Missa
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.WER-62182

By Creed, Gartner, Gottwald, Pesko, RIAS Kammerchor, SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Schiml, Sudfunk-Chor, Whittlesey, Widmer, and Zsigmond Szathmary. By Dieter Schnebel. Listening CD (2 discs). Wergo #WER 62182. Published by Wergo (NX.WER-62182).

In a commentary on the group of works called "Tradition", Dieter Schnebel writes that he wishes to track down what is urgent and lively in the time-honoured forms and contexts of the past and lead them to a new present and future in a dynamic way. As one of the most significant works in which that is displayed with great clarity, the "Missa" stands out from Schnebel's oeuvre.

"Missa" has got an ecumenical and political character: elements of every kind of Christian church music - and also music of the synagogue - are incorporated into it. Over and above this it acquires a specific connection with Berlin: in memory of the "Bekennende Kirche" [confessing church] in particular of Martin Niemoller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth and the first performance (1988) took place in the Church of Jesus Christ in Dahlem, where Martin Niemoller once preached and which was once the centre of the church resistance movement against the Nazis.

"Missa" ends with the "Dona nobis pacem" in a multi-lingual cry for peace - rebellion and unfulfilled plea in one.



This production received the quarterly German Record Critics' Award!

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