John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Mozart: Great Mass in C minor (1987)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Mozart: Great Mass in C minor (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 53:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 420 210-2 | Recorded: 1986
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 53:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 420 210-2 | Recorded: 1986
Writers on Mozart sometimes take him to task for the alleged mixture of style in the C minor Mass, in particular the use of florid, 'operatic' solo writing amidst all the severe ecclesiastical counterpoint. To object is to misunderstand the nature of Mozart's religion, but it takes a performance as stylistically accomplished as this one to make the point in practice. The usual stumbling-block is the 'Et incarnatus', with its richly embellished solo line and its wind obbligatos. Sung as it is here, by Sylvia McNair, beautifully refined in detail, it's indeed passionate, but passionately devout. McNair is deeply affecting in the 'Christe', taken quite spaciously and set in a measured Kyrie of great cumulative power which also has some fine, clean singing from the Monteverdi Choir.
As with Gardiner's version of the Requiem you might wish for the sound of a boys' choir (why go to the trouble of having authentic instruments if you then use unauthentic voices?) but the bright, forward tone of his sopranos is very persuasive. The music is all strongly characterised: the 'Gloria' jubilant, the 'Qui tollis' grandly elegiac with its solemn, inexorable march rhythm and its dying phrases echoed between the choirs, the 'Credo' full of vitality. Some of the 'Cum sancto spiritu' fugue is too heavily accented, though. Nevertheless, a confident recommendation.— Gramophone Classical Music Guide
Performer:
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Cornelius Hauptmann, bass
Lisa Beznosiuk, flute
Anthony Robson, oboe
Alastair Mitchell, bassoon
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Track List:
01. 1. Kyrie
02. 2a. Gloria: Gloria
03. 2b. Gloria: Laudamus te
04. 2c. Gloria: Gratias
05. 2d. Gloria: Domine
06. 2e. Gloria: Qui tollis
07. 2f. Gloria: Quoniam
08. 2g. Gloria: Jesu Christe
09. 2h. Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu
10. 3a. Credo: Credo
11. 3b. Credo: Et incarnatus est
12. 4. Sanctus
13. 5. Benedictus
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John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir - Mozart: Great Mass in C minor (1987)
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