ROZMANN, AKOS - Mass/Massa

"Ákos Rózmann's Mass consists of twelve electroacoustic compositions created between 1989 and 2004 in the composer's studio and at EMS in Stockholm. Like most of Rózmann's compositions, Mass is a long-form work with a duration of around seven hours. Mass is an enormous fresco of personal observations on the two first parts of the Catholic Mass, Kyrie and Gloria. The intensely subjective perspective on the texts of the Mass is underlined by Rózmann's freezing images -- in his own words -- "tropes", i.e. meditations in Swedish, Hungarian, and Latin over particular words in the mass text or connection to it. A few passages have nothing to do with the mass text: "Organ piece VI"in "Gloria I"(also performed with the subtitle Nocturne in silver and dance) is a sort of lament based on the phrase "Natten gråter"(the night is crying). You find the composer's peculiar sense of humor in the intermezzo following "Gloria I"-- a composed version of the intermission common in Swedish concert houses,