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Mozart: Mass in C Minor

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Composer), Raymond Leppard (Conductor), New Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), Format: Audio CD
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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 4.84 x 0.43 inches; 3.49 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ EMI Digital
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 077774738521
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ ADD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ EMI Digital
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000DNHF
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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MDLION
5.0 out of 5 stars A Majestic "Gloria in excelsis"
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2016
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Like Transcendental Thomist, I decided to get a copy of Mozart's Mass in C minor after I read Pope Francis' praise of it. I don't know a lot about classical music but have always been moved by Mozart. When I listen to classical music, I look to experience an uplift in spirit and a bit of peace. This CD gives me that for a reasonable price. When I first listened, I was only familiar with the "Kyrie", the opening track on this CD. I like it very much. I definitely experienced an uplift in spirit listening to the second track, a majestic version of the "Gloria in excelsis". I don't know who sings it (my unfamiliarity with the specifics of classical music) but I found track 11, "Et incarnates est", to be the most peaceful and beautiful track on the CD. There are many versions of this CD available, but this one with the cover picture of the interior of a monastery appealed to me the most for some reason.
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Daniel C. Harlow
5.0 out of 5 stars Cotrubas and Te Kanawa in their prime
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
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I have more than a dozen recordings of the C minor Mass in my library. This one is my favorite on modern instruments. Everything came together in the studio in 1973. Leppard's pacing is a bit slower than others, but it never drags. The New Philharmonia plays wonderfully, and the John Alldis Choir is commanding and responsive. Best of all, though, are the two sopranos. Both of them were in their prime: Ileana Cotrubas of the crystalline tone was 34; Kiri Te Kenawa of the rich timber was 29. Te Kenawa sang the soprano 1 part for Neville Marriner in 1993. My, what a difference twenty years makes. The sound of this recording is very good, though I can't discern a whole lot of difference between the initial CD release and its 2000 remastering. In any case, this is a very special treat.
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John W. Ziats
5.0 out of 5 stars The value of the product is excellent.
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2022
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It is a great performance done on period instruments. Sounds just like Mozart intended.
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Transcendental Thomist
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, one of Mozart's most brilliant unfinished works
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2013
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I picked up this CD after reading the "America" magazine interview where Pope Francis named it as one of his favorite musical compositions. Wow. I thought I had heard Mozart's best masses in the "Requiem" and other better-known works, but there's an intense brilliance in this unfinished mass in C minor that plumbs the depths of every human emotion. It's peaceful without fatiguing, nuanced without being incomprehensible, and powerful without being bombastic. This is Mozart for the ages. It may well be the most musically subtle, complex and satisfying Mozart mass I've ever heard. I particularly enjoy the bright sound of the C minor key and of this particular recording, which sounds acoustically rich and quite full in its range on this CD.
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Alberto E. Gongora
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a Masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2010
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I purchased this version of Mass in C Minor in Cassette form, back in 1985 approximately, while I was getting my Business Degree in San Antonio, Texas. I liked it so much, I decided to get the CD recently. This performance is truly a Masterpiece in my opinion. I'm glad to play it in my car on a CD this time. I highly recommend it. I own several W. A. Mozart pieces, and this is certainly one of my favorites.
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Meinhardt, Vienna
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best recordings available!
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015
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Beautiful recording with fantastic chorus and orchestra. Solist also first class. Early recording of Te Kanawa, I think her voice got later on
more beauty! But to recommend in any case. For my taste the Friscay CD with Stader is unbeatable, but due to all technique success it
could sound better - especially the chorus.
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musicfaninchicago
5.0 out of 5 stars Performance is better than the Mass
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2023
Artur Schnabel famously said he wanted to perform music that was greater than it could be performed.

This is a performance that in my opinion is greater than the underlying composition. But this is a great recording and it's one you should hear even if you're not a big fan of the underlying mass.

What makes the mass interesting is that it has a lot of flowery coloratura opera singing, especially for sopranos, that some felt was inappropriate for a church work. Well, you're not going to get two better flowery coloratura opera sopranos than these.

Btw, since amazon is a bit erratic about assigning cds and reviews, I'm talking about the Leppard/Cortubas/Te Kanawa recording.
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pekinman
5.0 out of 5 stars Buried treasure
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2011
Back in England in the 1970s and 1980s there were a number of fine, even great, recordings of Mozart made by Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Colin Davis and, last but not least, Raymond Leppard.

I've had this recording in my life since the early 1970s and have not encountered another performance of Mozart's great Mass in c that delights from start to finish as this one does. This masterpiece falls in the huge shadow of the famous Requiem in d. The c minor Mass being the moon to the d minor Requiem's sun.

