solo soprano - Duration: 14 minutes
Missa Resurrectionis, for unaccompanied soprano solo, was composed during the Holy Week of 1994. In it the harmonic potential of the modal or chromatic melodic line is firmly based on tonality. The absence of instrumental accompaniment answers the dual concern of economy and expression, the voice being allowed to convey, in the strongest manner, the meaning of the text which it must always serve.
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World Premiere: Kerstin Pettersson, 21 September 1994, the Church of Santa Maria, Malmo, Sweden.
Recording: PRCD 545 (1995)
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