Todd / St Martins Voices- Passion Music / Jazz Missa Brevis
Will Todd has established himself as one of the UK's most popular choral composers. His anthem, The Call of Wisdom, was performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a TV audience of 45 million people. His breakthrough work, Mass in Blue (originally titled Jazz Mass), has been performed hundreds of times all over the world. Passion Music was commissioned for the choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields and continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Mass in Blue. The structure highlights different points in the Passion story, beginning with a new setting of 'Greater love has no man' and including an evocative Stabat Mater, a movement focusing on the seven last words of Christ, and a setting of 'Were you there when they crucified my Lord?'. The Jazz Missa Brevis gives new life to the sung Latin Mass texts in an accessible, short setting which embraces a variety of jazz styles, from the swinging jazz waltz Kyrie to the up-beat Latin-groove Gloria. The smooth jazz ballad Sanctus, 7/8 Benedictus and soulful Agnus Dei complete this inspiring Mass setting.
Tracklist:
- Passion Music: Greater Love
- Passion Music: We Believe
- Passion Music: A New Commandment
- Passion Music: Love Unknown
- Passion Music: Stabat Mater
- Passion Music: The Seven Last Words From The Cross
- Passion Music: My Love Has Died For Me
- Passion Music: Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
- Passion Music: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
- God So Loved The World
- I Am Changed
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Kyrie
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Gloria
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Sanctus
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Benedictus
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei
- Tantum Ergo
- What Sweeter Music
Will Todd has established himself as one of the UK's most popular choral composers. His anthem, The Call of Wisdom, was performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a TV audience of 45 million people. His breakthrough work, Mass in Blue (originally titled Jazz Mass), has been performed hundreds of times all over the world. Passion Music was commissioned for the choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields and continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Mass in Blue. The structure highlights different points in the Passion story, beginning with a new setting of 'Greater love has no man' and including an evocative Stabat Mater, a movement focusing on the seven last words of Christ, and a setting of 'Were you there when they crucified my Lord?'. The Jazz Missa Brevis gives new life to the sung Latin Mass texts in an accessible, short setting which embraces a variety of jazz styles, from the swinging jazz waltz Kyrie to the up-beat Latin-groove Gloria. The smooth jazz ballad Sanctus, 7/8 Benedictus and soulful Agnus Dei complete this inspiring Mass setting.
Tracklist:
- Passion Music: Greater Love
- Passion Music: We Believe
- Passion Music: A New Commandment
- Passion Music: Love Unknown
- Passion Music: Stabat Mater
- Passion Music: The Seven Last Words From The Cross
- Passion Music: My Love Has Died For Me
- Passion Music: Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
- Passion Music: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
- God So Loved The World
- I Am Changed
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Kyrie
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Gloria
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Sanctus
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Benedictus
- Jazz Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei
- Tantum Ergo
- What Sweeter Music