Brumel: Earthquake Mass

Brumel: Earthquake Mass
Manuel Mota / Graindelavoix - Björn Schmelzer
Glossa 32118 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Il Culto delle Pietre (instrumental)
  2. Kyrie "Et ecce terræ motus"
  3. Gloria "Et ecce terræ motus"
  4. Kleist (instrumental)
  5. Credo "Et ecce terræ motus"
  6. On the Natural History of Destruction (instrumental)
  7. Sanctus "Et ecce terræ motus"
  8. Benedictus "Et ecce terræ motus"
  9. The Parasite (instrumental)
  10. Agnus Dei "Et ecce terræ motus"

Performers: Teodora Tommasi (soprano), Florencia Menconi (soprano), Andrew Hallock (alto), Albert Riera (tenor), Andrés Miravete (tenor), Marius Peterson (tenor), Tomàs Maxé (bass), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Berlinde Deman (serpent), Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornett), Pierre-Antoine Tremblay (horn), Christopher Price (horn); Manuel Mota (electric guitar)

Playing time: 77'

Recording date: September 2023 (Bern, live); released: 2024

The instrumental tracks are inspired by the neorealist documentary Il culto delle pietre (1967). There is also no effort made to fill the gaps in the deteriorating manuscript. These are left as musical gaps and substituted with improvising instruments, such that instruments (led by electric guitar) seem slowly to overwhelm the voices by the Agnus.

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Todd M. McComb