Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Stripping the score right back, Suzuki makes musicianship dominate. He taps into the subtle arts of his fellow performers, especially Carolyn Sampson, to create a benchmark performance…Sampson... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2171
Label: BIS
Length: 71 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

January 2017

Disc of the month
Gramophone Magazine

December 2016

Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards

2017

Winner - Choral
Building a Library

September 2020

Recommended Recording

In stock

Usually despatched within 1 working day

Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'

Work length52:23

$14.00

$19.50

$26.25

Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Saitama Arts Theater, Concert Hall, Japan

Kyrie (Chorus, Soprano)

Track length7:36

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

Gloria: Gloria (Chorus)

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Laudamus te (Mezzo soprano)

Track length4:35

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Gratias (Chorus)

Track length1:20

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Domine (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano)

Track length2:38

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Qui tollis (Chorus)

Track length5:36

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Quoniam (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor)

Track length3:32

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Jesu Christe - Cum Santo Spiritu (Chorus)

Track length0:40

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu

Track length3:36

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Credo: Credo in unum Deum (Chorus)

Track length3:27

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Credo: Et incarnatus est (Soprano)

Track length8:14

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

Sanctus: Hosanna

Track length3:35

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Sanctus: Benedictus / Hosanna

Track length5:11

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K165

Work length18:47

$5.00

$6.50

$8.75

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Saitama Arts Theater, Concert Hall, Japan

Exsultate, jubilate

Track length4:21

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Fulgat amica dies

Track length0:45

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Tu virginum corona

Track length6:15

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Allelujah

Track length2:32

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Exsultate jubilate, K. 165: Aria (1779 revised version)

Track length4:54

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Following on from the 2015 release of Mozart’s Requiem, Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan have gone on to record the composer's Mass in C minor, K427 – the ‘Great Mass’. As the nickname indicates, it is a work of unusual proportions for a mass of the Classical period – or would have been so, had Mozart completed it. It is not known, for what occasion Mozart intended the work, but a letter to his father Leopold, dated 4 January 1783, indicates that he may have committed himself to writing it in connection with his marriage to Constanze and a planned visit to Salzburg. A performance of parts of the Mass did take place in Salzburg in October 1783, with Constanze performing the prominent soprano part. Two years later Mozart reused the music from the Kyrie and Gloria sections in the sacred cantata Davidde penitente, K 469, but the Mass itself was left incomplete. The present performance includes the sections completed by Mozart himself, as well as those sections, for which extensive sketches by Mozart provided a basis for completion (by Franz Beyer in 1989). Three of Suzuki’s soloists also took part in the recording of the Requiem, while the Dutch mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen makes her first appearance on BIS, shining in the aria ‘Laudamus te’. The disc closes with the celebrated cantata Exsultate, jubilate in which the soprano Carolyn Sampson glitters in the virtuosic solo part. As an appendix to the programme, she and the Bach Collegium Japan orchestra also repeats the initial aria, in a less well-known later version with a slightly different text and with flutes replacing the oboes of the original.

Reviews

January 2017

Stripping the score right back, Suzuki makes musicianship dominate. He taps into the subtle arts of his fellow performers, especially Carolyn Sampson, to create a benchmark performance…Sampson arabesques effortlessly up to the stratosphere in a slow dance with solo woodwinds…the three other vocal soloists equal Sampson’s elegance, forging a blissful euphony in their ensembles

December 2016

Period-instrument C minor Masses get better and better. ...The choir are well drilled and the two female soloists are matched as well as any on disc...Suzuki is no speed merchant, and maintains the through line in more strenuous movements.

10th January 2017

A tremendous achievement.

13th November 2016

The Mass survives as one of the great unfinished works. Suzuki’s famed period forces are significantly enlarged here (24 choristers), but are quite small for this work. His tempi are surprisingly spacious, but the dramatic impact of the double-choir Qui tollis in the Gloria comes across with full force.

Early Music Today September 2017

The Bach Collegium Japan’s performance is thrilling, dynamic and totally committed: they rise to the challenge of the music’s solemn splendour, yet remain fully alive to its episodes of typically Mozartian tenderness. While the choruses are sung magnificently, the jewel here is soprano Carolyn Sampson, in the Constanze role: her ‘Christie eleison’ breaks through the Kyrie’s dark gravitas like a burst of sunlight, and her ‘Et incarnatus est’, with flute, oboe and bassoon interlaced around her soaring, swooping vocal lines, is meltingly beautiful.

Classical Ear 27th March 2017

playing and singing are excellent throughout, especially from the vocal soloists, all giving florid and characterful performances. The Exsultate, Jubilate makes an ideal filler, not least for the further opportunity it provides to hear soprano Carolyn Sampson, here on excellent form. The SACD audio is atmospheric and clear, giving an ideal audio image for the orchestra and soloists

Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'

SACD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue