WDR Radio Choir

WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen – Mozart: Complete Masses, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:33 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Classical
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The third volume of Mozart’s Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis , a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists that Mozart composed. The Missa Brevis in D major is a compact, economic setting conforming to the Archbishop’s dictates for shorter works. Its companion, the Missa Brevis in B flat major , though keenly responsive and beautiful, upset church musicians because it utilised a Parisian gavotte in the ‘Dona nobis pacem’ and ended Mozart’s employment on a provocative note.

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