: 2020
Size: 970 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Ecce sacerdos magnus
Mass No. 2 in E minor
02. I. Kyrie
03. II. Gloria
04. III. Credo
05. IV. Sanctus
06. V. Benedictus
07. VI. Agnus Dei
08. Tota pulchra es, antiphon, WAB 46
09. Virga Jesse floruit
10. Locus iste, WAB 23
11. Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6
12. Christus factus est, WAB 11
Bruckner’s E Minor Mass and a selection of his profoundly beautiful motets were selected by Sir Stephen Cleobury as his last album at King’s, recorded only a few months before his death. Perhaps the deepest and most spiritual of Bruckner’s masses, the ‘Mass in E minor’ is unusual in its scoring for choir, wind and brass. It is recorded here by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in King’s College Chapel. The album is accompanied by a specially-commissioned Appreciation for Sir Stephen, written by Professor Iain Fenlon, as well as Shades of the Past in Bruckner’s Sacred Music – another commissioned essay on Bruckner’s works by Dr. Martin Ennis.