Pick a Mass!
The Cascadian Chorale is taking the unusual step of letting the live audience members choose our repertoire. We will present movements from ten different Mass settings—works spanning five centuries. Then you, the audience, will vote on which complete Masses we will perform the next season. Who will win? The Renaissance polyphony of Taverner, Palestrina, Lassus, or Victoria? The lush Romantic harmonies of Rheinberger? The varied twentieth-century voices of Vaughan Williams, Howells, or Frank Martin? Or perhaps newer works by Americans William Albright or Max Marcus? Come to the concert and decide for yourself!
This concert was initially scheduled for June 2025, but was postponed due to COVID complications.
Frank Martin – Kyrie, from Mass for double choir (1922)
John Taverner – Gloria, from Western Wind Mass (c.1530?)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Credo, from Missa L’homme armé [a4] (c.1582)
Max Marcus – Sanctus, from Missa brevis (2024) (world premiere)
Orlando Lassus – Agnus Dei, from Missa ‘Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera’ (c.1583)
~ intermission ~
Tomás Luis de Victoria – Kyrie, from Missa ‘Ascendens Christus in altum’ (1592)
Herbert Howells – Gloria, from Mass in the Dorian Mode (1912)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Credo, from Mass in G minor (1921)
William Albright – Sanctus and Benedictus, from Chichester Mass (1974)
Joseph Rheinberger – Agnus Dei, from Cantus Missæ (1878)