Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'

Together with the Requiem, Mozart's C minor mass is one of the brilliant composer's great unfinished sacred works. The work combines monumental power, solemn spirituality and moving solo passages. This recording under the baton of Baroque and Classical expert Raymond Leppard has great expressive depth, and offers a truly legendary vocal ensemble featuring stars like Kiri Te Kanawa and Ileana Cotrubas.

Recorded live at the Leipzig Opera, Leipzig, June 2005.

Uwe Scholz is one of the most brilliant choreographic minds of his generation – he died in November 2004 at the age of 45.

The Great Mass is one of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical Choreographer - a truly impressive requiem; a choreographic revelation.

The full length Choreography takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor and adds other works by the same composer, such as the Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the motet Ave verum corpus as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and sequences from contemporary music by György Kurtág, Thomas Jahn and Arvo Pärt.

The Leipzig Ballet is regarded as one of the best ballet companies worldwide.

Picture format BD: 1080i Full HD - 16:9

Sounds formats BD: PCM 2.0, DTS-HD Master Audio Surround

Region code: All

Subtitles: English, French

Booklet notes: English, German, French

Running time: 130 mins

FSK: 0

This performance was recorded in the Trinity Church in Paris in December 2009 and 250 performers took part.

The renowned German Choir Kolner Kantorei celebrated it’s 40th anniversary in March 2006 and gave this concert in Limburg Cathedral. This live recording captures the excitement and sheer emotion of the occasion. Conducted by Volker Hempfling choir, soloists and orchestra all give glorious accounts of themselves in these two great choral masterpieces.

Sir Colin Davis' recordings of Mozart have stood the test of time and his readings of the composer's choral music are imposing, ennobling edifices of interpretation. The soloists in the Great Mass blend marvellously and the Ave Verum Corpus is given a reading of quiet intensity.