Bob Chilcott – Little Jazz Mass
A highly original and effective concert setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various movements embrace a variety of jazz styles.
Ariel Ramirez – Misa Criolla
In 1963 Ramírez created his widely popular Misa Criolla on a Spanish translation of the traditional liturgical text, including folkloric interpolations such as the “lara, lara” passage in the Credo. Each movement of the compact mass is based on specific folk material, particularly dance rhythms: the austere vidala-baguala of northern Argentina for the Kyrie, the carnavalito and yaraví from the same area for the Gloria, the obsessive chacerera trunca from central Argentina for the Credo, the syncopated Bolivian carnaval cochabambino for the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei is composed in the characteristic style of the southern pampas.
Fanshawe – African Sanctus
African Sanctus is a 1972 choral Mass and is the best-known work of British composer and collector of world musics David Fanshawe.
