Kirchner - Missa Moguntina Music CD

"My imagination, once released into the room, pulled me into a huge conflict with myself, because these texts can not compose like a phone book, Defy and encounter a repeatedly into the depths, the definitions shaken and the positions begin to sway. " So the Mainzer composer Volker David Kirchner expressed about the composition of the "Missa Moguntina" that is the Mainz Cathedral quasi "tailored to the body": Many hours has Kirchner spent in this cathedral to the very special atmosphere, the acoustics, the sounds that changing people to take up the space as a whole and to bring his music to sound. The work of the text of the Latin Ordinary measurement lies with Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei basis, where the composer between Gloria and Credo, a musical setting of Psalm 130 "De Profundis clamavi ad te, Domine" intercalates. So is the centerpiece of the exhibition, the credo, started at the lowest possible point, and then - to reach the "Et resurrexit" climax - omitting all historical appositions. "... Kirchner has found the way to new light. His Missa means climax and turning point in his work. The Missa is an experience. The interpretation did experience nature, primarily due to the convincing directing Mathias Breitschaft..." (W.. -E von Lewinski: Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz, November 23, 1993)