Re: Willcocks' Mass in Time of War
- From: "A. Brain" <abrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:36:21 GMT
"Simon Roberts" <sdsr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was delighted to discover last weekend that this has finally been
issued on CD
(I won't say for the first time; for all I know, it's been available
in Japan
somehow or other), though I almost missed it: it snuck into the
catalogue as the
filler for Willcocks' Creation, which had previously been on CD all by
itself.
Anyway, it's on Classics for Pleasure 09463 75929 22. The recording
isn't
exactly free from flaws, but good recordings of this mass are hardly
thick on
the ground and after all these years it's probably still my favorite
(and, I
would say, a superior performance/recording to his better known
recording of the
Nelson Mass on Decca/Argo).
I believe I posted on this some time ago.
But while on the subject, the
Willcocks "Creation" was formerly on HMV
two discs.
And I recently got around to listening to
a Creation from some sort of Haydn festival
in Vienna in 1994. An oddity in that it
features Max Cencic, "boy soprano"
as Gabriel, yet MC was clearly no longer
a boy who would have a treble voice.
(as he was when he sang the finale of the
Mahler 4 for Nanut six years earlier, which
is, surprisingly, a great recording.)
The Vienna "Creation" is on Capriccio, a cheapie.
Live performance, large scale and very much in
the spirit of the piece. Boys choir.
What about Bernstein's recording of the Mass?
Why hasn't Sony re-released that as an anti-war
statement?
--
A. Brain
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