Frank Martin - Messe pour double choeur | Nederlands Kamerkoor & Peter Dijkstra 

Probably the best ever.

Wat een inspirerend ! , voordat ik de Johannes passion als bas in ons oratoriumkoor Soli Deo Gloria uit Hoorn ga meezingen in dit jubileumjaar van Frank Martin, Bravissimo... voor Frank Martin, Peter Dijkstra en het Nederlands Kamerkoor!!!!!

What an absolutely spectacular performance of this masterpiece. This choir is simply phenomenal! Tuning perfection, sublime sound, warm, glorious, rich and clear sound! The sopranos bring incredible warmth and clarity. And ATB are all equally beautiful and powerful. The phrasing, the musical shapes, the beautiful vowels, the tight ensemble, all perfection. The expert musicality and musical insight of Mr. Dijkstra make this a truly deeply spiritual and powerfully moving performance.

I have just come across this glorious music. I think my words of praise for both music and performance can add little to all the glowing comments below. Listening to this Mass was an enriching experience.

Being a live performance, this is stellar. Possibly the best live recording of Frank Martin's masterpiece around. Bravi! A joy to listen to!

very good conductor. Congrats on the performance. Bravo!

What a people are they? Messengers for Heaven! I have never heard such a choir in my life, and I have listened to many choirs ... Divine performance of this ingenious work!

The best performance of this masterpiece i experienced was decades ago, same choir but of course different singers. NKK was in that time one of the top choirs in the world. Especially the bass singers gave this choir an unique balance in color of sound.

3:22 Woooooooo 24:20 Woooooo A M A Z I N G!!! AMAZING!!! AMAZING!!! OMG!!! BRAVO!!! GREETINGS FROM CARACAS - VENEZUELA!!!

Here it is Good Friday 2021 and we are still with this pandemic. This piece is perfect for a night such as this. Frank Martin has crafted this beautiful music with not only his amazing musical skill, but also with a deep connection to his spirituality. The final movement is so haunting with its final plea, Donna Nobis Pacem.

Extraordinaire, qui prouve que la musique la plus austère peut être sublimée par l'interprétation

I'm listening these peace nearly evryday since one week- it's amazing-peace and preformance! Congrats!

Wow, wow, wow. Wow for a beautiful composistion, from a choir music lover. Wow for a touching rendition, I get goose bumps, from a former choir singer. Wow for an excellent recording, from somebody who did live choir recordings by himself. And sad, that I cannot share this link anymore with my late father, a choir singer and conductor.

I cried.

Meine Bewunderung für diese makellose Wiedergabe ist nicht mehr zu übertreffen, zumal diese Messe zu meinen absoluten Favoriten der jüngeren A-cappella-Musik zählt. Und von mir schließlich sogar fehlerfrei gesungen wurde. Darauf bin ich stolz... also großer Glückwunsch !!!

Sopran 1 of choir 1 at the very end 25:43 -> OMG OMG OMG OMG - can't stop listening! so easy for them to go so high especially in pp = full of grace

Considering the fact that this is a recording of a live (and NOT a recording-studio) performance, it is truely stunning ... In the Kyrie, there are some audible flaws, no doubt caused by the nervosity of singers in the face of such a demanding and monumental masterpiece and the urge to do it proper justice ... In fact, this is a most unusual piece of music: Frank Martin (an utterly Calvinist musician, befitting his Swiss origins) kept it in his drawer for decades until a friend convinced him to publish this masterpiece which currently is probably the most often performed of all his works ... There are obvious parallels to Bach´s latin "Hohe Messe", the ultimate tribute to a fundamentally catholic form of musical art by a profoundly Lutheran musician ...

Beautiful thank you

Magnificent performance! I wonder if Peter Dijkstra is related to Edsger W. Dijkstra, the noted Computer Scientist…

Sublime music

No word needed, this music is so pure, thank you for sharing!

Sublime!!!!!🙏 Such a great, great performance.

This gave me a glimpse of heaven.

