Missa Sancti Albanus (2017, rev. 2023)

Choral: SacredServices
Written By Tobias Wolf

SSATB

Duration:
13′

First performance:
18 November 2023
Caritas Chamber Choir, Benedict Preece (conductor), St Leonard’s Church, Hythe, Kent, UK

Belgian première:
04 August 2024
Lassenne Vocale, Ivan Yohan (conductor), Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula, Brussels, Belgium

Score

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Programme note

The Missa Sancti Albanus is an attempt at an unaccompanied mass setting which is largely polyphonic and inspired by the great settings by the Renaissance masters. The piece uses an earlier motet, Prayer to St Alban (2016), as the Kyrie and this material then informs the following movements. As well as inspiration from the likes of Palestrina and Byrd, there is much from other more recent composers such as Vaughan Williams, Martin, Howells and MacMillan.

PAC

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf is a photographer, musician and artist based in North East Scotland. With a background in conducting, composition and hybrid media, his creative practice has long been shaped by an interest in atmosphere, structure and the relationship between sound, image and place. Photography has been a lifelong companion — a way of slowing down, noticing light, and finding quiet meaning in everyday scenes.

https://www.tpwolf.com
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