On the surface of things, early listenings, this piece is relatively sunny in comparison to the sepulcher and dark Requiem composed at the tail end of Mozart's life. But this is merely reflected sunlight (the moon again). The solemnity and graceful beauty of it is brought to the fore by Raymond Leppard's unusually slow tempos, especially in the first aria for Soprano, sung seraphically here by Ileana Cotrubas and the Gloria which is very grave and stately. I compared this performance to that of Karajan's famous recording, also with a fine pair of sopranos (Barbara Hendricks and Janet Perry) and found the old meister's tempos to be leaning in the direction of the HIPster quickster crowd. But Karajan and Leppard are both damned by the adjective 'Romantic', which I think is mistaken identity for 'Beautiful.' No scraggy, vibratoless strings here, or tootling period wind instruments. Leppard and Karajan both use modern orchestras. I should add that Leppard's New Philharmonia need fear no negative comparisons from Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic. The John Alldis Choir acquits itself very well.

Suvi Raj Grubb produced this recording. He was the brightest light at EMI before it sank into mediocrity in the ensuing decades. He and his engineer, Robert Gooch, have come up with a perfect balance between soloists, chorus and orchestra. This at a time when EMI was taking a lot of flack for it's inferior sound quality, compared to the pristine DGG and Philips.

This Leppard recording is crowned by the sublime contribution of the young Kiri te Kanawa singing the 2nd soprano arias. She and Cotrubas provide a deal of magic to an already excellent proposition.

This Mass in c is the best out there, even edging out Karajan in this piece.
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Nora Tiedcke
5.0 out of 5 stars Wunderbare Musik mit guten Solist/inn/en
Reviewed in Germany on December 5, 2019
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Es ist eine ältere Aufnahme, wir lieben dieses Werk und hören auch die Solist/inn/en sehr gernr
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Danacobius
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning recording
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2017
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Mozart is something of a curate's egg for me but I bought this recording on the strength of the other reviews here; boy am I glad that I did. I am not a musician or academic and i'm somewhat ashamed to say I didn't know this opus. It is quite simply magnificent. If you love soaring voices, full choirs and burnished orchestration, do yourself a favour and buy this recording, you will not be disappointed.
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jazz
5.0 out of 5 stars Messe KV 427 Mozart
Reviewed in France on April 29, 2017
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Bonjour;le CD est un bon enregistrement au niveau de l'interprétation et de l'enregistrement réalisé en 1974.Depuis plusieurs chefs peuvent être préférés,Karajan ;;;mais la qualité des solistest est excellente.Mozart dans le REQUIEM est peut être plus poignant.
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Ian V.
5.0 out of 5 stars Mozart's scared music at its very best
Reviewed in Australia on June 10, 2019
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I was especially interested in hearing the soloists involved, particularly Ileana Cotrubas, who celebrated her eightieth birthday a few days ago, and was not disappointed.
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Michele
3.0 out of 5 stars Un prodotto molto British
Reviewed in Italy on March 2, 2015
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La stupefacente Grande Messa in do minore KV 427 è da sempre un arduo banco di prova per le due soliste femminili: quelle qui impegnate, Ileana Cotrubas e Kiri Te Kanawa (che all'epoca della registrazione era agli inizi di una splendida carriera internazionale), sono il meglio di quello che lo Star System poteva offrire nel 1974. In particolare la seconda, dotata di un timbro cremoso e di una voce le cui caratteristiche la rendevano adattissima al repertorio mozartiano (tanto che "la Kiri" avrebbe praticamente ripercorso le orme della Schwarzkopf cantando Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira, la Contessa e arrivando, come il suo modello, fino alla Marescialla dello straussiano Rosenkavalier) offre qui una prova maiuscola.
Questa edizione della Messa gode di grande fama nel mondo anglosassone, ma si sa che in fatto di gusti musicali gli inglesi (come i francesi, peraltro...) sono spesso vittime dello sciovinismo: qui abbiamo complessi e direttore che più British non si potrebbe, una grande cantante proveniente dal Commonwealth, un'altra molto amata al Covent Garden... E così il prodotto è splendidamente confezionato per lusingare i sudditi di Sua Maestà.
Ma se giudichiamo questa registrazione alla luce del risultato effettivo, direi che ci attestiamo solo su un livello di ottimo artigianato musicale. Trovo che Leppard sia stato un buon direttore (certamente non in questo repertorio, rischiosissimo per tutti): ma gli sono sempre mancati l'estro e la magia che fanno di un buon musicista un grande interprete. Qui, per esempio, è totalmente assente il mistero che Karajan (ma anche Fricsay, anche Gardiner) rende così bene nel Kyrie introduttivo, che prepara il terreno per il trionfale ingresso dei due soprani. E i tempi sono troppo, troppo lenti: la più operistica delle musiche mai dedicata al repertorio sacro viene resa con un passo che si addice piuttosto al Requiem Tedesco.
Splendido (ma meno di altre volte) il John Alldis Choir, e all'altezza dei loro (modesti) compiti il tenore Werner Krenn e il basso Hans Sotin.
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