Award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel adds to his impressive catalogue of large-scale liturgical works with a double bill featuring his Mass and Te Deum, composed concurrently and completed in 2022. As with previous works, including Requiem, and the seven-hour long oratorio The Gospel According to Mark, Chris' spirituality infuses his music with melancholy and meditative qualities. Haunting intimacy, a predilection for chant-like melodies and allusions to Medieval music, and plangent orchestral colors, give these two new sacred works a feeling of timelessness.