The Voice of the Beloved: Choral Works
Netherlands Radio Choir
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Release Date: 10/10/2025
The Netherlands Radio Choir and Benjamin Goodson present The Voice of the Beloved, a powerful collection of 20th-century sacred choral works by Frank Martin, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, and Olivier Messiaen. At its heart is Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, a deeply personal expression of faith composed in 1922 and kept private for decades. Its austere beauty and luminous harmonies make it one of the most moving sacred works of the last century. Daniel-Lesur’s Le Cantique des cantiques transforms the Song of Songs into a sensual and spiritual choral tapestry, weaving up to twelve voices into a radiant soundscape. Messiaen’s O sacrum convivium, a brief but transcendent motet, completes the program with shimmering reverence.
1: Kyrie
2: Gloria
3: Credo
4: Sanctus - Benedictus
5: Agnus Dei
6: Dialogue
7: La Voix Du Bien-aimé
8: Le Songe
9: Le Roi Salomon
10: Le Jardin Clos
11: La Sulamite
12: Épithalame
13: O Sacrum Convivium