Mozart: Mass in C minor

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Paul McCreesh and his forces provide a fine blend of vigour and sensitivity, revealing the music's power and constant ingenuity… The soloists are a well-chosen quartet, with particularly notable... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Nov 2005
Catalogue No: 4775744
Label: DG Archiv
Length: 73 minutes

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Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'

Work length48:58

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Camilla Tilling (soprano), Sarah Connolly (soprano), Timothy Robinson (tenor), Neal Davies (tenor)
Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh
Recorded: 2004-10-27
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Town Hall, London

Kyrie

Track length6:57

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Gloria

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Laudamus Te

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Gratias

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Domine

Track length2:46

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Qui tollis

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Quonium

Track length3:50

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Jesu Christe

Track length0:33

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Cum sancto spiritu

Track length3:39

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Credo

Track length3:16

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Et incarnatus est

Track length7:47

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Sanctus

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Benedictus

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Haydn: Berenice, che fai? (Scena di Berenice), Hob XXIVa:10

Work length12:18

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Sarah Connolly (soprano)
Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh
Recorded: 2004-10-27
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Town Hall, London

Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Op. 65

Work length12:29

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Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Gabrieli
Paul McCreesh
Recorded: 2004-10-27
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Town Hall, London

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December 2005

Paul McCreesh and his forces provide a fine blend of vigour and sensitivity, revealing the music's power and constant ingenuity… The soloists are a well-chosen quartet, with particularly notable contributions from Camilla Tilling's free and easy soprano and from Sarah Connolly, who demonstrates her technical command over a wide range.

May 2008

McCreesh and his forces provide a fine blend of vigour and sensitivity, revealing the music's power and constant ingenuity.

2010

Discussing the C minor Mass in a booklet interview, Paul McCreesh remarks that 'any attempt to complete it runs the risk of negating the qual- ity of what survives'. Most editors and performers agree, confining themselves to the sections Mozart actually composed, and filling out the missing parts in the Credo, 'Et incarnatus est' and Sanctus-Osanna.
Paul McCreesh gives us the familiar torso in a reading that combines a smallish chorus numbering around 30 with a period-instrument band. At a fairly urgent tempo, McCreesh's soloists, the radiant Camilla Tilling and the rich-toned Sarah Connolly, are excellent, with Connolly unfazed by her flights into high soprano territory. Elsewhere, Tilling perfectly catches the wondering pastoral innocence of the 'Et incarnatus est', taken at a gently lilting two-in-a-bar. In the choral numbers McCreesh is on top form.
There have been excellent period-instrument recordings from Hogwood and Gardiner (see below), but McCreesh, sharply responsive both to the Mass's neo-Baroque monumentality and its Italianate sensuousness, is at least their match in drama and colour; and DG's recording is exemplary. The Gabrieli Consort sing with precision, fresh, firm tone and marvellous dynamic control, while the strings play with notable grace and refinement in the solo numbers. The Kyrie unfolds with an inexorable tread (McCreesh is specially good at creating and maintaining rhythmic tension), and the 'Cum Sancto Spiritu' fugue, taken at the swiftest possible tempo, combines dancing agility with a thrilling cumulative sweep.
McCreesh's claims as a top recommendation are enhanced by the additional items, two magnificent, quasi-operatic scenas by Haydn and Beethoven. Connolly, in the Haydn (again taking the high tessitura, complete with top Cs, in her stride), and Tilling are both superb, marrying a classical nobility of line with a profound identification with the plights of these suffering heroines in extremis.

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