MISSA GAIA / EARTH MASS
Paul Winter
(LMUS 0002)

ARTISTS  |  TRACKING  |  THE CREATION OF THE 'MISSA GAIA '

Integrating world music with songs from the wild to celebrate the whole earth as a sacred space, the MISSA GAIA is performed annually on the first Sunday in October in the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York. It was commissioned by the Dean of the Cathedral as a contemporary ecumencial Mass.

Recorded in the Grand Canyon and during two performances in the Cathedral, the album of this popular contemporary Mass for the Earth features the Paul Winter Consort, Susan Osborn, the voices of wolf, whale, eagle, harp seal, Amazonian musical wren, Russian loon, and the choruses of the Cathedral.

"Winter and company have achieved a distinguished triumph in combining divergent music styles and imaginatively wedding voices, instrumentation and recorded sounds of a tundra wolf, canyon and musical wrens, harp seals, a flight of loons and singing humpback whales."
(THE BOSTON GLOBE)

TRACKING 1. For the Beauty of the Earth 2. Adoro te devote 3. For the Beauty of the Earth 4. Canticle of Brother Sun 5. Kyrie 6. Beatitudes 7. Mystery 8. Return to Gaia 9. Sanctus and Benedictus 10. Stained Glass Morning 11. Sun Psalm 12. The Promise of a Fisherman 13. The Blue Green Hills of Earth 14. Agnus Dei 15. Let Us Go Forth in Peace

ARTISTS Paul Winter - soprano sax Nancy Rumbel - oboe and English horn Eugene Friesen - cello Jim Scott - classical and 12-string guitar Susan Osborn - voice Paul Halley - organ and piano Ted Moore - percussion Gordon Johnson - bass Jim Saporito - percussion Guilherme Franco - percussion Phil Markowitz - piano on 'Beatitudes' Cathedral Chorus and Choristers, conducted by Gil Robbins and Paul Halley Produced by Paul Winter and Oscar Castro-Neves © 1982, Living Music Records, Inc.

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