My goodness! Bravissimoooooooooooooo

❤️❤️❤️

I was listeing this concert houndred times... No words can explain feelings with this performance ... thank You!!! ;*

Kyrie 0:00 Gloria 5:44 Credo 11:30 Sanctus 17:15 Agnus Dei 21:37

What a wonderful performance❤️ Bravo❤️ Thank you❤️

Deze mis is een van de grootste klankjuwelen uit de gehele koorliteratuur. Van dit werk zijn er vele uitvoeringen die niet klinken of boeien. Al met al blijkt dit een uitermate moeilijk werk om het tot een bevredigend klankresultaat te brengen. Maar dankzij de keuze van de juiste locatie: een kerk met voldoende nagalm, en waarbij de ruimte in staat is het geluid te dragen in plaats van de dempen of, nog erger, op te zuigen, gecombineerd met een goede muzikale discipline, is deze uitvoering beslist een van de betere. Een werk als dit verdient het om in je innerlijk de diepste gevoelens van ontroering teweeg te brengen,. Daarom is het zo in- treurig dat na afloop geapplaudisseerd wordt: alle opgebouwde sfeer wordt weggeklapt. Alle moeite voor niets...

Ses vraiment génial comme musique sa fait rêver vous ne trouvez pas en tout les qu a pour moi sa fait rêver

Très belle version ! ! ! Bien sur j'étais très mal habitué , avec la MAGNIFIQUE version de cette messe chez erato dans la série " ultima " et dirigée par denis MARTIN .

Wonderful work, and this Chorus' clear yet very warm sound makes this a performance to be treasured.

Wonderfull voices and really interesting intrerpretation, Congratulations. We always love the carefull and the well handle conduction of this kind of difficult repertoire. Thanks again.

Very well done, beautiful sound, very precise intonation, deep understanding of the music on both the conductor's and performers' side. Great video!

A rather shy applause from the audience for a sublime work and rendition. I'd have gone with a stronger reaction for sure!

Wat ontroerend, die stilte (en gezichtsuitdrukking) na de slotnoot!

Thank you !! It's so wonderful, great job !!!

WOW!! May be the best recording of this I've heard! and Live???

What a performance. Stunning.

Lovely. Also -- thank you for helping me learn this piece (my choir's singing it this season).

Amazing rendition!

Marvellous. Is there a chorister, or a choral conductor, whose life isn't enriched by this extraordinary work?

Stunning performance. The choir shows amazing focus and unity. It probably helps that they actually watch the conductor, something even pro choruses don't always do. But the pitch was perfect all around, as was the pronunciation (to my ear), the blend, the shaping of phrases, everything. And I have to say, that's about the best audience I've ever seen. They are enraptured throughout, every single one. The gorgeous piece and the superb performance help of course, but when I watch concerts it always seems like there's one or two people who aren't caught up with the music, no matter how good it is. But not here. Are they musicians themselves? And I'm curious about the venue. Is it even a concert hall? It looks like the lobby to a concert hall, but it has the reverb of a cathedral. Was the reverb added in post-production? (I can keep a secret!) Bravo, singers! I'll have to pull out my Dale Warland version to compare.

Wonderful.

Great performance!

Echt hét signatuur van het NKK. Koorklank, interpretatie, dictie, kraakheldere ritmiek, alles op eenzame hoogte...

Großes Werk und Singen, Gottes Segen.

Bravo!

I m here listening to this , just 3 meters away of the tomb of frank martin , his tomb is under the shadow of a magnicient tree...

17:15 Sanctus

I don't know who is responsible for the publicity. It interrupts this beautiful music at the most impossible moments and destroys this video. Very sad ...

Het viel me op dat de lage stemmen aan de binnenkant staan en de hoge stemmen aan de buitenkant. Martin tekent de opstelling expliciet andersom in de partituur. Ik ben heel benieuwd naar afweging die hiervoor gemaakt is? Is het de akoustiek, de samenklank?

What a great service! What a terrible audience! Continue to reach out to all.

21:24

The recording shows an extraordinarily professional precision. But listen to the sound: after 10 minutes, one gets saturated with the overly bright vocal production, sopranos in the higher register sound like laser beams, the basses are overly lightened to the point that the lower notes don't speak at all. Dijkstra is a wonderful craftsman, but there is clearly no poetry, no subtlety at all in his craft. Simple example: Martin was a deeply spiritual man. Think of that and just listen to the Kyrie of this recording: is it a profound plea for mercy coming from the bottom of the composer's soul or a sequence of chords with dynamics attached that have to be sorted out and tuned properly? There is a reason why here in Sweden the Swedish Radio Choir got so tired of Peter...

L song lol