Bruckner’s E Minor Mass and a selection of his profoundly beautiful motets were selected by Sir Stephen Cleobury as his last album at King’s, recorded only a few months before his death. Perhaps the deepest and most spiritual of Bruckner’s masses, the ‘Mass in E minor’ is unusual in it’s scoring for choir, wind and brass. It is recorded here by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in King’s College Chapel. The album is accompanied by a specially-commissioned Appreciation for Sir Stephen, written by Professor Iain Fenlon, as well as Shades of the Past in Bruckner’s Sacred Music – another commissioned essay on Bruckner’s works by Dr. Martin Ennis.
- 1 Ecce Sacerdos Magnus, Wab 13
- 2 Mass No. 2 in E minor, Wab 27
- 3 Mass No. 2 in E minor, Wab 27
- 4 Mass No. 2 in E minor, Wab 27
- 5 Mass No. 2 in E minor, Wab 27
- 6 Mass No. 2 in E minor, Wab 27
- 7 Mass No. 2 in E minor, Wab 27
- 8 Tota Pulchra Es, Wab 45
- 9 Virga Jesse, Wab 52
- 10 Locus Iste, Wab 23
- 11 Ave Maria, Wab 6
- 12 Christus Factus Est, Wab 11