Bernstein: MASS Vojtěch Dyk, Wiener Singakademie, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies

• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990):
• 1 MASS: No 1, Antiphon. Kyrie eleison 01:45
• 2 MASS: No. 2, Hymn & Psalm "A Simple Song" 04:28
• 3 MASS: No. 3, Rensory. Alleluia 01:09
• 4 MASS: No. 4, Prefatory Prayers 05:27
• 5 MASS: No. 5, Thrice-Triple Canon. Domionus vobiscum 00:37
• 6 MASS: No. 6, In nomine Patris 01:53
• 7 MASS: No. 7, Prayer for the Congregation "Almighty Father" 01:35
• 8 MASS: No. 8, Epiphany 00:50
• 9 MASS: No. 9, Confiteor 02:28
• 10 MASS: No. 10, Trope "I Don’t Know" 01:46
• 11 MASS: No. 11, Trope "Easy" 05:07
• 12 MASS: No. 12, Meditation I 06:00
• 13 MASS: No. 13, Gloria tibi 01:46
• 14 MASS: No. 14, Gloria in excelsis Deo 01:20
• 15 MASS: No. 15, Trope "Half of the People" 01:25
• 16 MASS: No. 16, Trope "Thank You" 02:51
• 17 MASS: No. 17, Meditation II 04:11
• 18 MASS: No. 18, Epistle "The Word of the Lord" 06:20
• 19 MASS: No. 19, Gospel-Sermon "God Said" 04:47
• 20 MASS: No. 20, Credo 01:03
• 21 MASS: No. 21, Trope "Non Credo" 02:15
• 22 MASS: No. 22, Trope "Hurry" 01:21
• 23 MASS: No. 23, Trope "World" 01:38
• 24 MASS: No. 24, Trope "I Believe in God" 02:10
• 25 MASS: No. 25, De profundis, Pt. 1 (Meditation III) 02:59
• 26 MASS: No. 26, De profundis, Pt. 2 (Offertory) 02:15
• 27 MASS: No. 27, The Lord’s Prayer "Our Father" 01:31
• 28 MASS: No. 28, Trope "I Go On" 02:59
• 29 MASS: No. 29, Sanctus 05:39
• 30 MASS: No. 30, Agnus Dei 06:43
• 31 MASS: No. 31, Fraction "Things Get Broken" 15:20
• 32 MASS: No. 32, Pax Communion "Secret Songs" 09:58
• Total Runtime 01:51:36

Info for Bernstein: MASS

Few people had comparable charisma to him, few like him could blur the borders between serious classical music and entertaining popular music and few apart from him could find access to people of all generations like Bernstein. Living together and love instead of antagonism and hatred permeate his entire lifes work in words and notes. Many of the attributes mentioned apply to MASS, premiered in 1971. For the understanding of this unusual work, it is crucial to note that it is not really seen as a mass composition, but in keeping with Bernsteins intentions as a theatrical piece with the title MASS. So, it is perhaps the most audacious interpretation of the liturgical contents up to then and since then. The responses to the premiere were thoroughly ambivalent, as, apart from enthusiasm, there was also rejection on the part of conservative minded circles. And the clearly conveyed message of peace was partly rejected since it could be understood not least as an unmistakable indictment of the Vietnam War still in progress.

Vojtěch Dyk, baritone
Wiener Singakademie, Company of Music
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

Dennis Russell Davies
is currently Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra and Opera Linz as well as the Basel Symphony Orchestra.

In 2016 he will have held principal positions with orchestras, opera houses and festivals for a continuous 46 years that have also included the Beethovenhalle Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, State Opera Stuttgart, Bonn Opera, American Composers’ Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Cabrillo Music Festival, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

An avid sports fan, especially baseball, and father of six children, he lives in Linz, Austria, and in New York with his wife, pianist Maki Namekawa.

Also a pianist and chamber musician, his activities show an extensive repertoire from the Baroque to today’s new music that he uses in fearlessly structured programming to successfully challenge and inspire audiences on both sides of the Atlantic alongside his close working relationships with composers who include Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, John Cage, Manfred Trojahn, Philip Glass, Heinz Winbeck, Laurie Anderson, Philippe Manoury, Aaron Copland, Hans Werner Henze, Michael Nyman and Kurt Schwertsik.

Dennis Russell Davies’ discography is vast and brought him many honours and awards. Amongst these recordings his complete cycles of Haydn, Honegger and Bruckner symphonies sit alongside him playing Zemlinsky’s piano arrangements for four hands in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte“ with Maki Namekawa as well as orchestral music by JCF Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Bizet, Rott, Reger, Holst, Satie, Hindemith, Weill, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Martinů, Poulenc, Schnittke, Kancheli, Vasks, Tüür and Pärt alongside American compatriots Copland, Bolcom, Carter, Sessions, Wuorinen, Cage, Reich, Brubeck and a large amount by Philip Glass.

Dennis Russell Davies first conducted at the Bayreuth Festival from 1978-80. Since then he has been conducting at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Opéra National de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lincoln Center Festival New York, Houston Grand Opera, Hamburg and the Bavarian State Operas alongside directors like Harry Kupfer, Götz Friedrich, Achim Freyer, Peter Zadek, Robert Altmann, Juri Ljubimov, Daniela Kurz and Robert Wilson.

He has conducted the orchestras of Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, the New York Philharmonic, Munich and Berlin Philharmonic. Currently he works with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Royal Concertgebouworkest, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orquesta Nacional de España, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon SO, Academia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Orchestra Filharmonica della Scala di Milano and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

He inaugurated the new Linz Opera House in April 2013 conducting the world premiere of Philip Glass’ opera The Lost, followed by Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier before starting a new production of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” in 2013/14, completed in 2014/15, and recently made debuts at the Teatro Reál in Madrid and Nikikai Opera, Tokyo.

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