Title: Christopher Tyler Nickel: Mass; Te Deum Artist: Vancouver Chamber Choir Label: Avie Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 822252274820 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-04-11 Number of Discs: 1
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).
Tracks: 1.1 Mass~I. Kyrie 1.2 Mass~II. Gloria 1.3 Mass~III. Domine Deus 1.4 Mass~IV. Credo 1.5 Mass~V. Sanctus 1.6 Mass~VI. Benedictus 1.7 Mass~VII. Agnus Dei 1.8 Te Deum~I. Te Deum laudamus 1.9 Te Deum~II. Tu Rex gloriae 1.10 Te Deum~III. Salvum fac populum tuum 1.11 Te Deum~IV. Miserere nostri
