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Missa Unitatis
Giuseppe Verdi - Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Nico Muhly - Jean Mouton - Francis Poulenc - Erik Esenvalds

Missa Unitatis

Cappella Pratensis

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917271126
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Catalog number: CC 72711
Releasedate: 27-10-17
- Here is a rare excursion of Cappella Pratensis in the field of contemporary music
- The Missa Unitatis was commissioned by Dutch Confraternity of the Illustrious Lady to Antony Pitts.
- The Mass four movements are intertwined by choral music by ancient composers like Mouton and Clemens non Papa as well as by contemporary ones like Nico Muhly and Eriks Esenvalds.

This program around the Missa Unitatis represents a meeting of many different musical travellers. Shortly after making its home in the southern Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2006, Cappella Pratensis renewed its acquaintance with an organisation that has been travelling through some 700 years of history, the Confraternity of the Illustrious Lady. To celebrate the Year of Religious Heritage in 2008, the Confraternity commissioned a work by the British composer Antony Pitts. The commemoration, in 2016, of 500 years since the death of Hieronymus Bosch was the ideal opportunity to première the version of the Missa Unitatis for double chorus. The Nederlands Kamerkoor graciously accepted the invitation to join forces with Cappella Pratensis, and the celebrated British musician Stephen Layton brought his wealth of choral experience as conductor.