The Voice of the Beloved

The Voice of the Beloved

The Voice of the Beloved

Artist(s):

Netherlands Radio Choir, Benjamin Goodson

Composer(s):

Frank Martin, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Olivier Messiaen
Release Date: 10-10-2025
PTC: 5187402
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Frank Martin (1890-1974)

Mass for double choir a cappella

1) I. Kyrie 4:43
2) II. Gloria 5:32
3) III. Credo 5:35
4) IV. Sanctus – Benedictus 4:05
5) V. Agnus Dei 4:26

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908-2002)

Le Cantique des cantiques

6) No. 1, Dialogue 2:59
7) No. 2, La voix du bien-aimé 3:34
8) No. 3, Le songe 1:34
9) No. 4, Le Roi Salomon 1:36
10) No. 5, Le jardin clos 4:11
11) No. 6, La Sulamite 3:43
12) No. 7, Épithalame 2:57

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

13)

O sacrum convivium 5:38
Total Tracks 13
Total Duration 00hr 50min

Album information

SACRED CHORAL MASTERWORKS FROM THE NETHERLANDS RADIO CHOIR

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.

Following their acclaimed 2023 release Rheinberger & Mendelssohn: Choral Works, the choir returns with a recording that reveals the sacred not only in worship, but in the raw, expressive power of the human voice.

Released physically on standard CD.

REVIEWS:

Sonograma: “Goodson, who reaffirms his ability to mediate between tradition and modernity, manages to extract from the choir a wide chromatic range and, at the same time, achieve a sonic and spiritual beauty that is difficult to surpass.”

Opus Klassiek: “This British conductor proves himself once again through his passion and precision, feeling equally at home in early, classical, and romantic music as in modern and contemporary works.”

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