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This rounds off Gardiner's excellent series of the six late Masses, all supreme masterpieces, which Haydn wrote for the nameday each year of the Princess Esterhazy. There's also room for a valuable... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 14th Apr 2003
Catalogue No: 4708192
Label: Philips
Length: 78 minutes

Haydn: Mass, Hob. XXII:10 in B flat major 'Heiligmesse'

Work length34:11

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Joanne Lunn (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Brindley Sherratt (bass (vocal)), Elinor Carter (contralto), Julian Clarkson (bass (vocal))
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 2001-11-20
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Kyrie

Track length4:24

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Gloria in excelsis Deo

Track length2:03

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Gratias agimus tibi

Track length3:39

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Quoniam tu solus Sanctus

Track length2:35

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Credo in unum Deum

Track length1:20

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Et incarnatus est

Track length3:55

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Et resurrexit

Track length3:47

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Sanctus

Track length1:45

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Benedictus

Track length4:57

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Agnus Dei

Track length3:13

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Dona nobis pacem

Track length2:33

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Haydn: Mass, Hob. XXII: 9 in C major 'Paukenmesse'

Work length38:05

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Joanne Lunn (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Brindley Sherratt (bass (vocal))
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 2001-11-20
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Kyrie

Track length4:52

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Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

Track length2:44

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Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi

Track length4:39

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Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus

Track length2:23

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Credo: Credo in unum Deum

Track length1:16

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Credo: Et incarnatus est

Track length3:57

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Credo: Et resurrexit tertia die

Track length4:16

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Sanctus

Track length2:23

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Benedictus

Track length5:47

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Agnus Dei

Track length3:04

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Dona Nobis

Track length2:44

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Haydn: Insanae et vanae curae (1809) [spurious]

Work length6:23

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 2001-11-20
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

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This rounds off Gardiner's excellent series of the six late Masses, all supreme masterpieces, which Haydn wrote for the nameday each year of the Princess Esterhazy. There's also room for a valuable extra in the motet Insanae et vanaecurae. Haydn salvaged it from his Italian oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia, after he had pruned it, saying that it was 'too good to waste'. With a Latin text replacing the original Italian, it inspires Gardiner and his brilliant team to a searing performance, very different from those you'd get from a cathedral choir.
The Masses also find Gardiner on incisive form. The contrast with Hickox's Chandos cycle is most striking in the Gloria of the Heiligmesse.
Where Hickox makes the music swagger happily, Gardiner directs a biting, crisp reading, with spotlit drums and trumpets and marginally less spring in the rhythm. Contrasts elsewhere are similar, if less marked; Hickox is warmer and more joyful where Gardiner, with some extreme speeds is consistently crisp and fresh.
Both Masses were written in 1796 and the Heiligmesse first performed on the Princess's nameday that year. The Paukenmesse was held over until 1797, though it had been heard in Vienna the previous December. Not only are both Masses smaller in scale than the succeeding four, the Paukenmesse at least is more lyrical, less grandly symphonic that those masterpieces.
Haydn is still intent on springing surprises; he characteristically ends each with vigorous, even military settings of the 'Dona nobis pacem' which foreshadow Beethoven' illustration of war in the Missa solemnis.
The recording is clear and well balanced, highlighting the pinpoint ensemble of Gardiner's choir and his excellent team of soloists.

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